Kate Burridge
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kate Burridge plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 0172-8865 | E-ISSN 1569-9730
Titles
Historical Linguistics 2001: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 13–17 August 2001
Edited by Barry J. Blake and Kate Burridge
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 237] 2003. ix, 442 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Syntactic Change in Germanic: Aspects of language change in Germanic with particular reference to Middle Dutch
Kate Burridge
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 89] 1993. xii, 287 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Syntax
Articles
2021 Circumnavigating taboos: A functional and formal typology Sex, Death & Politics: Taboos in Language, Keller, Melanie, Philipp Striedl, Daniel Biro, Johanna Holzer and Benjamin Weber (eds.), pp. 5–24 | Article
This article elaborates on Wolfgang Schulze’s keynote speech of the same title at the 26th LIPP Symposium in Munich in 2019. It is based on the slides from his talk and various teaching materials, of which some figures have been translated from German to English before their inclusion in this… read more
2019 Chapter 3. The obelisk and the asterisk: Early to Late Modern Views on Language and Change Processes of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English, Jansen, Sandra and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter
This chapter explores the complexities of the prescriptive-descriptive divide as revealed in three dictionaries from the early to late Modern English period. Lexicographers had not yet arrived at the idea that dictionaries should include all words; hence, those they chose to record in permanent… read more
2015 Chapter 3. The body, the universe, society and language: Germanic in the grip of the unknown Language Structure and Environment: Social, cultural, and natural factors, De Busser, Rik and Randy J. LaPolla (eds.), pp. 45–76 | Article
The focus of this chapter is on the grammatical expression of the unknown and its role as a force for linguistic change at different times in Germanic. The paper opens with a brief look at modern Pennsylvania German, the language spoken by ultra-conservative Anabaptist groups in North America. This… read more
2011 From preposition to purposive to infinitival marker: The Pennsylvania German fer…zu construction Studies on German-Language Islands, Putnam, Michael T. (ed.), pp. 385–412 | Article
The development from an allative preposition to a purposive marker to an infinitival marker is a common one cross-linguistically. In this paper, we look in some detail at this change in Pennsylvania German. We demonstrate that fer has completed this change in that it now occurs in a full range of… read more
2010 A peculiar language’: Linguistic evidence for early Australian English Varieties of English in Writing: The written word as linguistic evidence, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 295–348 | Article
In his A Letter from Sydney of 1829, Edward Wakefield described the language he encountered in the new colony as “peculiar” (in other words, it was distinctive). This paper aims at contributing to our understanding of the linguistic processes that were going on at that time, particularly the… read more
2009 Swearing Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond, Peters, Pam, Peter Collins and Adam Smith (eds.), pp. 359–384 | Article
In this chapter, we provide an account of antipodean swearing patterns, drawing on examples from existing written and spoken data banks. As part of this investigation, we consider general questions to do with swearing: what it is, why speakers do it and how swearing patterns have changed over the… read more
1998 From modal auxiliary to lexical verb: the curious case of Pennsylvania German wotte Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 2: Germanic linguistics, Hogg, Richard M. and Linda van Bergen (eds.), pp. 19 ff. | Article
1998 Throw the baby from the window a cookie: English and Pennsylvania German in contact Case, Typology and Grammar: In honor of Barry J. Blake, Siewierska, Anna and Jae Jung Song (eds.), pp. 71 ff. | Article
1998 Euphemism with Attitude: Politically Charged Language Change Historical Linguistics 1997: Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, 10–17 August 1997, Schmid, Monika S., Jennifer R. Austin and Dieter Stein (eds.), pp. 57 ff. | Article
1995 Evidence of grammaticalization in Pennsylvania German Historical Linguistics 1993: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Los Angeles, 16–20 August 1993, Andersen, Henning (ed.), pp. 59 ff. | Article
1993 The female radical: Portrayal of women in the Chinese script Language and Gender in the Australian Context, Winter, Joanne and Gillian Wigglesworth (eds.), pp. 54–85 | Article
The paper discusses the sexist portrayal of women in Mandarin Chinese. It begins with a study of asymmetries in the lexicon; e.g. naming conventions, address terms, abuse terms, etc. which exemplify the marginalisation of Chinese women. The focus of the paper is on the stereotyped depiction of… read more
