Beatrice Primus †
List of John Benjamins publications for which Beatrice Primus † plays a role.
Journal
Title
From Letter to Sound: New perspectives on writing systems
Edited by Martin Neef and Beatrice Primus †
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 7:2 (2005) 207 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Language teaching | Pragmatics | Writing and literacy
Rhythmic constraints in handwriting. A review of Pagliarini et al. (2017) Written Language & Literacy 20:2, pp. 252–258 | To be specified
2017 The architecture of punctuation systems: A historical case study of the comma in German The architecture of writing systems, Berg, Kristian, Franziska Buchmann and Nanna Fuhrhop (eds.), pp. 195–224 | Article
2014 Punctuation systems are explained by three architectural designs in the pertinent literature. The first one is rooted in rhetoric and ties punctuation solely to intonation; the second is pluralistic and considers not only intonation but also style, semantics, and grammar, i.e. syntax. The third… read more
Event-structure and individuation in impersonal passives Transitivity: Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing, Brandt, Patrick and Marco García García (eds.), pp. 209–234 | Article
2010 This paper discusses the event-structural effects of suppressing the subject argument in impersonal passives in several languages, including German, Dutch and Turkish. Corpus data partially support earlier assumptions that the situation denoted by impersonal passives is a homogenoeus, e.g. atelic,… read more
Review of Voeste (2008): Orthographie und Innovation. Die Segmentierung des Wortes im 16. Jahrhundert The Role of Phonology in Reading, Penke, Martina (ed.), pp. 237–240 | Review
2009 The typological and historical variation of punctuation systems: Comma constraints Constraints on Spelling Changes, Nottbusch, Guido and Eliane Segers (eds.), pp. 103–128 | Article
2007 In the literature on punctuation we find a broad typological and historical distinction between prosodically and grammatically determined punctuation. The mainstream historical assumption is that the prosodic system changed into to a grammatical system in some languages. We will show that this view… read more
A featural analysis of the Modern Roman Alphabet From Letter to Sound: New perspectives on writing systems, Neef, Martin and Beatrice Primus † (eds.), pp. 235–274 | Article
2005 The present article shows that the letters of the Modern Roman Alphabet have an internal structure that is highly systematic in both inner-graphematic and functional-phonological terms. The framework of analysis is Optimality Theory. This approach is congenial for the data at issue as many… read more
Introduction: From letter to sound: New perspectives on writing systems From Letter to Sound: New perspectives on writing systems, Neef, Martin and Beatrice Primus † (eds.), pp. 133–138 | Article
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