Robert Cloutier
List of John Benjamins publications for which Robert Cloutier plays a role.
Articles
2013 *haitan in Gothic and Old English Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages: With a focus on verbal categories, Diewald, Gabriele, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka and Ilse Wischer (eds.), pp. 17–40 | Article
By collecting data from various corpora, I examine and compare the use of the Gothic haitan and Old English hātan reflexes of *haitan, a transitive verb that develops into a copula-like verb in the other Germanic languages. Between the two languages, this verb can occur in five constructions:… read more
2013 Synchronic variation and loss of case: Formal and informal language in a Dutch corpus of 17th-century Amsterdam texts Diachronica 30:3, pp. 353–381 | Article
A bias towards formal texts obscures our view of language change and gives a misleading impression of actual developments if ‘changes from below’ are in conflict with ‘changes from above,’ resulting from norms that are visible in particular in formal language. A corpus of 17th-century Amsterdam… read more