Ulrike Demske

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Ulrike Demske plays a role.

Book series

Studies in Germanic Linguistics (SiGL)

Edited by Michael T. Putnam, B. Richard Page and Laura Catharine Smith

ISSN 2452-2120

Journal

Title

The Diachrony of Infinitival Patterns: Their origin, development and loss

Edited by Ulrike Demske and Łukasz Jędrzejowski

Special issue of Journal of Historical Linguistics 5:1 (2015) v, 174 pp.

Subjects Historical linguistics

Articles

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Demske, Ulrike 2020 The grammaticalization of the definite article in German: From demonstratives to weak definites Walking on the Grammaticalization Path of the Definite Article: Functional Main and Side Roads, Szczepaniak, Renata and Johanna Flick (eds.), pp. 43–74

The present paper looks into the grammaticalization of the definite article in the history of German. Starting with the well-known emergence of the definite article from a demonstrative pronoun over the course of Old High German (750–1050), I will consider the rise of so-called weak definites in… read more | Chapter

Demske, Ulrike 2015 Review of Haegeman (2012): Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena, and the Composition of the Left Periphery Studies in Language 39:1, pp. 236–244

Review

Demske, Ulrike 2015 Towards coherent infinitival patterns in the history of German The Diachrony of Infinitival Patterns: Their origin, development and loss, Demske, Ulrike and Łukasz Jędrzejowski (eds.), pp. 6–40

According to Haider (2010), we have to distinguish three types of infinitival complements in Present-Day German: (i) CP complements, (ii) VP complements and (iii) verbal clusters. While CP complements give rise to biclausal structures, VP complements and verbal clusters indicate a monoclausal… read more | Article