David Fertig
List of John Benjamins publications for which David Fertig plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 0176-4225 | E-ISSN 1569-9714
Book series
2024 Sound change, analogy, and urban koineization in the regularization of verbs in late fourteenth-century English Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell, Hendriks, Jennifer and B. Richard Page (eds.), pp. 80–106 | Chapter
This paper presents a detailed comparison of certain verb forms in Sir Firumbras, a text produced in a relatively remote part of southwestern England around 1380, with those found in texts produced in the London area around the same time. The forms in question reflect a collapse in some dialects… read more
2016 Mechanisms of paradigm leveling and the role of universal preferences in morphophonological change Diachronica 33:4, pp. 423–460 | Article
Historical linguists have long been divided in their views about the mechanisms behind paradigm leveling, with many invoking a special mechanism related to a universal preference for paradigm uniformity while others attribute leveling to the same mechanism responsible for other types of… read more
1999 Analogical 'Leveling' from Outside the Paradigm: Stem-Vowel Changes in the German Modals Diachronica 16:2, pp. 233–260 | Article
SUMMARY Among the many changes that have occurred in the stem vowels of the German modal verbs is one set that has led to the partial or complete elimination of morphophonemic alternations between present and preterite in five of the modals in modern times. Analogical leveling is usually seen as… read more
1996 Phonology, Orthography and the Umlaut puzzle Germanic Linguistics: Syntactic and diachronic, Lippi-Green, Rosina L. and Joseph C. Salmons (eds.), pp. 169–184 | Article