Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English
Edited by Simone E. Pfenninger, Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 159] 2014. vi, 326 pp.
Simone E. Pfenninger
List of John Benjamins publications for which Simone E. Pfenninger plays a role.
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Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
2025 Chapter 17. Envoi: How diverse is multilingualism research? World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies, Siemund, Peter, Gardy Stein and Manuela Vida-Mannl (eds.), pp. 385–396 | Chapter
2019 Making the most of an early start to L2 instruction Language Teaching for Young Learners 1:2, pp. 111–138 | To be specified
Research over more than forty years has shown consistently that earlier L2 starters do not in the long term maintain the linguistic advantage of an early start over older starters. What, then, in the light of the widespread setting aside of the evidence regarding the apparent uselessness of an… read more
2018 L2 acquisition in childhood, adulthood and old age: Misreported and under-researched dimensions of the age factor Journal of Second Language Studies 1:2, pp. 254–276 | Article
This article deals with some misunderstandings about the age factor in second language acquisition which result from a reliance on an incomplete interpretation of relevant research findings. It begins with an exploration of the work of Penfield and Lenneberg and goes on to weigh recent evidence… read more
2014 At the crossroads of language change, variation, and contact Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English, Pfenninger, Simone E., Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Preface
2013 Þǣr wæs vs. thâr was: Old English and Old High German existential constructions with adverbs of place Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages: With a focus on verbal categories, Diewald, Gabriele, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka and Ilse Wischer (eds.), pp. 263–288 | Article
Even though we can observe striking differences in the isolating contexts of Modern English and Modern High German existential constructions, both languages feature existential constructions with locative adverbs that are the result of long processes of grammaticalisation. In Old English (OE),… read more