Theresa Biberauer

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Theresa Biberauer plays a role.

Titles

Into adpositions: New formal perspectives on the structure of the PP and its variation

Edited by Víctor Acedo-Matellán, Theresa Biberauer, Jaume Mateu and Anna Pineda

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 21:1 (2021) v, 279 pp.

Subjects Generative linguistics | Typology

The Limits of Syntactic Variation

Edited by Theresa Biberauer

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 132] 2008. vii, 521 pp.

Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

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Acedo-Matellán, Víctor, Theresa Biberauer, Jaume Mateu and Anna Pineda 2021 Into adpositions: New formal perspectives on the structure of the PP and its variation Into adpositions: New formal perspectives on the structure of the PP and its variation, Acedo-Matellán, Víctor, Theresa Biberauer, Jaume Mateu and Anna Pineda (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Introduction

Biberauer, Theresa 2018 Less is More: On the Tolerance Principle as a manifestation of Maximize Minimal Means Epistemological issue with keynote article “A Formalist Perspective on Language Acquisition” by Charles Yang, pp. 707–711 | Commentary

Biberauer, Theresa 2017 Chapter 5. Optional V2 in modern Afrikaans: Probing a Germanic peculiarity Word Order Change in Acquisition and Language Contact: Essays in honour of Ans van Kemenade, Los, Bettelou and Pieter de Haan (eds.), pp. 79–99 | Chapter

This chapter investigates an embedded V2 option that features prominently in modern spoken Afrikaans, while being either completely barred or heavily restricted in other V2 languages: embedded wh-V2. This option, which is available in all wh-complements, freely alternates with its prescriptively… read more

Biberauer, Theresa and Ian Roberts 2017 Chapter 4. Conditional inversion and types of parametric change Word Order Change in Acquisition and Language Contact: Essays in honour of Ans van Kemenade, Los, Bettelou and Pieter de Haan (eds.), pp. 57–77 | Chapter

We document a case of change from a mesoparameter to a microparameter to a nanoparameter involving Conditional Inversion (CI) in English. What has changed since Old English is the range of elements affected by T-to-C movement, and how it relates to other forms of head-movement into the C-field. In… read more

Biberauer, Theresa and Ian Roberts 2016 Parameter typology from a diachronic perspective: The case of Conditional Inversion Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation, Bidese, Ermenegildo, Federica Cognola and Manuela Caterina Moroni (eds.), pp. 259–292 | Article

This paper considers the question of the nature of parameters from a diachronic perspective, focusing in particular on the case of Conditional Inversion (CI) in the history of English. The objective is to show that it is meaningful to think of parameters and their synchronic robustness and… read more

Biberauer, Theresa 2012 Competing reinforcements: When languages opt out of Jespersen’s Cycle Historical Linguistics 2009: Selected papers from the 19th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Nijmegen, 10-14 August 2009, Kemenade, Ans M.C. van and Nynke de Haas (eds.), pp. 1–30 | Article

Drawing on recent developments in Afrikaans and Brazilian Portuguese, this paper proposes a syntactic constraint, alongside previously identified phonological and pragmatic ones, on progression in Jespersen’s (1917) Cycle/ JC. In particular, it argues that languages which draw on structurally high… read more

Biberauer, Theresa, Michelle Sheehan and Glenda Newton 2010 Impossible changes and impossible borrowings: The Final-over-Final Constraint Continuity and Change in Grammar, Breitbarth, Anne, Christopher Lucas, Sheila Watts and David Willis (eds.), pp. 35–60 | Article

This chapter examines the predictions of Biberauer, Holmberg & Roberts’s (2007, 2008) Final-over-Final Constraint/FOFC for grammatical change and borrowing. As a putatively invariant syntactic principle, FOFC excludes the synchronic possibility of head-final phrases dominating categorially alike… read more

Biberauer, Theresa 2009 Chapter 5. Jespersen off course? The case of contemporary Afrikaans negation Cyclical Change, Gelderen, Elly van (ed.) | Article

Biberauer, Theresa and Ian Roberts 2008 Cascading parameter changes: Internally-driven change in Middle and Early Modern English Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal papers, Eythórsson, Thórhallur (ed.), pp. 79–113 | Article

Biberauer, Theresa and Ian Roberts 2006 Loss of residual “head final” orders and remnant fronting in Late Middle English: Causes and consequences Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax: From Afrikaans to Zurich German, Hartmann, Jutta M. and László Molnárfi (eds.), pp. 263–297 | Article

Biberauer, Theresa and Marc Richards 2006 True optionality: When the grammar doesn’t mind Minimalist Essays, Boeckx, Cedric (ed.), pp. 35–67 | Article

Richards, Marc and Theresa Biberauer 2005 Explaining Expl The Function of Function Words and Functional Categories, Dikken, Marcel den and Christina Tortora (eds.), pp. 115–153 | Article