Variation in non-finiteness and temporality from a canonical perspective
In this paper, I take widely varying data on the occurrence and acceptability of overt future infinitives in German as evidence for their current emergence. Such a change, however, seems to conflict with a (tentative) prediction from Canonical Typology: Temporally marked infinitives are less canonical than temporally unmarked ones but change is expected to lead to the more canonical. The aim of the contribution is to save the prediction by bringing the canonical notion of non-finiteness closer to the original core of this framework.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Methodology and data discussion
- 2.1Finiteness in German
- 2.2Variation in German (non-)finiteness
- 3.Theoretical framework
- 4.Conclusion
- Abbreviations
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Acknowledgements
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Notes
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Corpora
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References
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Corpora
Used
WebCorp Live <[URL]> (last accessed for this study on 4 November 2014).
DeReKo = Deutsches Referenzkorpus (‘German reference corpus’) <[URL]> (last accessed for this study on 4 November 2014).
Mentioned
DWDS = Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (‘Digital dictionary of the German language’) <[URL]>
DTA = Deutsches Textarchiv (‘German text archive’) <[URL]>
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