Frames change in language contact environments. A case study of schleichen ('to sneak') and kommen ('to come')
- Based on the empirical data of 97 fourth-graders from three districts of Braunschweig in Germany, this paper investigates the possibility of changing semantic frames in multilingual communities. The focus of study is the verb field of self-motion. In a free-sorting task involving 52 verbs, Turkish-speaking students, in particular, placed the verbs schleichen (‘to sneak’) and kommen (‘to come’) in the same group. When explaining the perceived similarity they also used the word schleichen (‘to sneak’), in a specific grammatical construction that is not found in Standard German. This paper suggests that semantic frames may change along with grammatical constructions when typologically distinct languages come into close contact.
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| Author: | David Hünlich |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-84535 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.24.09hun |
| ISBN: | 978-90-272-0171-3 |
| Parent Title (English): | Constructions in contact. Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages |
| Series (Serial Number): | Constructional approaches to language (24) |
| Publisher: | Benjamins |
| Place of publication: | Amsterdam u.a. |
| Editor: | Hans Christian Boas |
| Translator: | Steffen Höder |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2018 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2019/01/29 |
| Publicationstate: | Zweitveröffentlichung |
| Publicationstate: | Postprint |
| Reviewstate: | (Verlags)-Lektorat |
| Tag: | frame semantics; free-sorting; language contact; migration linguistics; semantic change |
| GND Keyword: | Bedeutungswandel; Frame-Semantik; Sprachkontakt; Verb |
| First Page: | 277 |
| Last Page: | 310 |
| Note: | This article is under copyright of Benjamins. The publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint the material in any form. |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Grammatikforschung |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Semantik |
| Program areas: | Zentrale Forschung |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |