Innovative constructions in Dutch Turkish: An assessment of ongoing contact-induced change*.
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| Title: | Innovative constructions in Dutch Turkish: An assessment of ongoing contact-induced change*. |
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| Authors: | A. SEZA DO?RU?Z1, AD BACKUS1 |
| Source: | Bilingualism: Language & Cognition. Jan2009, Vol. 12 Issue 1, p41-63. 23p. |
| Subject Terms: | *Bilingualism, *Lexicology, Linguistic analysis, Dutch people, Turkish language |
| Geographic Terms: | Türkiye, Netherlands |
| Abstract: | Turkish as spoken in the Netherlands (NL-Turkish) sounds ?different? (unconventional) to Turkish speakers in Turkey (TR-Turkish). We claim that this is due to structural contact-induced change that is, however, located within specific lexically complex units copied from Dutch. This article investigates structural change in NL-Turkish through analyses of spoken corpora collected in the bilingual Turkish community in the Netherlands and in a monolingual community in Turkey. The analyses reveal that at the current stage of contact, NL-Turkish is not copying Dutch syntax as such, but rather translates lexically complex individual units into Turkish. Perceived semantic equivalence between Dutch units and their Turkish equivalents plays a crucial role in this translation process. Counter to expectations, the TR-Turkish data also contained unconventional units, though they differed in type, and were much less frequent than those in NL-Turkish. We conclude that synchronic variation in individual NL-Turkish units can contain the seeds of future syntactic change, which will only be visible after an increase in the type and token frequency of the changing units. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: | Education Research Complete |
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