Gea Dreschler
List of John Benjamins publications for which Gea Dreschler plays a role.
2019 Changes in argument structure: The case of Dutch vernieuwen Linguistics in the Netherlands 2019, Berns, Janine and Elena Tribushinina (eds.), pp. 115–129 | Article
English is often contrasted with German and Dutch when it comes to the semantic roles that the subject can express (Hawkins 1986; Los & Dreschler 2012). Specifically, English seems to have more middles (She photographs well) and allows for unusual inanimate subjects (The cottage sleeps four).… read more
2017 Chapter 6. The information status of late subjects in passive main clauses in Old English Word Order Change in Acquisition and Language Contact: Essays in honour of Ans van Kemenade, Los, Bettelou and Pieter de Haan (eds.), pp. 103–125 | Chapter
This paper investigates properties of late subjects, i.e. subjects that occur after the VP, in Old English (OE), focusing on passive main clauses. Specifically, I test the hypothesis presented by Biberauer & van Kemenade (2011) that the late subject position in OE is reserved for new subjects.… read more
2014 Tracing overlap in function in historical corpora: A case study of English object fronting and passivization Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages, Bech, Kristin and Kristine Gunn Eide (eds.), pp. 111–140 | Article
This paper investigates an overlap in function between object fronting and passivization in Old English, based on observations that these constructions in Present-day English and Present-day verb-second languages both perform a function of restoring the unmarked given-before-new order of… read more
2010 Topic introduction in the by-phrase: Long passives in Early Modern English Linguistics in the Netherlands 2010, Kampen, Jacqueline van and Rick Nouwen (eds.), pp. 59–72 | Article