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DESCRIPTION:German distinguishes between two conjugation classes. While s
 trong verbs like "lesen" 'to read' typically show a root vowel change (a
 blaut) in the synthetic past tense and no overt suffixal realizations of
  past tense and agreement for the first/third person singular ("er/sie l
 as")\, the past tense forms of weak verbs like "lernen" 'to learn' surfa
 ce with the suffix -t for past tense and -e for first/third person singu
 lar agreement ("er/sie lernte") (Wöllstein\, 2022).\n\nIn Early New High
  German (Dammel\, 2011\; Wegera\, 2023) as well as in child speech of ch
 ildren acquiring German (Petrova\, 2016)\, forms are attested that mix p
 roperties of both conjugation classes: Past tense forms like "nahme" or 
 "fande" surface with a root vowel change and no past tense suffix like s
 trong verbs but with the overt agreement exponent -e of weak verbs. \n\n
 This talk discusses implications for morphological theory within the fra
 mework of Distributed Morphology (Halle and Marantz\, 1993\; Embick\, 20
 15\; Alexiadou et al.\, to appear) that come from these forms. The analy
 sis is based on the concept of secondary feature negligence by children 
 from the analysis of Hein et al. (2024\; 2025) on English past tense "er
 rors". Children's representations of secondary features are unstable and
  they occasionally fail to consider them during Vocabulary Insertion. Th
 is concept can be carried over to diachronic change and can - together w
 ith assumptions about the directionality of change - account for the att
 ested forms and rule out unattested combinations of properties of strong
  and weak verbs in one form. Further implications for the modeling of ro
 ot vowel changes and conjugation classes within Distributed Morphology w
 ill be discussed.
URL:programm.stuts79.de/events/1502.html
SUMMARY:Conjugation class mixing in the diachrony of German
ORGANIZER:stuts79
LOCATION:stuts79 - HDH Halle 199 (4)
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