Synchronic variation and loss of case
Formal and informal language in a Dutch corpus of 17th-century Amsterdam texts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20344785 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fred Weerman (0000-0001-8732-8524, University of Amsterdam), Mike Olson (Utrecht University), Robert Cloutier, Robert A Cloutier (University of Amsterdam) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 353-381 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Diachronica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0176-4225 • E-ISSN: 1569-9714 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/dia.30.3.03wee |
| OpenAlex | W2115002139 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 6 |
A bias towards formal texts obscures our view of language change and gives a misleading impression of actual developments if ‘changes from below’ are in conflict with ‘changes from above,’ resulting from norms that are visible in particular in formal language. A corpus of 17th-century Amsterdam texts with varying levels of formality is assembled to study the loss of genitive and dative case-marking in Dutch. These results are compared with the use of present participle constructions, which serve as an extra variable to gauge how formal a text is. We argue that nominal case-marking no longer existed in informal language in 17th-century Amsterdam and that the genitive became a feature of formal norms and was hence subject to pressures from above
Dative case · Formality · Genitive case · Linguistics · Participle · Verb · Computer Science · Gender Studies in Language · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2022 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |