Ilse Wischer
Biographic Data
| ID | 8896588 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilse Wischer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilse |
| FAMILY NAME | Wischer |
| SIGNATURE | WISCHER I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Potsdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Comparative studies in early Germanic languages
This volume offers a coherent and detailed picture of the diachronic development of verbal categories of Old English, Old High German, and other Germanic languages. Starting from the observation that German and English show diverging paths in the development of verbal categories, even though they descended from a common ancestor language, the contributions present in-depth, empirically founded studies on the stages and directions of these changes…
Markers of Futurity in Old High German and Old English
This paper is a comparative corpus-based study of constructions that had the potential of marking future events in Old High German (OHG) and Old English (OE), i.e. modal constructions and those with be/become -verbs. Given the fact that both languages stem from a common source and probably had similar source lexemes for future grams, they nevertheless took diverging paths to develop a future tense, with werden in German and will/shall in English.…
Will and shall as markers of modality and/or futurity in Middle English
In the following paper I will approach the question of how will and shall lost their modal meanings to become future markers, i.e. in what constructions they were used and what specific meanings they conveyed in these linguistic contexts that allowed an interpretation in a mere future sense. Bybee et al. (The Evolution of Grammar. Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World, University of Chicago Press, 1994: 244) define a genuine f…
The Have -‘perfect’ in Old English
New Reflections on Grammaticalization
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New Reflections on Grammaticalization
The Have -‘perfect’ in Old English
Will and shall as markers of modality and/or futurity in Middle English
In the following paper I will approach the question of how will and shall lost their modal meanings to become future markers, i.e. in what constructions they were used and what specific meanings they conveyed in these linguistic contexts that allowed an interpretation in a mere future sense. Bybee et al. (The Evolution of Grammar. Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World, University of Chicago Press, 1994: 244) define a genuine f…
Comparative studies in early Germanic languages
This volume offers a coherent and detailed picture of the diachronic development of verbal categories of Old English, Old High German, and other Germanic languages. Starting from the observation that German and English show diverging paths in the development of verbal categories, even though they descended from a common ancestor language, the contributions present in-depth, empirically founded studies on the stages and directions of these changes…
Markers of Futurity in Old High German and Old English
This paper is a comparative corpus-based study of constructions that had the potential of marking future events in Old High German (OHG) and Old English (OE), i.e. modal constructions and those with be/become -verbs. Given the fact that both languages stem from a common source and probably had similar source lexemes for future grams, they nevertheless took diverging paths to develop a future tense, with werden in German and will/shall in English.…
History (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works) · Comparative and general Grammar (2 works) · German (2 works) · Grammar, Comparative and general (2 works)