Guido Seiler
List of John Benjamins publications for which Guido Seiler plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 2589-1588 | E-ISSN 2589-1596
Title
The Dialect Laboratory: Dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change
Edited by Gunther De Vogelaer and Guido Seiler
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 128] 2012. vi, 297 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2022 Reichenbach meets underspecification: A novel approach to the perfect-past-cycle in German (and elsewhere) Journal of Historical Linguistics 12:1, pp. 108–166 | Article
This paper investigates the long-term diachronic development of the perfect and preterite tenses in German and provides a novel analysis by supplementing Reichenbach’s (1947) classical theory of tense by the notion of underspecification. Based on a newly compiled parallel corpus spanning the… read more
2012 The dialect laboratory: Introductory remarks The Dialect Laboratory: Dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change, De Vogelaer, Gunther and Guido Seiler (eds.), pp. 1–32 | Article
2006 The role of functional factors in language change: An evolutionary approach Competing Models of Linguistic Change: Evolution and beyond, Nedergaard Thomsen, Ole (ed.), pp. 163–182 | Article