Luise Kempf
List of John Benjamins publications for which Luise Kempf plays a role.
Articles
2022 What’s extravagant about be-sandal-ed feet ? Morphology, semantics and pragmatics of German pseudo-participles Extravagant Morphology: Studies in rule-bending, pattern-extending and theory-challenging morphology, Eitelmann, Matthias and Dagmar Haumann (eds.), pp. 19–50 | Chapter
Extravagance can be conceived of as a (more or less) deliberate deviation from established norms that evokes surprise or attention. In this paper, we present an empirical case study of a rare but quite remarkable morphological pattern, namely German pseudo-participles – forms that look like past… read more
2021 German so-relatives: Lost in grammatical, typological, and sociolinguistic change Lost in Change: Causes and processes in the loss of grammatical elements and constructions, Kranich, Svenja and Tine Breban (eds.), pp. 291–332 | Chapter
The paper presents a corpus-based analysis of the loss of the relativizer so in New High German. The corpus data show that the frequencies dropped in the 18th century, with significant differences among regions and genres. The distributions underpin a relation to chancery language (as assumed in… read more
2018 Genre influence on word formation (change): A case study of German adjectival derivation Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change, Whitt, Richard J. (ed.), pp. 301–332 | Chapter
Building on Kempf (2016), this paper analyzes genre influence on adjectival derivation in the history of German. The approach is empirical, based on data from two corpora of historical German (1350–1800 ). Quantitative measures of word-formation productivity reveal substantial differences between… read more