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Variation and change in the Swedish periphrastic passive: a constructional approach

Published:2023-12-18 Issue:0 Volume:0 Page:
ISSN:0165-4004
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Author:

Skrzypek Dominika¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Scandinavian Studies , Adam Mickiewicz University , Poznań , Poland

Abstract

Abstract This paper examines the development of the periphrastic passive voice construction in Swedish between 1300 and 1750, from the point of view of constructional change. The development involves the rise of a new auxiliary, bliva ‘remain’, originally a lexical loan from Middle Low German, which after a period of variation replaces the older auxiliary varda ‘become’. The findings reveal that the origins of the periphrastic passive construction may be found in mutative constructions with varda and adjectival complements, and the same development is then found with the loanword bliva, delayed by some hundred years. The results of quantitative analysis place the turning point in the development between 1450 and 1550. The paper relates the variation and change in passive auxiliaries to Diachronic Construction Grammar.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/flin-2023-2045/pdf

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