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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462887103321

Titolo

Language variation -- European perspectives IV [[electronic resource] ] : selected papers from the Sixth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 6), Freiburg, June 2011 / / edited by Peter Auer, Javier Caro Reina, Göz Kaufmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013

ISBN

90-272-7211-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Collana

Studies in language variation, , 1872-9592 ; ; v. 14

Altri autori (Persone)

AuerPeter <1954->

ReinaJavier Caro

KaufmannGöz <1965->

Disciplina

417

Soggetti

Language and languages - Variation

Electronic books.

Europe Languages Variation Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

In recent years a new form has emerged in the paradigm of the indefinite article, the so-called "extended short form" nen (Vogel 2006) as in: Ich hab' nen Mann gesehen. As little is known about the origin of this form (when was it used first, by whom, and in what contexts?), this paper will trace the history of nen using several corpora of colloquial German that cover language use in the 1960's, 1970's and 2000's (Pfeffer-Corpus, Freiburger-Corpus, Dialogstrukturen-Corpus, Emergency-Call-Corpus). Quantitative analyses reveal distinct patterns of variation, which indicate