Sebastian Kürschner
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sebastian Kürschner plays a role.
Articles
2018 The diachrony of inflectional classes in four Germanic languages: What happens after transparency is lost? The Diachrony of Classification Systems, McGregor, William B. and Søren Wichmann (eds.), pp. 283–314 | Chapter
Inflectional classes are classification systems lacking a discernible synchronic function. We ask how former functions can be lost and, more importantly, what happens after this loss. In a comparative analysis contrasting four Germanic languages (Swedish, Danish, Dutch and German) and two lexical… read more
2010 The reflection of historical language contact in present-day Dutch and Swedish Language Contact: New perspectives, Norde, Muriel, Bob de Jonge and Cornelius Hasselblatt (eds.), pp. 103–118 | Article
In the present study we quantitatively examine similarly constructed samples of formal spoken Swedish and Dutch in order to compare the composition of the lexicons. Results showed that Swedish has many more loans than Dutch, namely 44.4% against 27.9%. Within the Swedish loans there is a large… read more
2008 Complexity in nominal plural allomorphy: A contrastive survey of ten Germanic languages Language Complexity: Typology, contact, change, Miestamo, Matti, Kaius Sinnemäki and Fred Karlsson (eds.), pp. 243–262 | Article
We investigate the complexity of nominal plural allomorphy in ten Germanic languages from a contrastive and diachronic perspective. Focusing on one language family allows us to develop multidimensional criteria to measure morphological complexity and to compare different diachronical drifts. We… read more