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
2025 Null objects from a cross-linguistic and developmental perspective Null Objects from a Cross-Linguistic and Developmental Perspective, Barbosa, Pilar and Cristina Flores (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Chapter
2025 Animacy restrictions on null objects in European Portuguese Null Objects from a Cross-Linguistic and Developmental Perspective, Barbosa, Pilar and Cristina Flores (eds.), pp. 114–140 | Chapter
This paper investigates the role of animacy for the distribution of clitics and null objects in European Portuguese. Existing corpus data suggest that in spontaneous speech speakers prefer null objects with inanimate referents but clitics with animate referents. A new acceptability judgment… read more
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 | Introduction
2009 Verb placement in Old Portuguese Focus and Background in Romance Languages, Dufter, Andreas and Daniel Jacob (eds.), pp. 309–332 | Article