Daan Van den Nest
List of John Benjamins publications for which Daan Van den Nest plays a role.
Articles
2015 Asynchronous grammaticalization: V1-conditionals in present-day English and German Contrasting contrastive approaches, Defrancq, Bart (ed.), pp. 34–64 | Article
The present paper contrasts verb-first (V1-) conditionals in written usage in present-day English and German. Based on the hypothesis that V1-protases originated in independent interrogatives and then grammaticalized as conditional subordinate clauses in an asynchronous fashion in both languages,… read more
2012 Emergent correlative concessivity: The case of German zwar… aber ‘true … but’ Information Structure, Discourse Structure and Grammatical Structure, Defrancq, Bart, Gudrun Rawoens and Els Tobback (eds.), pp. 116–142 | Article
While concessives are well-known for their special semantic characteristics, most research has so far been oriented towards hypotactic construction types (although etc.). The present article seeks to complement this trend by investigating the paratactic zwar … aber-construction in German (roughly… read more
2010 Should conditionals be emergent …: Asyndetic subordination in German and English as a challenge to grammaticalization research Formal Evidence in Grammaticalization Research, Van linden, An, Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Kristin Davidse (eds.), pp. 93–136 | Article
The present article examines asyndetic or conjunctionless conditionals in German and English. According to Jespersen’s Model (1940), this construction arose diachronically from a paratactic discourse sequence with a polar interrogative, but more recently Harris and Campbell (1995) have claimed that… read more