TY  - GEN
A1  - Tristram, Hildegard L.C.
T1  - Wie weit sind die inselkeltischen Sprachen (und das Englische) analytisiert?
T1  - How far have the Insular Celtic languages (and the English language) been analyticised?
N2  - Der gemeinsame Wandel der inselkeltischen Sprachen wie auch des Englischen vom vorwiegend synthetischen Typus zum vorwiegend analytischen Typus läßt sich vermutlich auf einen ca. 1500 Jahre dauernden intensiven Sprachenkontakt zwischen diesen Sprachen zurückführen. Heute ist das Englische die analytischste Sprache der Britischen Inseln und Irlands, gefolgt vom Walisischen, Bretonischen und Irischen. Letzteres ist von den genannten Sprachen noch am weitesten morphologisch komplex.
N2  - I discuss the joint shift of the Insular Celtic languages and of the English language from, typologically speaking, predominantly synthetic languages c. 1500 years ago to predominantly analytical languages today. The demise of the inflectional morphology is most advanced in Present Day English. Welsh follows suit. Then come Breton and Irish. Intensive linguistic interaction across the boundaries of the Germanic and the Insular Celtic languages are proposed to have been instrumental for this type of linguistic convergence.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 35 
KW  - Irisch
KW  - Walisisch
KW  - Bretonisch
KW  - Englisch
KW  - Sprachwandel
KW  - Sprachkontakt
KW  - Sprachkonvergenz
KW  - Typologie
KW  - Morphologie
KW  - Komplexität
KW  - Quantifizierun
KW  - Irish
KW  - Welsh
KW  - Breton
KW  - English
KW  - Language Change
KW  - Language Contact
KW  - Convergence
KW  - Morphology
KW  - Complexity
KW  - Quantification
Y1  - 2009
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-41251
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Coetzee-Van Rooy, Susan
A1  - Peters, Arne
T1  - A portrait-corpus study of language attitudes towards Afrikaans and English
JF  - Language matters : studies in the languages of Africa
N2  - Language portraits are useful instruments to elicit speakers' reflections on the languages in their repertoires. In this study, we implement a "portrait-corpus approach" (Peters and Coetzee-Van Rooy 2020) to investigate the conceptualisations of the languages Afrikaans and English in 105 language portraits. In this approach, we use participants' reflections about their placement of the two languages on a human silhouette as a linguistic corpus. Relying on quantitative and qualitative analyses using WordSmith, Statistica and Atlas.ti, our study shows that Afrikaans is mainly conceptualised as a language that is located in more peripheral areas of the body (for example, the hands and feet) and, hence, is perceived as less important in participants' repertoires. The central location of English in the head reveals its status as an important language in the participants' multilingual repertoires. We argue that these conceptualisations of Afrikaans and English provide additional insight into the attitudes towards these languages in South Africa.
KW  - language attitudes
KW  - language portraits
KW  - portrait-corpus approach
KW  - multilingualism
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Afrikaans
KW  - English
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2021.1942167
SN  - 1022-8195
SN  - 1753-5395
VL  - 52
IS  - 2
SP  - 3
EP  - 28
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -