Ian Roberts
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ian Roberts plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 0166-0829
Titles
Noam Chomsky and Language Descriptions
Edited by John Ole Askedal, Ian Roberts and Tomonori Matsushita
[The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals, 2] 2010. vii, 225 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
Germanic Languages and Linguistic Universals
Edited by John Ole Askedal, Ian Roberts, Tomonori Matsushita and Hiroshi Hasegawa
[The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals, 1] 2009. v, 213 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2018 Chapter 17. Object clitics for subject clitics in Francoprovençal and Piedmontese Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia, Grimaldi, Mirko, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi (eds.), pp. 257–267 | Chapter
This article illustrates and analyses the intricate phenomenon of OCL-for-SCL, found in certain varieties of Franco-Provençal Valdôtain and Piedmontese. This phenomenon, which at first sight appears highly unusual, reflects operations of morphophonological realisation of the kind developed in the… 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
2010 Grammaticalization, the clausal hierarchy and semantic bleaching Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization, Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Graeme Trousdale (eds.), pp. 45–73 | Article
This paper takes questions regarding gradience and gradualness to be questions concerning the nature of grammatical categories. A notion of grammatical category is pursued which is not gradient, but rather more “traditional” in the sense that category membership is an instance of standard set… read more
2010 Preface Noam Chomsky and Language Descriptions, Askedal, John Ole, Ian Roberts and Tomonori Matsushita (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Miscellaneous
2009 Preface Germanic Languages and Linguistic Universals, Askedal, John Ole, Ian Roberts, Tomonori Matsushita and Hiroshi Hasegawa (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Miscellaneous
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