Eva Schlachter
List of John Benjamins publications for which Eva Schlachter plays a role.
Articles
2020 A complex grammaticalization scenario for the definite article: The interplay of different article forms Walking on the Grammaticalization Path of the Definite Article: Functional Main and Side Roads, Szczepaniak, Renata and Johanna Flick (eds.), pp. 17–42 | Chapter
The rise of the definite article in Old High German is the result of a more complex grammaticalization process than has commonly been assumed. Current explanations do not take into account the existence of early definite secondary article forms that are attested since the 8th/9th century. The… read more
2014 Referential properties of the full and reduced forms of the definite article in German: A diachronic survey Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages, Bech, Kristin and Kristine Gunn Eide (eds.), pp. 141–172 | Article
In the following paper, we deal with the properties of the definite article in German. Starting from the existing literature on Present-day German, we show that, in combination with prepositions, two forms of the definite article may be used, namely a full one and a reduced one. They are used in… read more