Connectivity in Grammar and Discourse
Edited by Jochen Rehbein, Christiane Hohenstein and Lukas Pietsch
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 5] 2007. viii, 465 pp.
Lukas Pietsch
List of John Benjamins publications for which Lukas Pietsch plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Pragmatics
2009 Hiberno-English medial-object perfects reconsidered: A case of contact-induced grammaticalisation Studies in Language 33:3, pp. 528–568 | Article
Perfects of the type I have my dinner eaten are a well-known feature of Irish English dialects. They can be linked to a functionally similar construction in Irish, of the type tá mo dhinneár ite agam (literally “is my dinner eaten at-me”), but also to earlier constructions in Standard English. The… read more
2008 Prepositional aspect constructions in Hiberno-English Language Contact and Contact Languages, Siemund, Peter and Noemi Kintana (eds.), pp. 213–236 | Article
2007 Nominative subjects of non-finite clauses in Hiberno-English Connectivity in Grammar and Discourse, Rehbein, Jochen, Christiane Hohenstein and Lukas Pietsch (eds.), pp. 165–184 | Article
Hiberno-English (Irish English) dialects have developed an innovative grammatical pattern where the pronominal subject of an embedded gerund clause is marked with nominative instead of accusative or genitive case. This paper traces the use of this structure in older forms of Hiberno-English and… read more
2007 Connectivity as an object of linguistics Connectivity in Grammar and Discourse, Rehbein, Jochen, Christiane Hohenstein and Lukas Pietsch (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article