Publication: Reichenbach meets underspecification
Reichenbach meets underspecification
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Seiler, G., & Weber, T. (2022). Reichenbach meets underspecification. Journal of Historical Linguistics, 12(1), 108–166. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.20002.sei
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This paper investigates the long-term diachronic development of the perfect and preterite tenses in German and provides a novel analysis by supplementing classical theory of tense by the notion of underspecification. Based on a newly compiled parallel corpus spanning the entire documented history of German, we show that the development in question is cyclic: It starts out with only one tense form (preterite) compatible with both current relevance and narrative past readings in (early) Old High German and, via three intermediate stage
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- Seiler, Guido
- Weber, Thilo
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Seiler, G., & Weber, T. (2022). Reichenbach meets underspecification. Journal of Historical Linguistics, 12(1), 108–166. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.20002.sei
