Günter Rohdenburg
Biographic Data
| ID | 4055142 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Günter Rohdenburg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Günter |
| FAMILY NAME | Rohdenburg |
| SIGNATURE | ROHDENBURG G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Paderborn University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
End-weight at its most dynamic: Prosodic prominence as a factor promoting morphophonological marking
This contribution supports and extends the principle of end-weight, first formulated by Quirk et al. (1972) to describe the tendency of heavy constituents to appear late in a sentence. Developing this principle further, we argue that it favours the addition of (functionally non-neutral) morphological markers to sentence-final constituents, which are typically characterized by prosodic prominence. The markers we study are undergoing diachronic est…
Ambiguity Avoidance by Means of Function Words in English? Providing Additional Corpus-based Counterevidence
The present paper considers three types of constructions where optional function words have been claimed to be used primarily for the purpose of avoiding a global or local attachment ambiguity. a) In the absence of the complementiser in that -clauses, certain subject NPs might be (temporarily) misconstrued as direct objects of the superordinate verb. b) In the absence of the complementiser that , certain adverbials might be (wrongly) assigned to …
The Complexity Principle at work with rival prepositions
The present corpus-based study deals with eight sets of rivalling prepositions in verb-dependent prepositional phrases. The two or three members of these sets, though equivalent in specific uses, differ in terms of functional explicitness. For instance, in directional uses, into can be regarded as more explicit than in . The main objective is to demonstrate for each of these sets that, in line with the Complexity Principle, the more explicit item…
The Replacement of Direct Objects and Directly Linked Gerunds by Prepositional ones after shirk , refrain and lack in Modern English, with Special Reference to Clause Negation
In most Eastern European languages, clause negation typically triggers the replacement of a “direct” case such as the accusative by a less direct one like the genitive. In English, the contrast is – with several verbs – partially paralleled by that between directly linked complements and their prepositional counterparts. This corpus-based paper explores the relevant behaviour of three verbs which possess an intrinsic negative semantics: shirk , r…
Relative Clauses of Reason in British and American English
This article presents a corpus-based study of relative clauses involving the head noun reason and the competing relativizers why, that, and zero. The analyses focus on specific constellations of antecedent expressions (e.g., the reason) and subject types in the relative clause (e.g., personal pronouns). In an extensive newspaper database, American English is found to display with every single combination a lower aggregate proportion of the formal…
One Language, Two Grammars?: Differences Between British and American English
Functional constraints in syntactic change: The rise and fall of prepositional constructions in early and Late Modern English
Variable Plural Marking With Measure Nouns in Non-Standard English and Low German Dialects
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Die Umschreibung Finiter Verbformen mit doon "Tun" und die Frikativierung Stammauslautender Plosive in Nordniederdeutschen Mundarten
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Some Remarks on the Lexical Autonomy of Interrogatives and Their Associated Indefinite Readings in Northern Low German
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Cognitive complexity and increased grammatical explicitness in English
Betrachtungen Zum Auf- und Abstieg Einiger Präpositionaler Konstruktionen im Englischen
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On the replacement of finite complement clauses by infinitives in English
L'A. examine les differentes proprietes du principe de l'integration des propositions en l'appliquant a des oeuvres litteraires anglaises datant des 16 e et 19 e siecles
Cognitive complexity and increased grammatical explicitness in English
On the replacement of finite complement clauses by infinitives in English
L'A. examine les differentes proprietes du principe de l'integration des propositions en l'appliquant a des oeuvres litteraires anglaises datant des 16 e et 19 e siecles
Functional constraints in syntactic change: The rise and fall of prepositional constructions in early and Late Modern English
Betrachtungen Zum Auf- und Abstieg Einiger Präpositionaler Konstruktionen im Englischen
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On the replacement of finite complement clauses by infinitives in English
L'A. examine les differentes proprietes du principe de l'integration des propositions en l'appliquant a des oeuvres litteraires anglaises datant des 16 e et 19 e siecles
Cognitive complexity and increased grammatical explicitness in English
Some Remarks on the Lexical Autonomy of Interrogatives and Their Associated Indefinite Readings in Northern Low German
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Die Umschreibung Finiter Verbformen mit doon "Tun" und die Frikativierung Stammauslautender Plosive in Nordniederdeutschen Mundarten
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Variable Plural Marking With Measure Nouns in Non-Standard English and Low German Dialects
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Functional constraints in syntactic change: The rise and fall of prepositional constructions in early and Late Modern English
One Language, Two Grammars?: Differences Between British and American English
Relative Clauses of Reason in British and American English
This article presents a corpus-based study of relative clauses involving the head noun reason and the competing relativizers why, that, and zero. The analyses focus on specific constellations of antecedent expressions (e.g., the reason) and subject types in the relative clause (e.g., personal pronouns). In an extensive newspaper database, American English is found to display with every single combination a lower aggregate proportion of the formal…
The Complexity Principle at work with rival prepositions
The present corpus-based study deals with eight sets of rivalling prepositions in verb-dependent prepositional phrases. The two or three members of these sets, though equivalent in specific uses, differ in terms of functional explicitness. For instance, in directional uses, into can be regarded as more explicit than in . The main objective is to demonstrate for each of these sets that, in line with the Complexity Principle, the more explicit item…
The Replacement of Direct Objects and Directly Linked Gerunds by Prepositional ones after shirk , refrain and lack in Modern English, with Special Reference to Clause Negation
In most Eastern European languages, clause negation typically triggers the replacement of a “direct” case such as the accusative by a less direct one like the genitive. In English, the contrast is – with several verbs – partially paralleled by that between directly linked complements and their prepositional counterparts. This corpus-based paper explores the relevant behaviour of three verbs which possess an intrinsic negative semantics: shirk , r…
Ambiguity Avoidance by Means of Function Words in English? Providing Additional Corpus-based Counterevidence
The present paper considers three types of constructions where optional function words have been claimed to be used primarily for the purpose of avoiding a global or local attachment ambiguity. a) In the absence of the complementiser in that -clauses, certain subject NPs might be (temporarily) misconstrued as direct objects of the superordinate verb. b) In the absence of the complementiser that , certain adverbials might be (wrongly) assigned to …
End-weight at its most dynamic: Prosodic prominence as a factor promoting morphophonological marking
This contribution supports and extends the principle of end-weight, first formulated by Quirk et al. (1972) to describe the tendency of heavy constituents to appear late in a sentence. Developing this principle further, we argue that it favours the addition of (functionally non-neutral) morphological markers to sentence-final constituents, which are typically characterized by prosodic prominence. The markers we study are undergoing diachronic est…
Linguistics (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (4 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (4 works) · Noun (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)