Svetlana Petrova
List of John Benjamins publications for which Svetlana Petrova plays a role.
Articles
2020 What genericity reveals about the establishment of the definite determiner in German Walking on the Grammaticalization Path of the Definite Article: Functional Main and Side Roads, Szczepaniak, Renata and Johanna Flick (eds.), pp. 75–94 | Chapter
This contribution deals with the rise of the definite determiner in generic noun phrases in German. It calls attention to a by now neglected part of the diachronic development of the determiner system of German and provides a special contribution on the subject, building upon newly collected,… read more
2018 Discourse prominence and the selection of anaphora – evidence from pronouns in historical German Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign Languages, Hübl, Annika and Markus Steinbach (eds.), pp. 93–118 | Chapter
Based on the analysis of the distributional properties of different types of pronouns in historical German, the present paper investigates discourse prominence as a factor governing the selection of anaphora in the discourse. It claims that particular types of pronouns refer to entities which are… read more
2014 Formal properties of event-reporting sentences in Old High German and Old French Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages, Bech, Kristin and Kristine Gunn Eide (eds.), pp. 271–294 | Article
This article investigates the interplay between syntax and information structure by comparing the discourse conditions under which a special class of root clauses in two Old High German (OHG) and Old French (OF) texts occur. The focus is on sentences with post-verbal subjects and either the… read more
2008 Rhetorical relations and verb placement in the early Germanic languages: A cross-linguistic study 'Subordination' versus 'Coordination' in Sentence and Text: A cross-linguistic perspective, Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine and Wiebke Ramm (eds.), pp. 329–351 | Article