Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages: With a focus on verbal categories
Edited by Gabriele Diewald, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka and Ilse Wischer
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 138] 2013. vi, 318 pp.
Ilse Wischer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ilse Wischer plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Comparative linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
New Reflections on Grammaticalization
Edited by Ilse Wischer and Gabriele Diewald
[Typological Studies in Language, 49] 2002. xiv, 437 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Typology
Articles
2019 Old English wolde and sceolde: A semantic and syntactic analysis Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax, Claridge, Claudia and Birte Bös (eds.), pp. 111–128 | Chapter
The Old English (OE) pre-modals willan and *sculan are generally considered less grammaticalized than their Modern English counterparts will and shall; nevertheless they most often function as auxiliary verbs (cf. Wischer, 2006: 173). Their present tense forms have already been studied in… read more
2013 Markers of Futurity in Old High German and Old English: A Comparative Corpus-Based Study Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages: With a focus on verbal categories, Diewald, Gabriele, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka and Ilse Wischer (eds.), pp. 195–216 | Article
This paper is a comparative corpus-based study of constructions that had the potential of marking future events in Old High German (OHG) and Old English (OE), i.e. modal constructions and those with be/become-verbs. Given the fact that both languages stem from a common source and probably had… read more
2013 Introduction Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages: With a focus on verbal categories, Diewald, Gabriele, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka and Ilse Wischer (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
2010 On the use of beon and wesan in Old English English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008., Lenker, Ursula, Judith Huber and Robert Mailhammer (eds.), pp. 217–236 | Chapter
This paper commences by characterizing the exceptionality of the Old English double paradigm of sL and bLforms of the verb ‘to be’ in the present tense among the (West) Germanic languages, followed by an analysis of the use of beon and wesan in the Old English section of the Helsinki Corpus with a… read more
2004 The HAVE -‘perfect’ in Old English New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002, Kay, Christian, Simon Horobin and Jeremy J. Smith (eds.), pp. 243–255 | Article
2002 Introduction New Reflections on Grammaticalization, Wischer, Ilse and Gabriele Diewald (eds.), pp. ix ff. | Article
2000 Grammaticalization versus lexicalization: ‘Methinks’ there is some confusion Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English, Fischer, Olga, Anette Rosenbach and Dieter Stein (eds.), pp. 355–370 | Article