Variation in R-Pronouns in Moroccan and Turkish Ethnolectal Dutch and What It Tells Us

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7903752
AutoresFrans Hinskens (0000-0002-0572-154X, Meertens Institute, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen7
Número4
Páginas259
Fecha de publicación2022-10-11
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguages (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X
EditorialMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/languages7040259
OpenAlexW4304175281
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas22

R-pronouns are R-words which feature as pronouns in prepositional phrases (among other things). They are common in Dutch and German (e.g., D. daarmee, G. damit, lit. ‘therewith’, ‘with that’, D. erna, G. danach, lit. ‘hereafter’, ‘after this’). This contribution concerns a quantitative study of variation in R-pronouns in modern Moroccan and Turkish ethnolectal Dutch. In conversational speech of bilingual speakers of Moroccan Dutch, Turkish Dutch and two groups of monolingual ‘white’ Dutch (one of them being the control group), R-pronouns appear to vary in three dimensions: the R-pronoun can or cannot be realized (with the latter option violating the norms of Dutch); if it is realized, the R-pronoun and the preposition can or cannot be split (both options conform the norms of Standard Dutch), if the R-pronoun is not realized, then either another pronoun is used instead or there is no substitute (both variants violate the norms of Dutch). For all three dimensions of variation, statistical analyses were carried out, starting from a total of 1160 realizations by 52 representatives of the four groups. The analyses involved three internal parameters and four social ones. The results serve to answer research questions concerning the origin of the variation, its place in the verbal repertoires and the social spread of the variation

German · Linguistics · Object pronoun · Personal pronoun · Pronoun · Reflexive pronoun · Subject pronoun · Turkish · Variation (astronomy · Gender Studies in Language · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy · Psychology