Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Professor Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld’s Publications
- Tabula gratulatoria
- Bilingual Learners’ Dictionaries in the Lexicographic Landscape
- Feel Free To… A Comparative Study of Phraseological Borrowing
- What’s in a Name? Does the Proliferation of Pejorative Terms Such as Denglis(c)h and Similar Items in German Attest to Neo-puristic Attitudes Towards Anglicisms?
- English in Confrontation with Languages and Cultural Heritage of Asian Countries: Promotion or Threat?
- Slavic Dirъ in the Arab-Muslim Geographical Literature
- Linguistic Landscapes: The Multilingual Cityscape of Kraków
- On Russenorsk -om in Particular and on Etymology and Creolistics in General
- Ponglish in the British Isles: A Few Sociolinguistic Remarks on the Issue
- Language Contact and Identity: Three Possible Scenarios
- European Echoes of English, South African Style?
- Open Spelling of Nominal Compounds in Contemporary Swedish and the Question of English Influence
- To -s or Not to -s? Plural Marking on Anglicisms in Spoken German
- Classification of Pseudo-anglicisms in Japanese
- Underdeterminacy, Indeterminacy and Speaker’s Intentions
- Globalisation and the Linguistic and Cultural Changes in Poland Within the Last Seventy Years
- Playful Pleas(e): Formal and Functional Adaptations of English Please in Serbian
- Gustaf Peringer’s Karaim Biblical Material Revisited. A Linguistic Commentary on a Text Sample from 1691
- Yiddish Borrowings in American English: Slavic Connections
- Linguistic Trespassing: Observations on Multilingual Europe
- Why is He Who Tells the Truth Chased Out of Nine Villages: The Number Nine in Turkish Language and Culture
- English Cyber- Words Across European Languages
- Beliefs and Customs in the Phrasematics of the Podtatrze (Sub-Tatra) Region
- Graphic and Orthotypographic Aspects of Anglicisms in the Field of Sports
- Language Contact and Null Subjects: The Past Tense in Kashubian
- Slavic Languages in Contact, 3: The Methodological Importance of Balkan Slavic for Turkish Historical Dialectology, or Croatian and Serbian neimar, Bulgarian maimar(in) ‘Chief Architect’
- Indirect Language Contact and the Celtic Elements in Polish
- (I’m) Just Saying and (Tak) Tylko Mówię: A Parallel Corpus Study
- News on Instagram: The Use of the Social Medium by The Guardian and Gazeta Wyborcza
- Vowel Adaptation in English Words in Slovak
- Foreign Influences in Polish Dialectal Plant Names
- Hipsterskie fashionistki keżualowo drinkują na klabingu w Lądku… English Borrowings in Informal Polish and Their Lexical Fields
- On Maximality Modification in the Psych Domain: Evidence from Polish
- Formal Variance in Polish Adjectival Anglicisms
Language Contact and Null Subjects: The Past Tense in Kashubian
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 October 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Professor Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld’s Publications
- Tabula gratulatoria
- Bilingual Learners’ Dictionaries in the Lexicographic Landscape
- Feel Free To… A Comparative Study of Phraseological Borrowing
- What’s in a Name? Does the Proliferation of Pejorative Terms Such as Denglis(c)h and Similar Items in German Attest to Neo-puristic Attitudes Towards Anglicisms?
- English in Confrontation with Languages and Cultural Heritage of Asian Countries: Promotion or Threat?
- Slavic Dirъ in the Arab-Muslim Geographical Literature
- Linguistic Landscapes: The Multilingual Cityscape of Kraków
- On Russenorsk -om in Particular and on Etymology and Creolistics in General
- Ponglish in the British Isles: A Few Sociolinguistic Remarks on the Issue
- Language Contact and Identity: Three Possible Scenarios
- European Echoes of English, South African Style?
- Open Spelling of Nominal Compounds in Contemporary Swedish and the Question of English Influence
- To -s or Not to -s? Plural Marking on Anglicisms in Spoken German
- Classification of Pseudo-anglicisms in Japanese
- Underdeterminacy, Indeterminacy and Speaker’s Intentions
- Globalisation and the Linguistic and Cultural Changes in Poland Within the Last Seventy Years
- Playful Pleas(e): Formal and Functional Adaptations of English Please in Serbian
- Gustaf Peringer’s Karaim Biblical Material Revisited. A Linguistic Commentary on a Text Sample from 1691
- Yiddish Borrowings in American English: Slavic Connections
- Linguistic Trespassing: Observations on Multilingual Europe
- Why is He Who Tells the Truth Chased Out of Nine Villages: The Number Nine in Turkish Language and Culture
- English Cyber- Words Across European Languages
- Beliefs and Customs in the Phrasematics of the Podtatrze (Sub-Tatra) Region
- Graphic and Orthotypographic Aspects of Anglicisms in the Field of Sports
- Language Contact and Null Subjects: The Past Tense in Kashubian
- Slavic Languages in Contact, 3: The Methodological Importance of Balkan Slavic for Turkish Historical Dialectology, or Croatian and Serbian neimar, Bulgarian maimar(in) ‘Chief Architect’
- Indirect Language Contact and the Celtic Elements in Polish
- (I’m) Just Saying and (Tak) Tylko Mówię: A Parallel Corpus Study
- News on Instagram: The Use of the Social Medium by The Guardian and Gazeta Wyborcza
- Vowel Adaptation in English Words in Slovak
- Foreign Influences in Polish Dialectal Plant Names
- Hipsterskie fashionistki keżualowo drinkują na klabingu w Lądku… English Borrowings in Informal Polish and Their Lexical Fields
- On Maximality Modification in the Psych Domain: Evidence from Polish
- Formal Variance in Polish Adjectival Anglicisms
Summary
Introduction
While the process of lexeme borrowing is possibly the most salient aspect of contact-related language change, for example as documented over the years in Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld’s work for contact between English and Polish (see, e.g., Mańczak-Wohlfeld 1994, 1995, 2006), interesting questions arise also in the domain of structural change. In addition to direct borrowing of a grammatical structure, grammatical change can also be viewed as a consequence of one of two or more alternative structures available in a language gaining prominence, for example due to a shift in pragmatic effects associated with the alternatives (see Torres Cacoullos and Travis 2018 and references therein). As discussed extensively in Torres Cacoullos and Travis (2018), a case in point is the increase in use of overt pronominal subjects in so-called null subject (pro-drop) languages such as Spanish under the influence of a non-pro-drop language such as English. Generally speaking, languages of the former type allow for phonetically null arguments in certain environments, as in the Spanish example in (1), whereas languages of the latter type usually do not, as (2) illustrates.
A number of studies have investigated the question whether the use of non-pro-drop languages by bilinguals whose other language is a pro-drop language shifts the latter more towards the non-pro-drop pattern (see Torres Cacoullos and Travis 2018). One of the intriguing research areas within the field of contact-induced language change which have been viewed against this background is the expression of the past tense in Kashubian, which, officially, is a regional language of Poland. As I show in greater detail in Section 2, four options are available in the system for this purpose. The lexical verb appears either in the so-called l-participle form or the n/t-participle form. The type of variation of interest here is observed with respect to the (fusional) expression of the person and number features of the subject, which can be reflected in an overt pronoun, the auxiliary bëc ‘be’ or miec ‘have’, or a person/number clitic attached to the dummy element że. The focus of this paper is on the first of these past structures, as it is this option which is sometimes attributed to contact-induced change in the grammar of subject expression, in particular the contact between Kashubian and German.
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- Languages in Contact and ContrastA Festschrift for Professor Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld on the Occasion of Her 70th Birthday, pp. 391 - 406Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2020