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Research
Book
The Verbal Complex in Subordinate Clauses
from Medieval to Modern German
This monograph, published in
2011 by John Benjamins in the Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today series, is an empirical and
theoretical study of clause-final verbal complexes in the history of German.
The book presents corpus studies of Middle High German and Early New High
German and surveys of contemporary varieties of German. These investigations
of the verbal complex address not only the frequencies of the word orders,
but also the linguistic factors that influence them. On that empirical basis,
the analysis adopted is the classic verb-final approach, with alternative
orders derived by Verb (Projection) Raising. Verb Raising in these historical
and modern varieties is subject to morphological, prosodic, and
sociolinguistic restrictions, suggesting that the orders in question are not
driven by narrow syntax but by their effects at the interface with phonology.
This study will be of interest to students and scholars studying the diachronic
syntax of German, West Germanic dialect syntax, and the relationship between
prosody and word order.
This represents a complete
revision of the work presented in my 2006 dissertation.
There is an entirely new chapter on Middle High German, new empirical
work on Swiss German, and an updated analysis of the effect of prosody on
verb order. The book may be purchased
directly from Benjamins.
Articles available for download
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To appear (2011). “Auxiliary selection in the Early New
High German perfect tenses.” Groninger Arbeiten zur germanistischen Linguistik.
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2009. “Syncope as the Cause of Präteritumschwund: New data from an Early New High German
corpus.” Journal of
Germanic Linguistics 21.4: 419–450. [free download] ©Society for
Germanic Linguistics
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2007. “Focus and verb order in
Early New High German: Historical and contemporary evidence”. In Roots:
Linguistics in search of its evidential base, ed. by Sam Featherston and Wolfgang Sternefeld,
299-318. Berlin:
de Gruyter. [free download]
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2006. “The Rise of the Suffixal Article in the Early North Germanic DP”.
Co-authored with Dorian Roehrs. In Proceedings
of the Western Conference on Linguistics 2004, ed. by Michal
Temkin Martinez, Asier
Alcazar, and Roberto Mayoral Hernandez, 290-301. Fresno:
California State University.
[free download]
For a complete list of my publications, see my CV.
Research
Links
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Bonner Frühneuhochdeutsch-Korpus (Early New High
German corpus)
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Thomas Gloning's medieval German texts
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Susi Wurmbrand's verb clusters
bibliography
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Wolfgang Näser's bibliography of
German syntax
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University
of Tübingen's SFB 441:
Linguistic Data Structures
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University
of Potsdam / Humboldt University’s
SFB 632: Information Structure
(especially project
B4 on Germanic word order)
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Syntactic Atlas of German-speaking
Switzerland, University of Zurich
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Middle High German Grammar
project (Bochum site)
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GoldVarb X,
a statistics program for sociolinguistic analysis
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WebExp2
Experimental Software for psycholinguistic analysis
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