Grammatical innovations in German in multilingual Namibia: the expanded use of linking elements and gehen ‘go’ as a future auxiliary

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dc.contributor.authorShah, Sheena
dc.contributor.authorZimmer, Christian
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-30T11:02:00Z
dc.date.available2024-07-30T11:02:00Z
dc.date.issued2023-08-14
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, we provide an overview of the history and sociolinguistic setting of Germans and German in Namibia, which serves as a backdrop for our discussion of two grammatical innovations in Namibian German. German has been actively used in Namibia since the 1880s, having been brought to the country through colonization, and it remains linguistically vital today. Via a questionnaire study, we investigate the expanded use of two grammatical innovations in Namibian German, namely, i) linking elements and ii) gehen as a future auxiliary. We explore various factors that could have contributed to the emergence of these innovations in order to better understand the dynamics of German in multilingual Namibia.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2003/42623
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-24459
dc.language.isoende
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal of Germanic linguistics;35(3)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/de
dc.subjectGermanen
dc.subjectNamibiaen
dc.subjectlinking elementsen
dc.subjectfuture tenseen
dc.subjectlanguage contacten
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dc.subject.ddc400
dc.subject.ddc430
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dc.titleGrammatical innovations in German in multilingual Namibia: the expanded use of linking elements and gehen ‘go’ as a future auxiliaryen
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eldorado.secondarypublication.primarycitationShah S, Zimmer C. Grammatical Innovations in German in Multilingual Namibia: The Expanded Use of Linking Elements and Gehen ‘Go’ as a Future Auxiliary. Journal of Germanic Linguistics. 2023;35(3):205-265. doi:10.1017/S1470542722000150de
eldorado.secondarypublication.primaryidentifierhttps://doi.org/10.1017/S1470542722000150de

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