RICHARD ZIMMERMANN

Biographic Data

ID9697241
NAMERICHARD ZIMMERMANN
GIVEN NAMESRICHARD
FAMILY NAMEZIMMERMANN
SIGNATUREZIMMERMANN R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Manchester
ORCID0000-0002-9189-3443
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • How fear developed from an object to a subject experiencer verb

    Open AccessRICHARD ZIMMERMANNARTICLEJournal of Historical Linguistics2024

    This paper offers quantitative observations on the argument structural change from object to subject experiencers for the verb fear (from causative ‘frighten’ to stative ‘feel fear’) during late medieval and Early Modern English. The empirical statements are based on a corpus of 7.5m words spanning 1350–1600. The paper explores the precise time course of the change, disambiguating cues and ambiguous contexts, the influence of other lexical items,…

  • A quantitative model of verb–object order in Middle English with special reference to the prose–poetry distinction

    Open AccessRICHARD ZIMMERMANNARTICLEEnglish Language and Linguistics2022

    This article reports a regression model for the change from OV to VO in Middle English. It focuses on genre (prose versus poetry) as a predictor by including data from a recently published corpus, the Parsed Corpus of Middle English Poetry (PCMEP; Zimmermann 2015). Other independent variables considered are time, object type, clause type and weight. The results specify the time course of the development in Middle English with great precision and …