Bavarian Syntax: Contributions to the theory of syntax
Edited by Günther Grewendorf and Helmut Weiß
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 220] 2014. vi, 339 pp.
Helmut Weiß
List of John Benjamins publications for which Helmut Weiß plays a role.
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Subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2021 Darwinian language evolution: Remarks on Haider’s Grammar change Biological Evolution: More than a metaphor for grammar change, Manzini, Maria Rita (ed.), pp. 73–82 | Commentary
Haider’s target paper presents a fresh and inspiring look at the nature of grammar change. The overall impression of his approach is very convincing, especially his insistence on the point that language was not selected for communication – hence it is no adaptation to communicative use.… read more
2020 Where do complementizers come from and how did they come about? A re-evaluation of the parataxis-to-hypotaxis hypothesis Lexical Issues in the Architecture of the Language Faculty, Padovan, Andrea (ed.), pp. 30–55 | Article
It is an old and widespread assumption in historical linguistics that hypotactic structures evolved out from paratactic structures. In more recent times, the parataxis-to-hypotaxis hypothesis was associated with the assumption that syntactic structures are discourse-based. This means that… read more
2019 Rebracketing (Gliederungsverschiebung) and the Early Merge Principle Diachronica 36:4, pp. 509–545 | Article
The concept of Gliederungsverschiebung (rebracketing) was introduced by the Neogrammarians and it is probably the first explanation of syntactic change proper. Originally, it was conceived of to explain the emergence of the complementizer dass “that”, which was held to go back to a demonstrative… read more
2019 Strong or weak? Or: How information structure governs morphosyntactic variation Morphological Variation: Theoretical and empirical perspectives, Dammel, Antje and Oliver Schallert (eds.), pp. 311–342 | Chapter
This paper discusses morphological variation that is pragmatically determined. We focus on the distribution of personal pronouns and definite articles which both systematically show at least two different morphological forms – full and reduced – and we claim that their syntactic distribution… read more
2014 Aspects of Bavarian syntax Bavarian Syntax: Contributions to the theory of syntax, Grewendorf, Günther and Helmut Weiß (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Article
2014 Really weird subjects. The syntax of family names in Bavarian. Bavarian Syntax: Contributions to the theory of syntax, Grewendorf, Günther and Helmut Weiß (eds.), pp. 203–222 | Article
The syntax of (first or last) names shows many interesting properties in Bavarian – as well as in other German dialects. Yet this paper will focus on a type of construction that seems to occur only in Bavarian. Family Names (FN) are combined with a preposition which can be von ‘of’ or bei ‘at’… read more
2012 The rise of DP-internal possessors: On the relationship of dialectal synchrony to diachrony The Dialect Laboratory: Dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change, De Vogelaer, Gunther and Guido Seiler (eds.), pp. 271–294 | Article
The traditional explanation of the emergence of DP-internal possessors (due to H. Paul and O. Behaghel) assumes a kind of structural reanalysis: The DP-internal possessor originated from an adverbal dative DP which became reanalysed as part of the possessee-DP since both DPs supposedly happened to… read more
2010 What changed where? A plea for the re-evaluation of dialectal evidence Continuity and Change in Grammar, Breitbarth, Anne, Christopher Lucas, Sheila Watts and David Willis (eds.), pp. 13–34 | Article
In the field of generative diachronic syntax, it has often been disregarded at which level of the language (dialect or Standard) syntactic change has occurred. However, just as in the case of phonological developments, the syntax often (though not always) turns out to be more conservative at the… read more
2007 Author’s response What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 215–216 | Article
2007 A question of relevance: Some remarks on standard languages What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 181–208 | Article
Data from natural languages (in contrast to, say, the results of psycholinguistic experiments) are still a major source of evidence used in linguistics, whether they are elicited through grammatical judgments, as in generative linguistics, or by collecting samples, as preferred in typology. The… read more
2004 Author’s response What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics?: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 680–681 | Article
2004 Information structure meetsMinimalist syntax: On argument order and case morphology in Bavarian The Composition of Meaning: From lexeme to discourse, Meulen, Alice G.B. ter and Werner Abraham (eds.), pp. 139 ff. | Article
2004 A question of relevance: Some remarks on standard languages What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics?: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 648–674 | Article
Data from natural languages (in contrast to, say, the results of psycholinguistic experiments) are still a major source of evidence used in linguistics, whether they are elicited through grammatical judgments, as in generative linguistics, or by collecting samples, as preferred in typology. The… read more
2002 Indefinite pronouns: Morphology and syntax in cross-linguistic perspective Pronouns – Grammar and Representation, Simon, Horst J. and Heike Wiese (eds.), pp. 85–107 | Article
1992 Animal Language: a Chapter from the Controversy between Rationalism and Sensualism Diversions of Galway: Papers on the history of linguistics from ICHoLS V, Ahlqvist, Anders (ed.), pp. 203 ff. | Article