Complementizer Agreement in den Dialekten Österreichs. Eine variationslinguistische Perspektivierung

Vergeiner, Philip C. und Bülow, Lars (2021): Complementizer Agreement in den Dialekten Österreichs. Eine variationslinguistische Perspektivierung. In: Wiener Linguistische Gazette, Bd. 2021, Nr. 89: S. 107-134

Abstract

This paper investigates Complementizer Agreement (CA) in the dialects of Austria from a variationist perspective. Data are based on the corpus of the project »Variation and change of dialect varieties in Austria (in real and apparent time)«. Altogether, dialectal translations of 163 participants (recruited from two age-groups) from 40 locations are analysed in this apparent-time-study. Results show that the findings by Lenz et al. (2014) and Fingerhuth & Lenz (2020) on CA in Austrian dialects can be both confirmed and refined. It becomes apparent that CA is particularly widespread in Central and South-Central Bavarian dialects, while it is less frequent in South Bavarian and completely absent in Alemannic dialects. Furthermore, CA occurs more frequently with 2 PL than with 2 SG Austrian dialects. Also, the frequency of CA varies depending on the respective complementizer.Moreover, results yield a positive correlation between CA, clitization and pro-drop. We argue that this is due to the pronominal origin of CA. Furthermore, since these are mostly zero-clitics, pro-drop can be increasingly observed in the CA-area. Nonetheless, CA is not a precondition for pro-drop in subordinate clauses in the investigated dialects.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Keywords: complementizer agreement ; pro-drop ; clitics ; German in Austria ; variationist linguistics
• Fakultät: Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften > Department 1
• Themengebiete: 400 Sprache > 430 Deutsch, germanische Sprachen allgemein
• ISSN: 2224-1876