Changing usage of Low Saxon auxiliary and modal verbs

Janine Siewert, Martijn Wieling, Yves Scherrer


Abstract
We investigate the usage of auxiliary and modal verbs in Low Saxon dialects from both Germany and the Netherlands based on word vectors, and compare developments in the modern language to Middle Low Saxon. Although most of these function words have not been affected by lexical replacement, changes in usage that likely at least partly result from contact with the state languages can still be observed.
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2023.lchange-1.12
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Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change
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December
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2023
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Singapore
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Nina Tahmasebi, Syrielle Montariol, Haim Dubossarsky, Andrey Kutuzov, Simon Hengchen, David Alfter, Francesco Periti, Pierluigi Cassotti
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LChange
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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112–118
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.lchange-1.12
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.lchange-1.12
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Janine Siewert, Martijn Wieling, and Yves Scherrer. 2023. Changing usage of Low Saxon auxiliary and modal verbs. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, pages 112–118, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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