The Determinants of Diachronic Stability
Edited by Anne Breitbarth, Miriam Bouzouita, Lieven Danckaert and Melissa Farasyn
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 254] 2019. vi, 294 pp.
Melissa Farasyn
List of John Benjamins publications for which Melissa Farasyn plays a role.
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Subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Articles
2019 Chapter 1. The determinants of diachronic stability The Determinants of Diachronic Stability, Breitbarth, Anne, Miriam Bouzouita, Lieven Danckaert and Melissa Farasyn (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Chapter
2019 Chapter 3. Apparent competing agreement patterns in Middle Low German non-restrictive relative clauses with a first or second person head The Determinants of Diachronic Stability, Breitbarth, Anne, Miriam Bouzouita, Lieven Danckaert and Melissa Farasyn (eds.), pp. 39–68 | Chapter
This paper updates Farasyn (2017), who charted the agreement patterns found in Middle Low German (non-restrictive) relative clauses with a first or second person head. In related West Germanic languages, these clauses show different types of agreement patterns. This study presents new corpus data… read more
2018 The interplay between genre variation and syntax in a historical Low German corpus Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change, Whitt, Richard J. (ed.), pp. 281–300 | Chapter
In this chapter, we focus on the choice of different genres in the Middle Low German part of the tagged and parsed Corpus of Historical Low German and its implications for syntax. We discuss how the inclusion or exclusion of genres has an impact on the study and the discovery of syntactic phenomena… read more
2017 An automatic part-of-speech tagger for Middle Low German International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 22:1, pp. 107–140 | Article
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… read more