Continuity and Change in Grammar
Edited by Anne Breitbarth, Christopher Lucas, Sheila Watts and David Willis
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 159] 2010. viii, 359 pp.
Sheila Watts
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sheila Watts plays a role.
Title
Subjects Functional linguistics | Generative linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2019 Chapter 2. Gender stability, gender loss: What didn’t happen to German The Determinants of Diachronic Stability, Breitbarth, Anne, Miriam Bouzouita, Lieven Danckaert and Melissa Farasyn (eds.), pp. 11–38 | Chapter
This paper investigates the factors which have led to the diachronic stability of gender as a three-way category in German. Old High German and Old English are contrasted to show how phonological, morphological and semantic changes contribute to a reinforcement of gender as a grammatical category… read more
2018 The interplay between genre variation and syntax in a historical Low German corpus Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change, Whitt, Richard J. (ed.), pp. 281–300 | Chapter
In this chapter, we focus on the choice of different genres in the Middle Low German part of the tagged and parsed Corpus of Historical Low German and its implications for syntax. We discuss how the inclusion or exclusion of genres has an impact on the study and the discovery of syntactic phenomena… read more
2010 Introduction: Continuity and change in grammar Continuity and Change in Grammar, Breitbarth, Anne, Christopher Lucas, Sheila Watts and David Willis (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
The present volume brings together 16 contributions selected from papers presented at the conference on Continuity and Change in Grammar that took place at the University of Cambridge 18–20 March 2008. The aim of the conference was to foster an exchange of ideas on various aspects of linguistic… read more