Ann Taylor
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ann Taylor plays a role.
2020 Split coordination in English: Why we need parsed corpora Diachronic Treebanks for Historical Linguistics, Eckhoff, Hanne Martine, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti (eds.), pp. 15–40 | Chapter
In this article we provide a practical demonstration of how syntactically annotated corpora (treebanks), particularly the English Historical Parsed Corpora Series, can be used to investigate research questions with a diachronic depth and synchronic breadth that would not otherwise be possible.… read more
2018 Split coordination in English: Why we need parsed corpora Diachronic Treebanks, Eckhoff, Hanne Martine, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti (eds.), pp. 310–337 | Article
In this article we provide a practical demonstration of how syntactically annotated corpora (treebanks), particularly the English Historical Parsed Corpora Series, can be used to investigate research questions with a diachronic depth and synchronic breadth that would not otherwise be possible.… read more
2017 Chapter 8. Split coordination in Early English Word Order Change in Acquisition and Language Contact: Essays in honour of Ans van Kemenade, Los, Bettelou and Pieter de Haan (eds.), pp. 155–183 | Chapter
Split coordination (e.g., the king came and his company
) occurs at a low but robust rate in early English. While similar in some ways to the Present-Day-English (PDE) construction called Bare Argument Ellipsis (BAE), in which the second conjunct (C2) is restricted to clause-final… read more
2014 Testing the theory: Information structure in Old English Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages, Bech, Kristin and Kristine Gunn Eide (eds.), pp. 53–78 | Article
Various information structure (IS) distinctions have been proposed in the literature to account for differences in word order in languages both modern and historic. We use the schemes adopted by several ongoing IS annotation projects and examine their effect on object position (pre-/post-verbal) in… read more
2000 The Middle English Verb-Second Constraint: A case study in language contact and language
change Textual Parameters in Older Languages, Herring, Susan C., Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler (eds.), pp. 353–392 | Article
2000 Character-Based Reconstruction of a Linguistic Cladogram Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 1: General issues and non-Germanic Languages., Smith, John Charles and Delia Bentley (eds.), pp. 393–408 | Article