Kevin J. Rottet

List of John Benjamins publications for which Kevin J. Rottet plays a role.

Title

History, Society and Variation: In honor of Albert Valdman

Edited by J. Clancy Clements, Thomas A. Klingler, Deborah Piston-Hatlen and Kevin J. Rottet

[Creole Language Library, 28] 2006. vi, 304 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Articles

The English way-construction (He elbowed his way through the crowd), one of the clearest examples of an Argument Structure Construction (ASC), is a highly English-specific idiom that is reported not to have exact equivalents in other languages. Yet Welsh has a virtually identical… read more
Rottet, Kevin J. 2017 Translation and contact languages: The case of motion eventsBabel 63:4, pp. 523–555 | Article
In this study we use a translation corpus of English novels translated into two closely related Celtic languages, Welsh and Breton, as one way of shedding light on the extent to which languages can influence each other over time: Welsh has a long history of contact with English, and Breton with… read more
Rottet, Kevin J. and Rex A. Sprouse 2008 Tag questions in WelshDiachronica 25:1, pp. 20–53 | Article
Modern Colloquial Welsh (MCW) displays a considerable variety of tag question patterns. In this paper we offer a unified account for the divergent developments in modern Welsh dialects, focusing on tags attached to “normal” or VSO clauses. We propose a scenario of how the MCW system of tags is… read more
Clements, J. Clancy, Thomas A. Klingler, Deborah Piston-Hatlen and Kevin J. Rottet 2006 IntroductionHistory, Society and Variation: In honor of Albert Valdman, Clements, J. Clancy, Thomas A. Klingler, Deborah Piston-Hatlen and Kevin J. Rottet (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Miscellaneous
Rottet, Kevin J. 2006 Interrogative pronouns in Louisiana Creole and the Multiple Genesis HypothesisHistory, Society and Variation: In honor of Albert Valdman, Clements, J. Clancy, Thomas A. Klingler, Deborah Piston-Hatlen and Kevin J. Rottet (eds.), pp. 235–249 | Article