John D. Sundquist

List of John Benjamins publications for which John D. Sundquist plays a role.

Articles

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
Sundquist, John D. 2020 Norsk Språkhistorie IV Tidslinjer, Nesse, Agnete (ed.)Diachronica 37:2, pp. 264–271 | Review
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
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
Sundquist, John D. 2010 Variation, continuity and contact in Middle Norwegian and Middle Low GermanContinuity 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
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