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.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2023 |
Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
Pages | 112-118 |
Number of pages | 7 |
ISBN (Print) | 9798891760431 |
Publication status | Published - 6-Dec-2023 |