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.
Theresa Biberauer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Theresa Biberauer plays a role.
Titles
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
2009 Chapter 5. Jespersen off course? The case of contemporary Afrikaans negation Cyclical Change, Gelderen, Elly van (ed.), pp. 91–132 | Article
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
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
2006 True optionality: When the grammar doesn’t mind Minimalist Essays, Boeckx, Cedric (ed.), pp. 35–67 | Article
2005 Explaining Expl The Function of Function Words and Functional Categories, Dikken, Marcel den and Christina Tortora (eds.), pp. 115–153 | Article