Adverbs: Functional and diachronic aspects
Edited by Karin Pittner, Daniela Elsner and Fabian Barteld
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 170] 2015. v, 275 pp.
Karin Pittner
List of John Benjamins publications for which Karin Pittner plays a role.
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Subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2023 Chapter 4. Pragmatic subordination: Causal clauses with verb first position in German Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses: Synchronic and Diachronic Insights, Jędrzejowski, Łukasz and Constanze Fleczoreck (eds.), pp. 101–128 | Chapter
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
2015 Between inflection and derivation: Adverbial suffixes in English and German Adverbs: 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
2015 Introduction Adverbs: Functional and diachronic aspects, Pittner, Karin, Daniela Elsner and Fabian Barteld (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
2004 Where syntax and semantics meet: Adverbial positions in the German middle field Adverbials: The interplay between meaning, context, and syntactic structure, Austin, Jennifer R., Stefan Engelberg and Gisa Rauh (eds.), pp. 253–287 | Article