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Past participles of strong verbs in Jutland Danish: A real-time study of regionalization and standardization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2012

Torben Juel Jensen  and
Marie Maegaard
Torben Juel Jensen
Affiliation:
Department of Scandinavian Studies and Linguistics & LANCHART, University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 120, DK 2300 Kbh. S.tjuelj@hum.ku.dk
Marie Maegaard
Affiliation:
Department of Scandinavian Research & LANCHART, University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 136, DK 2300 Kbh. S.mamae@hum.ku.dk
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Abstract

The article presents a real-time study of standardization and regionalization processes with respect to the use of past participles of strong verbs in the western part of Denmark. Analyses of a large corpus of recordings of informants from two localities show that the use of the dialectal en form of the past participle suffix has been in decline during the last 30 years. The en forms are replaced by three other forms, one of which is (partly) dialectal, one regional and one standard Danish. The study indicates that a regionalization process has taken place prior to the time period studied, but that it has now been overtaken by a Copenhagen-based standardization process. The study also shows interesting differences between the two localities, arguably due to the geographical location and size, and to the status of the different participle forms in the traditional local dialects.

Keywords

Danishdialectfrequency effectsJutlandlanguage changemorphologypast participlesreal-time studiesregionalizationstandardization
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Research Article
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , October 2012 , pp. 169 - 195
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Copyright © Nordic Association of Linguistics 2012

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