Brigitte L.M. Bauer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Brigitte L.M. Bauer plays a role.
2020 Language sources and the reconstruction of early languages: Sociolinguistic discrepancies and evolution in Old French grammar Diachronica 37:3, pp. 273–317 | Article
This article argues that with the original emphasis on dialectal variation, using primarily literary texts from various regions, analysis of Old French has routinely neglected social variation, providing an incomplete picture of its grammar. Accordingly, Old French has been identified as… read more
2019 Language contact and language borrowing? Compound verb forms in the Old French translation of the Gospel of St. Mark Latin influence on the syntax of the languages of Europe, Cornillie, Bert and Bridget Drinka (eds.), pp. 210–250 | Article
This study investigates the potential influence of Latin syntax on the development of analytic verb forms in a well-defined and concrete instance of language contact, the Old French translation of a Latin Gospel. The data show that the formation of verb forms in the Old French was remarkably… read more
2009 Strategies of definiteness in Latin: Implications for early Indo-European Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages: Papers presented at the workshop on Indo-European Linguistics at the XVIIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 2007, Bubenik, Vit, John Hewson and Sarah Rose (eds.), pp. 71–87 | Article
2007 The definite article in Indo-European: Emergence of a new grammatical category? Nominal Determination: Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence, Stark, Elisabeth, Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham (eds.), pp. 103–139 | Article
The development of the definite article in Indo-European is a complex innovation, because if most modern languages have defi nite articles, there are important exceptions. In addition, within the Indo-European dialect groups the development of the definite article may not always seem consistent.… read more
2006 ‘Synthetic’ vs. ‘Analytic’ in Romance: The Importance of Varieties Historical Romance Linguistics: Retrospective and perspectives, Gess, Randall and Deborah Arteaga (eds.), pp. 287–304 | Chapter
1996 The verb in indirect speech in Old French: System in change Reported Speech: Forms and functions of the verb, Janssen, Theo and Wim van der Wurff (eds.), pp. 75–96 | Article
1993 The Coalesence of the Participle and the Gerund/Gerundive: An Integrated Change Historical Linguistics 1989: Papers from the 9th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, New Brunswick, 14–18 August 1989, Aertsen, Henk and Robert J. Jeffers (eds.), pp. 59–72 | Article