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

TY - JOUR

T1 - Past participles in Jutland Danish

T2 - A real time study of regionalization and standardization

AU - Jensen, Torben Juel

AU - Maegaard, Marie

PY - 2012/10

Y1 - 2012/10

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - Danish

KW - dialect

KW - frequency effects

KW - Jutland

KW - language change

KW - morphology

KW - participles

KW - real time studies

KW - regionalization

KW - standardization

U2 - 10.1017/S0332586512000182

DO - 10.1017/S0332586512000182

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0332-5865

VL - 35

SP - 169

EP - 195

JO - Nordic Journal of Linguistics

JF - Nordic Journal of Linguistics

IS - 2

ER -