The Development of Grammar: Language acquisition and diachronic change. In honour of Jürgen M. Meisel
Edited by Esther Rinke and Tanja Kupisch
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 11] 2011. viii, 414 pp.
Esther Rinke
List of John Benjamins publications for which Esther Rinke plays a role.
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Subjects Historical linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2023 How unique is the linguistic situation of endangered language speakers? Epistemological issue: The dynamics of bilingualism in language shift ecologies, Flores, Cristina and Neal Snape (eds.), pp. 100–105 | Commentary
2022 To hón ich imma insistieat: Syntactic stability in heritage Hunsrückisch German spoken in Brazil Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:3, pp. 251–279 | Article
This paper investigates syntactic variation in Hunsrückisch German, spoken in a language enclave in South Brazil over eight generations. The aim is to analyse whether this heritage language maintains asymmetric verb placement, i.e. verb-second in main clauses and verb-final in subordinate… read more
2014 Formal properties of event-reporting sentences in Old High German and Old French Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages, Bech, Kristin and Kristine Gunn Eide (eds.), pp. 271–294 | Article
This article investigates the interplay between syntax and information structure by comparing the discourse conditions under which a special class of root clauses in two Old High German (OHG) and Old French (OF) texts occur. The focus is on sentences with post-verbal subjects and either the… read more
2011 Introduction The Development of Grammar: Language acquisition and diachronic change, Rinke, Esther and Tanja Kupisch (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Article
2009 Verb placement in Old Portuguese Focus and Background in Romance Languages, Dufter, Andreas and Daniel Jacob (eds.), pp. 309–332 | Article