Karin Pittner

List of John Benjamins publications for which Karin Pittner plays a role.

Title

Adverbs: Functional and diachronic aspects

Edited by Karin Pittner, Daniela Elsner and Fabian Barteld

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 170] 2015. v, 275 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The article deals with a special type of causal clauses in German which exhibits the properties of verb-first position, an obligatory modal particle doch and obligatory postposition. It has often been noted that these clauses are neither clearly subordinated nor coordinated. Syntactic tests show… read more
Pittner, Karin 2015 Between inflection and derivation: Adverbial suffixes in English and GermanAdverbs: Functional and diachronic aspects, Pittner, Karin, Daniela Elsner and Fabian Barteld (eds.), pp. 133–156 | Article
The question of whether adverbial suffixes are derivational or inflectional elements has been controversially discussed in recent decades. Based on general differences between inflection and derivation, we argue that the English adverbial suffix -ly has more characteristics of an inflectional than… read more
Pittner, Karin, Daniela Elsner and Fabian Barteld 2015 IntroductionAdverbs: Functional and diachronic aspects, Pittner, Karin, Daniela Elsner and Fabian Barteld (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
Pittner, Karin 2004 Where syntax and semantics meet: Adverbial positions in the German middle fieldAdverbials: The interplay between meaning, context, and syntactic structure, Austin, Jennifer R., Stefan Engelberg and Gisa Rauh (eds.), pp. 253–287 | Article