Anne Breitbarth
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1497763 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Anne Breitbarth |
| PRENOMES | Anne |
| SOBRENOME | Breitbarth |
| ASSINATURA | BREITBARTH A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8300-8275 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 6 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Diachrony and Diachronica
In this second set of contributions on the 40th anniversary of Diachronica, seven historical linguists provide perspectives on the current state of the field and aims for the future. While the authors in issue 40.4 focused on the ideas that have structured the field – the actuation problem, the relationship between synchrony and diachrony, and how we do our work – this current set of contributions focus on method: what we do, how and why we do it…
Prosodie, Syntax und Diskursfunktion von V>2 in gesprochenem Deutsch
German is a V2 language, apart from a small number of exceptions which lead to superficial later positioning of the finite verb (V>2), which are regarded as compatible with the underlying V2-property. However, the more recent literature has identified a number of V>2 cases which are not easily reconcilable with a V2-syntax, such as V2-clauses preceded by a `central' adverbial without inversion. Such Adv-S-V fin cases were first described for mult…
An den Grenzen des Systems
Normally, translated texts are avoided in research into the syntax of older stages of a language in order to avoid erroneous analyses of potential influences from the source language. However, autochthonous texts, too, sometimes raise doubts as to their representativeness for a given stage of the language. The current article aims to see how much independent Middle Low German syntax can be found in two different psalm translations. This serves to…
The Negative Cycle and Beyond
The expression of negation shows significant typological variation, for example by adverbial particles or verbs. In some languages, the different strategies are diachronically related, and the formal expression of negation can undergo a cyclic renewal. This chapter discusses the different lexical sources for the grammaticalization of new negative markers, and the formal processes involved. It also broaches on some open questions, such as why some…
The determinants of diachronic stability
While much of the literature has focused on explaining diachronic variation and change, the fact that sometimes change does not seem to happen has received much less attention. The current volume unites ten contributions that look for the determinants of diachronic stability, mainly in the areas of morphology and (morpho)syntax. The relevant question is approached from different angles, both empirical and theoretical. Empirically, the contributio…
Determinants of Diachronic Stability
Interpreting (un)interpretability
published
Complexity as L2-difficulty
Recent work has cast doubt on the idea that all languages are equally complex; however, the notion of syntactic complexity remains underexplored. Taking complexity to equate to difficulty of acquisition for late L2 acquirers, we propose an operationalization of syntactic complexity in terms of uninterpretable features. Trudgill’s sociolinguistic typology predicts that sociohistorical situations involving substantial late L2 acquisition should be …
An automatic part-of-speech tagger for Middle Low German
Syntactically annotated corpora are highly important for enabling large-scale diachronic and diatopic language research. Such corpora have recently been developed for a variety of historical languages, or are still under development. One of those under development is the fully tagged and parsed Corpus of Historical Low German (CHLG), which is aimed at facilitating research into the highly under-researched diachronic syntax of Low German. The pres…
A (Very) Imperfect Sandwich
Based on a comparative corpus study, the present paper contrasts conditionals containing the modal verbs sollte in German, should in English, and mocht/moest in Dutch. The conditionals are examined with respect to the linkage levels between protasis and apodosis, the tense/mood patterns in the two clauses, and the degree of syntactic integration of the protasis into the apodosis. We argue that sollte, should, mocht , and moest are undergoing a pr…
The distribution of preverbal en in (West) Flemish
The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean
This volume represents the first of a two-volume work examining the historical development of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. It integrates existing work from typological and generative synchronic approaches with detailed philological work on the histories of individual languages to give a uniquely comparative diachronic perspective. In this first volume, leading experts on the history of negation in various languages h…
Negation in the history of Low German and Dutch
This chapter looks at the progress of Jespersen’s cycle in Low German and Dutch, tracing the emergence of a new marker of negation (nicht, niet) replacing earlier preverbal ni/ne/en and the very slow process by which the original marker fell out of use. It also considers issues in language contact and variation within Low German and Dutch, including discussion of dialects, such as West Flemish, where the original marker of negation survives, in a…
Indefinites, negation and Jespersen’s Cycle in the history of Low German
This paper offers a formal account of the diachronic changes in the interaction between indefinites in the scope of negation and the expression of sentential negation in the history of Low German. Different types of negative concord develop at the different historical stages. Parallel to that, the language underwent Jespersen’s Cycle. In addition, I argue that, against common belief, Jespersen’s Cycle is at best indirectly related to the type of …
The syntax of polarity emphasis
Modality and negation in the history of Low German
The aim of the present paper is to study and account for the scopal interaction between modal verbs and sentential negation in historical Low German. A number of proposals concerning the scope of negation in clauses with modal verbs for other languages (mainly English) will be evaluated against the empirical findings from historical Low German. It will be argued that syntactic accounts of this interaction are not empirically adequate, and that a …
Continuity and Change in Grammar
One of the principal challenges of historical linguistics is to explain the causes of language change. Any such explanation, however, must also address the ‘actuation problem’: why is it that changes occurring in a given language at a certain time cannot be reliably predicted to recur in other languages, under apparently similar conditions? The sixteen contributions to the present volume each aim to elucidate various aspects of this problem, incl…
Continuity and change in grammar
Triggers
Auxiliary drop as subordination marking
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Triggers
The concept of 'trigger' is a core concept of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. The idea that certain types of movement are triggered by some property of the target position is at least as old as the notion that the movement of noun phrases to the subject position is triggered by their need to receive nominative case. In more recent versions of syntactic theory, triggering mechanisms are thought to regulate all of movement. Furthermore, a quite narro…
Auxiliary drop in Early Modern German
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Dative case, morphological decay, and structural deficiency
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Dative case, morphological decay, and structural deficiency
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Triggers
The concept of 'trigger' is a core concept of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. The idea that certain types of movement are triggered by some property of the target position is at least as old as the notion that the movement of noun phrases to the subject position is triggered by their need to receive nominative case. In more recent versions of syntactic theory, triggering mechanisms are thought to regulate all of movement. Furthermore, a quite narro…
Auxiliary drop in Early Modern German
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Auxiliary drop as subordination marking
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Triggers
Continuity and Change in Grammar
One of the principal challenges of historical linguistics is to explain the causes of language change. Any such explanation, however, must also address the ‘actuation problem’: why is it that changes occurring in a given language at a certain time cannot be reliably predicted to recur in other languages, under apparently similar conditions? The sixteen contributions to the present volume each aim to elucidate various aspects of this problem, incl…
Continuity and change in grammar
Modality and negation in the history of Low German
The aim of the present paper is to study and account for the scopal interaction between modal verbs and sentential negation in historical Low German. A number of proposals concerning the scope of negation in clauses with modal verbs for other languages (mainly English) will be evaluated against the empirical findings from historical Low German. It will be argued that syntactic accounts of this interaction are not empirically adequate, and that a …
The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean
This volume represents the first of a two-volume work examining the historical development of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. It integrates existing work from typological and generative synchronic approaches with detailed philological work on the histories of individual languages to give a uniquely comparative diachronic perspective. In this first volume, leading experts on the history of negation in various languages h…
Negation in the history of Low German and Dutch
This chapter looks at the progress of Jespersen’s cycle in Low German and Dutch, tracing the emergence of a new marker of negation (nicht, niet) replacing earlier preverbal ni/ne/en and the very slow process by which the original marker fell out of use. It also considers issues in language contact and variation within Low German and Dutch, including discussion of dialects, such as West Flemish, where the original marker of negation survives, in a…
Indefinites, negation and Jespersen’s Cycle in the history of Low German
This paper offers a formal account of the diachronic changes in the interaction between indefinites in the scope of negation and the expression of sentential negation in the history of Low German. Different types of negative concord develop at the different historical stages. Parallel to that, the language underwent Jespersen’s Cycle. In addition, I argue that, against common belief, Jespersen’s Cycle is at best indirectly related to the type of …
The syntax of polarity emphasis
The distribution of preverbal en in (West) Flemish
A (Very) Imperfect Sandwich
Based on a comparative corpus study, the present paper contrasts conditionals containing the modal verbs sollte in German, should in English, and mocht/moest in Dutch. The conditionals are examined with respect to the linkage levels between protasis and apodosis, the tense/mood patterns in the two clauses, and the degree of syntactic integration of the protasis into the apodosis. We argue that sollte, should, mocht , and moest are undergoing a pr…
An automatic part-of-speech tagger for Middle Low German
Syntactically annotated corpora are highly important for enabling large-scale diachronic and diatopic language research. Such corpora have recently been developed for a variety of historical languages, or are still under development. One of those under development is the fully tagged and parsed Corpus of Historical Low German (CHLG), which is aimed at facilitating research into the highly under-researched diachronic syntax of Low German. The pres…
The determinants of diachronic stability
While much of the literature has focused on explaining diachronic variation and change, the fact that sometimes change does not seem to happen has received much less attention. The current volume unites ten contributions that look for the determinants of diachronic stability, mainly in the areas of morphology and (morpho)syntax. The relevant question is approached from different angles, both empirical and theoretical. Empirically, the contributio…
Determinants of Diachronic Stability
Interpreting (un)interpretability
published
Complexity as L2-difficulty
Recent work has cast doubt on the idea that all languages are equally complex; however, the notion of syntactic complexity remains underexplored. Taking complexity to equate to difficulty of acquisition for late L2 acquirers, we propose an operationalization of syntactic complexity in terms of uninterpretable features. Trudgill’s sociolinguistic typology predicts that sociohistorical situations involving substantial late L2 acquisition should be …
The Negative Cycle and Beyond
The expression of negation shows significant typological variation, for example by adverbial particles or verbs. In some languages, the different strategies are diachronically related, and the formal expression of negation can undergo a cyclic renewal. This chapter discusses the different lexical sources for the grammaticalization of new negative markers, and the formal processes involved. It also broaches on some open questions, such as why some…
Prosodie, Syntax und Diskursfunktion von V>2 in gesprochenem Deutsch
German is a V2 language, apart from a small number of exceptions which lead to superficial later positioning of the finite verb (V>2), which are regarded as compatible with the underlying V2-property. However, the more recent literature has identified a number of V>2 cases which are not easily reconcilable with a V2-syntax, such as V2-clauses preceded by a `central' adverbial without inversion. Such Adv-S-V fin cases were first described for mult…
An den Grenzen des Systems
Normally, translated texts are avoided in research into the syntax of older stages of a language in order to avoid erroneous analyses of potential influences from the source language. However, autochthonous texts, too, sometimes raise doubts as to their representativeness for a given stage of the language. The current article aims to see how much independent Middle Low German syntax can be found in two different psalm translations. This serves to…
Diachrony and Diachronica
In this second set of contributions on the 40th anniversary of Diachronica, seven historical linguists provide perspectives on the current state of the field and aims for the future. While the authors in issue 40.4 focused on the ideas that have structured the field – the actuation problem, the relationship between synchrony and diachrony, and how we do our work – this current set of contributions focus on method: what we do, how and why we do it…
Computer Science (19 obras) · Linguistics (18 obras) · Philosophy (17 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (14 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (10 obras) · German (9 obras) · History (6 obras) · Negation (6 obras) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (5 obras) · Linguistic research and analysis (5 obras)