Guy Deutscher
List of John Benjamins publications for which Guy Deutscher plays a role.
Articles
2009 Nominalization and the origin of subordination Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution, Givón, T. and Masayoshi Shibatani (eds.), pp. 199–214 | Article
This paper argues that the paths portrayed in recent literature as the genesis of subordination are only superficial rearrangements of existing subordination, while the real syntactic-cognitive underpinnings of subordination are overlooked. (Derivational) nominalization, the ability to derive a… read more
2001 The rise and fall of a rogue relative construction Studies in Language 25:3, pp. 405–422 | Article
In the earliest attested stage of the Akkadian language, relative clauses were introduced by a pronoun which agreed in case with the head noun in the main clause, rather than with the relativized NP in the relative clause. Such a system is extremely rare across languages, is demonstrably… read more
2000 Stability Against the Odds? The Survival of Verb Final Order in Akkadian Stability, Variation and Change of Word-Order Patterns over Time, Sornicola, Rosanna, Erich Poppe and Ariel Shisha-Halevy (eds.), pp. 55–70 | Chapter