Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell
Edited by Jennifer Hendriks and B. Richard Page
[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 8] 2024. vi, 327 pp.
Jennifer Hendriks
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jennifer Hendriks plays a role.
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Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
2024 Investigating change from a perspective of continuity: Dutch two-verb clusters in sixteenth-century Antwerp Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell, Hendriks, Jennifer and B. Richard Page (eds.), pp. 188–224 | Chapter
Word order variation in Dutch two-verb clusters continues to attract the attention of linguists from a variety of perspectives. Most accounts have a contemporary focus and diachronic developments therefore remain poorly understood. Rather than simply marshalling more evidence from more… read more
2024 Chapter 4. The dynamics of lifelong acquisition in dialect contact and change Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change: Historical sociolinguistic perspectives, Sanz-Sánchez, Israel (ed.), pp. 84–103 | Chapter
Acquisition research involving speakers of mutually intelligible varieties (dialects) or mutually unintelligible varieties (languages) reveals a wide range of possible acquisition outcomes at different life stages and their potential to shape language change across the community. Since contexts… read more
2024 Investigating West Germanic Languages Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell, Hendriks, Jennifer and B. Richard Page (eds.), pp. 2–11 | Chapter
2012 Re-examining the ‘origins’ of the prenominal periphrastic possessive construction Jan z’n boek in Dutch: An empirical approach Diachronica 29:1, pp. 28–71 | Article
The dative reanalysis ‘origins’ explanation for prenominal periphrastic possessive constructions (PPPCs) in Dutch has been maintained for well over a century. This paper brings new evidence to bear on this hypothesis, arguing that while genitive relational case marking on the possessor NP in… read more