Rebecca Posner
List of John Benjamins publications for which Rebecca Posner plays a role.
Articles
1993 Latin to Romance (again!): change or genesis? Historical Linguistics 1991: Papers from the 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, August 12–16, 1991, Marle, Jaap van (ed.), pp. 265 ff. | Article
1990 Romance comparative grammar and linguistic change Historical Linguistics 1987: Papers from the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Lille, August 30-September 4, 1987, Andersen, Henning and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 399 ff. | Article
1990 Sir George Cornewall Lewis: Statesman and ‘New Philologist’ Historiographia Linguistica 17:3, pp. 339–356 | Article
George Cornewall Lewis (1806–1863) was a Liberal statesman who attained high office, but whose interest in the ‘new philology’ was maintained throughout his life, although he also wrote extensively on politics and history. His most interesting philological work is an Essay on the For- mation of… read more
1987 Creolization and syntactic change in Romance Papers from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Onofrio Carruba and Giuliano Bernini (eds.), pp. 473 ff. | Article
1985 Creolization as Typological Change: Some Examples from Romance Syntax Diachronica 2:2, pp. 167–188 | Article
SUMMARY Is 'creolization' a process that differs fundamentally from other kinds of linguistic change? Recent debate centers round Bickerto/i's 'Language Bioprogram Hypothesis' (LBH), according to which a pure 'creole' is a newly-created language utilising the lexical items of an unstructured… read more