Melitta Gillmann
List of John Benjamins publications for which Melitta Gillmann plays a role.
Article
2018 Manner of motion and semantic transitivity: A usage-based perspective on change and continuity in the system of the German perfect auxiliaries haben and sein Reorganising Grammatical Variation: Diachronic studies in the retention, redistribution and refunctionalisation of linguistic variants, Dammel, Antje, Matthias Eitelmann and Mirjam Schmuck (eds.), pp. 231–268 | Chapter
Based on a corpus of the major Old High German texts and a corpus of contemporary German newspapers, the paper shows that the German auxiliary system is characterised by both continuity and change. While transitivity proves to be a stable predictor of haben selection throughout German language… read more