Christopher D Sapp
Biographic Data
| ID | 816913 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher D Sapp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher D |
| FAMILY NAME | Sapp |
| SIGNATURE | SAPP C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mississippi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Dating and Authenticity of Skaldic Verse in some Sagas of Icelanders
Icelandic sagas featuring a poet (Old Norse skáld) as the protagonist contain large amounts of poetry, which at times seems to be a source used by the saga author and at other times seems to simply embellish the narrative. Thus, there has been debate whether this poetry is old enough to have actually been composed by the tenth- or eleventh-century protagonists, or if the poetry is perhaps as late as the thirteenth-century prose of the sagas. In t…
Dialectal Variation in Old Saxon and the Origins of the Hêliand Manuscripts
Research Article| October 01 2021 Dialectal Variation in Old Saxon and the Origins of the Hêliand Manuscripts Juliana Norton; Juliana Norton Colorado State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Christopher D. Sapp Christopher D. Sapp Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (2021) 120 (4): 516–544. https://doi.org/10.5406/jenglgermph…
Arrested development
Old Icelandic relative clauses are frequently preceded by the pronoun sá , considered by most grammars to be a demonstrative. Using a large corpus of Old Icelandic prose, I show that when sá precedes relative clauses, it is often ambiguous between a cataphoric demonstrative (referring ahead to a relative clause) and relative pronoun (part of the relative clause). Syntactic and prosodic evidence indicates that, at least in some instances, sá is un…
Niehaus, Konstantin
Head-to-Modifier Reanalysis
The quantifier viel changes from exhibiting properties of a head in Old High German to exhibiting properties of a modifier in Modern German. This is accompanied by changes in word order vis-à-vis its quantified constituent and the loss of the ability to assign genitive case to some of the quantified constituents. Assuming that quantifying expressions may have various syntactic representations, we argue that viel develops from a quantifying noun t…
Word order patterns in the Old High German right periphery and their Indo-European origins
I investigate deviations from the OV order in the OHG texts Isidor and Tatian . Abstracting away from cases of verb-second, post-verbal constituents tend to be heavy or focused. OHG thus has a head-final VP with extraposition of NPs and PPs. Likewise, verbal complexes with the order finite before non-finite are derived by Verb (Projection) Raising. Ancient Indo-European languages are also underlyingly OV with evidence for extraposition. This sugg…
Viva La Kleine Alsase
Book Review| May 01 2013 Viva La Kleine Alsase! Language Maintenance and Language Death: The Decline of Texas Alsatian. By Roesch, Karen A.. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2012. Pp. xv + 253. ISBN 978-90-272-0288-8; $149 (hardbound and ebook) Christopher D. Sapp Christopher D. Sapp Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2013) 88 (2): 219–222. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-2346789 Views Icon Views Article conten…
The Verbal Complex in Subordinate Clauses from Medieval to Modern German
This research monograph 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 t…
Syncope as the Cause of Präteritumschwund
This paper examines the cause of the decline of the preterite tense in favor of the present perfect tense in Early New High German. This development has long been attributed to apocope, which rendered the 3sg. weak preterite suffix -te homophonous with the 3sg. present suffix -t . By analyzing a database of over 20,000 past-tense clauses, this study evaluates the apocope account and more recent hypotheses. The resulting data lead to a new explana…
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Syncope as the Cause of Präteritumschwund
This paper examines the cause of the decline of the preterite tense in favor of the present perfect tense in Early New High German. This development has long been attributed to apocope, which rendered the 3sg. weak preterite suffix -te homophonous with the 3sg. present suffix -t . By analyzing a database of over 20,000 past-tense clauses, this study evaluates the apocope account and more recent hypotheses. The resulting data lead to a new explana…
The Verbal Complex in Subordinate Clauses from Medieval to Modern German
This research monograph 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 t…
Viva La Kleine Alsase
Book Review| May 01 2013 Viva La Kleine Alsase! Language Maintenance and Language Death: The Decline of Texas Alsatian. By Roesch, Karen A.. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2012. Pp. xv + 253. ISBN 978-90-272-0288-8; $149 (hardbound and ebook) Christopher D. Sapp Christopher D. Sapp Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2013) 88 (2): 219–222. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-2346789 Views Icon Views Article conten…
Head-to-Modifier Reanalysis
The quantifier viel changes from exhibiting properties of a head in Old High German to exhibiting properties of a modifier in Modern German. This is accompanied by changes in word order vis-à-vis its quantified constituent and the loss of the ability to assign genitive case to some of the quantified constituents. Assuming that quantifying expressions may have various syntactic representations, we argue that viel develops from a quantifying noun t…
Word order patterns in the Old High German right periphery and their Indo-European origins
I investigate deviations from the OV order in the OHG texts Isidor and Tatian . Abstracting away from cases of verb-second, post-verbal constituents tend to be heavy or focused. OHG thus has a head-final VP with extraposition of NPs and PPs. Likewise, verbal complexes with the order finite before non-finite are derived by Verb (Projection) Raising. Ancient Indo-European languages are also underlyingly OV with evidence for extraposition. This sugg…
Niehaus, Konstantin
Arrested development
Old Icelandic relative clauses are frequently preceded by the pronoun sá , considered by most grammars to be a demonstrative. Using a large corpus of Old Icelandic prose, I show that when sá precedes relative clauses, it is often ambiguous between a cataphoric demonstrative (referring ahead to a relative clause) and relative pronoun (part of the relative clause). Syntactic and prosodic evidence indicates that, at least in some instances, sá is un…
Dialectal Variation in Old Saxon and the Origins of the Hêliand Manuscripts
Research Article| October 01 2021 Dialectal Variation in Old Saxon and the Origins of the Hêliand Manuscripts Juliana Norton; Juliana Norton Colorado State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Christopher D. Sapp Christopher D. Sapp Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (2021) 120 (4): 516–544. https://doi.org/10.5406/jenglgermph…
Dating and Authenticity of Skaldic Verse in some Sagas of Icelanders
Icelandic sagas featuring a poet (Old Norse skáld) as the protagonist contain large amounts of poetry, which at times seems to be a source used by the saga author and at other times seems to simply embellish the narrative. Thus, there has been debate whether this poetry is old enough to have actually been composed by the tenth- or eleventh-century protagonists, or if the poetry is perhaps as late as the thirteenth-century prose of the sagas. In t…
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