George Walkden
List of John Benjamins publications for which George Walkden plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 2452-2120
2024 Parataxis and hypotaxis in the history of English Keys to the History of English: Diachronic linguistic change, morpho-syntax and lexicography, Porck, Thijs, Moragh S. Gordon and Luisella Caon (eds.), pp. 10–33 | Chapter
The claim that parataxis precedes hypotaxis in the history of English is an idea with a long pedigree; however, the empirical evidence for it is limited. In this chapter, I revisit the question of parataxis and hypotaxis diachronically, focusing on two different claims. The first is the idea… read more
2023 Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40 Diachronica 40:5, pp. 666–682 | Editorial
2022 Chapter 2. A particle-like use of hwæþer Wisdom’s questions in Boethius Discourse Particles: Syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and historical aspects, Artiagoitia, Xabier, Arantzazu Elordieta and Sergio Monforte (eds.), pp. 41–64 | Chapter
The paper investigates unembedded hwæþer questions in Old English (OE). We argue that they represent an intermediate stage in the development of hwæþer ‘which of the two’ to modern English whether. Syntactically, we find a range of quasi-subordinating uses of hwæþer in questions that all have in… read more
2018 The interplay between genre variation and syntax in a historical Low German corpus Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change, Whitt, Richard J. (ed.), pp. 281–300 | Chapter
In this chapter, we focus on the choice of different genres in the Middle Low German part of the tagged and parsed Corpus of Historical Low German and its implications for syntax. We discuss how the inclusion or exclusion of genres has an impact on the study and the discovery of syntactic phenomena… read more
2016 The HeliPaD: A parsed corpus of Old Saxon International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 21:4, pp. 559–571 | Article
This short paper introduces the HeliPaD, a new parsed corpus of Old Saxon (Old Low German). It is annotated according to the standards of the Penn Corpora of Historical English, enriched with lemmatization and additional morphological attributes as well as textual and metrical annotation. This… read more
2015 Review of Ringe & Taylor (2014): The development of Old English Diachronica 32:3, pp. 441–447 | Review
2014 Review of Galves, Cyrino, Lopes, Sandalo & Avelar (2012): Parameter theory and linguistic change Diachronica 31:1, pp. 150–157 | Review
2014 Object position and Heavy NP Shift in Old Saxon and beyond Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages, Bech, Kristin and Kristine Gunn Eide (eds.), pp. 313–340 | Article
This paper investigates the position of ‘heavy’ nominal objects in Old Saxon and other Germanic languages. A new empirical study of Old Saxon is carried out and regression analysis performed, with information status, grammatical weight and case all serving as predictors. On the theoretical side it… read more
2013 The correspondence problem in syntactic reconstruction Diachronica 30:1, pp. 95–122 | Article
While considerable swathes of the phonology and morphology of proto-languages have been reconstructed using the comparative method, syntax has lagged behind. Jeffers (1976) and Lightfoot (2002a), among others, have questioned whether syntax can be reconstructed at all, claiming that a fundamental… read more
2012 Review of Gelderen (2009): Cyclical Change Journal of Historical Linguistics 2:2, pp. 283–292 | Review