Tonya Kim Dewey-Findell
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tonya Kim Dewey-Findell plays a role.
Articles
2019 The alternating predicate puzzle: dat -nom vs. nom -dat in Icelandic and German Constructions and Frames 11:1, pp. 107–170 | Article
A long-standing divide between Icelandic and German in the literature takes for granted that there are non-nominative subjects in Icelandic, while corresponding arguments in German have been analyzed as objects (Zaenen et al. 1985; Sigurðsson 1989). This is based on two differences between these… read more
2018 Chapter 9. Accusative sickness? A brief epidemic in the history of German Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects: The Reykjavík-Eyjafjallajökull papers, Barðdal, Jóhanna, Na'ama Pat-El and Stephen Mark Carey (eds.), pp. 213–238 | Chapter
Germanic languages that retain case marking and oblique subjects may undergo a change in argument structure over time. Nominative Sickness in Germanic has been demonstrated by Eythórsson (2002) and Barðdal (2009, 2011) for verbal arguments in which obliques are replaced with the nominative.… read more
2009 Case variation in Gothic absolute constructions The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case, Barðdal, Jóhanna and Shobhana L. Chelliah (eds.), pp. 3–21 | Article
The choice of case in Gothic absolute constructions is not random, but systematic. Its determining factors are the semantic relationship between the matrix clause and the absolute construction, the tense/aspect of its participle, and the thematic role of its subject. The nominative absolute has… read more