Vilma Symanczyk Joppe
List of John Benjamins publications for which Vilma Symanczyk Joppe plays a role.
Articles
2023 Chapter 5. ‘Optional’ direct objects: Free variation? Free variation? Free Variation in Grammar: Empirical and theoretical approaches, Kopf, Kristin and Thilo Weber (eds.), pp. 99–164 | Chapter
While the existence of free variation is widely acknowledged in phonology, it has often been denied for lexicon and syntax. Syntactic variation, according to the consensus among many, is never truly free; apparent counterexamples are just cases of undetected complementary distribution. Among… read more
2018 Optimal spaces and hyphens: A constraint-based analysis of compound word formation Understanding Writing Systems, Beeksma, Merijn and Martin Neef (eds.), pp. 89–110 | Article
The paper deals with the insertion of spaces and hyphens in German. It summarizes the existing optimality-theoretic approach and extends it to capture the use of hyphens. Hyphenation is often excluded in the literature on the writing of complex words, as forms with hyphens are thought to be mere… read more