Kaufmann Göz
German Department, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
J Comp Ger Linguist. 2022;25(3):333-384. doi: 10.1007/s10828-022-09137-9. Epub 2022 Dec 12.
This paper analyzes the morphosyntactic variation in past counterfactuals with modal verbs in Pomerano, a Low German variety spoken in Brazil. The variation concerns (i) the highest verb (temporal auxiliary or modal verb), (ii) the morphological form of the temporal auxiliary (blocking of tense and/or person agreement), (iii) the frequently unexpected position of the modal verb (verb clusters in the CP-domain), and (iv) the overall number of verbs (syntactic doubling and/or PF-insertion). Analyzing more than 6,000 translated sentences, scope rivalry between the temporal auxiliary and the modal verb proves to be the major catalyst of an intriguing instance of language variation and change. The derivation of the extant variants grants us a privileged view of the clausal architecture of Pomerano-including cases of derivational misfiring-as well as of more general processes of clause formation.
本文分析了巴西南部低地德语波美拉诺语中带有情态动词的过去虚拟语气中的形态句法变异。这种变异涉及：（i）最高级动词（时态助动词或情态动词）；（ii）时态助动词的形态形式（时态和/或人称一致的阻塞）；（iii）情态动词经常出现的意外位置（CP域中的动词簇）；以及（iv）动词的总数（句法重复和/或PF插入）。通过分析6000多个翻译句子，事实证明，时态助动词和情态动词之间的辖域竞争是语言变异和变化中一个有趣实例的主要催化剂。现存变体的推导使我们能够特别了解波美拉诺语的小句结构——包括派生失误的情况——以及更一般的小句形成过程。
