Anne C. Wolfsgruber
List of John Benjamins publications in which Anne C. Wolfsgruber is involved.
Articles
2026 Intransitive verbs and reflexive marking in the history of French Revue Romane: Online-First Articles | Article
The Latin reflexive pronoun se famously developed into a middle marker in Romance languages. In this shift, it gained new voice-related functions (e.g. impersonals) and also became obligatory with some intransitive verbs, as in French s’évanouir ‘faint’. While the emergence of new… read more
2023 The rise and fall of morphological schemas: A diachronic account of entre- prefixation in French Issues in Diachronic Construction Morphology, Norde, Muriel and Graeme Trousdale (eds.), pp. 187–210 | Article
The paper explores the origin and development of the [entre-V] construction in the history of French. By means of quantitative corpus data, it is shown that the [entre-V] construction, particularly in its reciprocal function, is productive in earlier stages of French and progressively disappears… read more
2017 On , Se and related valency alternations in Medieval French Transitivity and Valency: From theory to acquisition, Fotiadou, Georgia and Hélène Vassiliadou (eds.), pp. 59–80 | Article
This article explores the question of why Medieval French does not use se-constructions as exhaustively as other Medieval Romance varieties and why the indefinite pronoun on is clearly the preferred choice. It is claimed that se exhibits affix-like behavior in passive constructions and that it… read more