Manuela Schönenberger
List of John Benjamins publications for which Manuela Schönenberger plays a role.
2023 Chapter 5. English rationale since and a reassessment of the typology of adverbial clauses Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses: Synchronic and Diachronic Insights, Jędrzejowski, Łukasz and Constanze Fleczoreck (eds.), pp. 129–166 | Chapter
This chapter examines the syntactic and semantic properties of English causal adverbial clauses, starting from the fact that the conjunctions since and as can both introduce either a temporal clause or a rationale clause. Where relevant, the material is supplemented with data from Dutch causal… read more
2012 Case marking in child L1 and early child L2 German Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies, Braunmüller, Kurt and Christoph Gabriel (eds.), pp. 3–22 | Article
We examine case marking in spontaneous production data from four successive bilingual children and in experimental data from 21 successive bilingual and 14 monolingual children. A clear difference surfaces between spontaneous production data and experimental data. Based on the spontaneous… read more
2008 Review of Wray & Bloomer (2006): Projects in Linguistics Studies in Language 32:4, pp. 969–975 | Review
2008 4. Three acquisition puzzles and the relation between input and output First Language Acquisition of Morphology and Syntax: Perspectives across languages and learners, Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro, María Pilar Larrañaga and John Clibbens (eds.), pp. 87–118 | Article
I discuss three puzzles arising from the study of two children acquiring Swiss German, a verb-second (V2) language which displays the verb-final pattern in embedded clauses. Before switching to the verb-final pattern the children use verb movement in embedded clauses which presents the following… read more