Walking on the Grammaticalization Path of the Definite Article: Functional Main and Side Roads
Edited by Renata Szczepaniak and Johanna Flick
[Studies in Language Variation, 23] 2020. vi, 253 pp.
Renata Szczepaniak
List of John Benjamins publications for which Renata Szczepaniak plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax
2020 Introduction: Walking on the grammaticalization path of the definite article – functional main and side roads Walking on the Grammaticalization Path of the Definite Article: Functional Main and Side Roads, Szczepaniak, Renata and Johanna Flick (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter
2018 The development of non-paradigmatic linking elements in Faroese and the decline of the genitive case Germanic Genitives, Ackermann, Tanja, Horst J. Simon and Christian Zimmer (eds.), pp. 115–145 | Chapter
This paper focuses on the development of linking elements in Faroese. It aims to capture the whole dissociation process of the Faroese linking elements, which comprises the ongoing decline of the genitive case as well as the distributional, functional and formal changes within the linking system.… read more
2016 Is the development of linking elements in German a case of exaptation? Exaptation and Language Change, Norde, Muriel and Freek Van de Velde (eds.), pp. 317–340 | Article
The development of linking elements in German has usually been analysed as a case of exaptation. In this paper, a more differentiated picture of this development is presented. What at first sight seems to be a clear case of exaptation (old form > new function) turns out to be a complex process… read more
2010 Jespersen’s Cycle in German from the phonological perspective of syllable and word languages Continuity and Change in Grammar, Breitbarth, Anne, Christopher Lucas, Sheila Watts and David Willis (eds.), pp. 321–334 | Article
This chapter deals with the phonological aspect of Jespersen’s Cycle in German. This is the process whereby the older, Germanic negator ni was replaced by the more recent particle niht during the Middle High German period. At the same time, German changed from a syllable language to a word language. read more
2007 Glimpses into receptive dictionary use: Proficient learners' perspective. Rationale for the research perspective Dictionary Visions, Research and Practice: Selected papers from the 12th International Symposium on Lexicography, Copenhagen 2004, Gottlieb, Henrik and Jens Erik Mogensen (eds.), pp. 147–164 | Article