Ditransitives in Germanic Languages: Synchronic and diachronic aspects
Edited by Eva Zehentner, Melanie Röthlisberger and Timothy Colleman
[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 7] 2023. vi, 446 pp.
Melanie Röthlisberger
List of John Benjamins publications for which Melanie Röthlisberger plays a role.
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Subjects Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2023 Dialectal ditransitive patterns in British English: Weighing sociolinguistic factors against language-internal constraints Ditransitives in Germanic Languages: Synchronic and diachronic aspects, Zehentner, Eva, Melanie Röthlisberger and Timothy Colleman (eds.), pp. 195–225 | Chapter
The present study weighs the effect of well-established language-internal factors of the dative alternation such as animacy or pronominality of the object phrases against language-external factors such as origin of the speaker. For that purpose, the study samples three types of dative variants… read more
2023 Exploring variation in the dative alternation across World Englishes Ditransitives in Germanic Languages: Synchronic and diachronic aspects, Zehentner, Eva, Melanie Röthlisberger and Timothy Colleman (eds.), pp. 226–263 | Chapter
The present chapter explores the variable nature of speakers’ (probabilistic) grammar by analysing variation in the English dative alternation across World Englishes. While the numerous constraints that impact the choice of variant are well-known, the extent to which the regional variability of… read more
2023 Differences in syntactic annotation affect retrieval: Verb-attached PPs in the history of English International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 28:3, pp. 378–406 | Article
Prepositional phrases (PPs) play an important part in English argument structure constructions, but pose considerable challenges for linguistic investigations of any kind. In addition to the fact that PP-attachment is generally notoriously difficult to model computationally, a particularly… read more
2023 Ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages: New avenues and new challenges Ditransitives in Germanic Languages: Synchronic and diachronic aspects, Zehentner, Eva, Melanie Röthlisberger and Timothy Colleman (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter
2021 Chapter 5. Between context and community: Regional variation in register effects in the English dative alternation Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation, Seoane, Elena and Douglas Biber (eds.), pp. 111–142 | Chapter
This paper investigates the relationship between the stylistic context of utterance production and the language user’s regional background as influencing factors in one syntactic alternation, i.e., variation between the double object and the prepositional dative construction. To that end, this… read more
2016 Around the world in three alternations: Modeling syntactic variation in varieties of English English World-Wide 37:2, pp. 109–137 | Article
We sketch a project that marries probabilistic grammar research to scholarship on World Englishes, thus synthesizing two previously rather disjoint lines of research into one unifying project with a coherent focus. This synthesis is hoped to advance usage-based theoretical linguistics by adopting… read more