Ulrike Demske

orcid.org/0000-0002-8427-648X

List of John Benjamins publications for which Ulrike Demske plays a role.

Book series

Studies in Germanic Linguistics (SiGL)

Edited by Michael T. Putnam, B. Richard Page and Laura Catharine Smith

ISSN 2452-2120

Journal

Title

The Diachrony of Infinitival Patterns: Their origin, development and loss

Edited by Ulrike Demske and Łukasz Jędrzejowski

Special issue of Journal of Historical Linguistics 5:1 (2015) v, 174 pp.

Subjects Historical linguistics

Articles

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Demske, Ulrike 2020 The grammaticalization of the definite article in German: From demonstratives to weak definites Walking on the Grammaticalization Path of the Definite Article: Functional Main and Side Roads, Szczepaniak, Renata and Johanna Flick (eds.), pp. 43–74 | Chapter

The present paper looks into the grammaticalization of the definite article in the history of German. Starting with the well-known emergence of the definite article from a demonstrative pronoun over the course of Old High German (750–1050), I will consider the rise of so-called weak definites in… read more

Demske, Ulrike 2015 Review of Haegeman (2012): Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena, and the Composition of the Left Periphery Studies in Language 39:1, pp. 236–244 | Review

Demske, Ulrike 2015 Towards coherent infinitival patterns in the history of German The Diachrony of Infinitival Patterns: Their origin, development and loss, Demske, Ulrike and Łukasz Jędrzejowski (eds.), pp. 6–40 | Article

According to Haider (2010), we have to distinguish three types of infinitival complements in Present-Day German: (i) CP complements, (ii) VP complements and (iii) verbal clusters. While CP complements give rise to biclausal structures, VP complements and verbal clusters indicate a monoclausal… read more