John D. Sundquist
List of John Benjamins publications for which John D. Sundquist plays a role.
2024 Meter, syntax, and the use of punctuation in the Leipzig fragment of the Hêliand Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell, Hendriks, Jennifer and B. Richard Page (eds.), pp. 32–50 | Chapter
This study examines the use of punctūs (or ‘pointing’) for punctuation in the most recently discovered Leipzig fragment (MS L) of the Hêliand, focusing on the frequency and distribution of pointing in various metrical and syntactic contexts of the poem. Data on punctuation, word order, and… read more
2020 Norsk Språkhistorie IV Tidslinjer, Nesse, Agnete (ed.) Diachronica 37:2, pp. 264–271 | Review
2020 The rich get richer: Preferential attachment and the diachrony of light verbs in Old Swedish Historical Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July – 4 August 2017, Drinka, Bridget (ed.), pp. 343–362 | Chapter
This study investigates five common light verbs in an Old Swedish corpus of texts from 1225–1526, focusing on the increasing frequency with which light verbs combine with an ever-widening range of NP-objects. Tools of statistical analysis from network science and ecology are used to track changes… read more
2020 Productivity, richness, and diversity of light verb constructions in the history of American English Journal of Historical Linguistics 10:3, pp. 349–388 | Article
This study provides an empirical analysis of productivity in Light Verb Constructions (LVCs) in the history of American English. LVCs contain a semantically light verb like make or take that may be paired with an abstract nominal object, as in make an assumption or take charge. Using a… read more
2010 Variation, continuity and contact in Middle Norwegian and Middle Low German Continuity and Change in Grammar, Breitbarth, Anne, Christopher Lucas, Sheila Watts and David Willis (eds.), pp. 145–166 | Article
This study focuses on the period of language contact between Middle Norwegian (MNw) and Middle Low German (MLG) in Norway between 1300 and 1525. Using corpora of MLG and MNw diplomatic letters written during this time, we examine the possibility that syntactic continuity in the form of retention of… read more
2007 Variable use of negation in Middle Low German Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July - 5 August 2005, Salmons, Joseph C. and Shannon Dubenion-Smith (eds.), pp. 149–166 | Article
2006 Syntactic variation in the history of Norwegian and the decline of XV word order Diachronica 23:1, pp. 105–141 | Article
This essay examines syntactic variation between Complement–Verb (XV) and Verb–Complement (VX) order in a corpus of Middle Norwegian texts written between 1250 and 1525. In comparison to traditional studies which relate word order variation and the subsequent loss of XV word order to overt case… read more