Laura Rupp
List of John Benjamins publications for which Laura Rupp plays a role.
Articles
2007 ‘Inverted’ imperatives Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar: Studies in honour of Frits Beukema, Wurff, Wim van der (ed.), pp. 297–322 | Article
Imperatives in English occur with Subject do(n’t) order as well as with the reverse order do(n’t) Subject . Well-established assumptions about inverted order in interrogatives have led previous studies to assume that in apparently inverted imperative constructions, do(n’t) has similarly been placed… read more
2005 Pragmatic and historical aspects of Definite Article Reduction in northern English dialects English World-Wide 26:3, pp. 325–346 | Article
We inquire into Definite Article Reduction (DAR), a phenomenon known to characterize northern English dialects. For this research we collected data from speakers at the North Yorkshire/Lancashire border. While previous studies have largely addressed DAR from a phonological perspective, we examine… read more