Christopher D. Sapp
List of John Benjamins publications for which Christopher D. Sapp plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 2452-2120
Titles
Dating the Old Norse Poetic Edda: A multifactorial analysis of linguistic features
Christopher D. Sapp
[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 5] 2022. xii, 246 pp.
Subjects Germanic linguistics | Germanic literature & literary studies | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Quantifying Expressions in the History of German: Syntactic reanalysis and morphological change
Dorian Roehrs and Christopher D. Sapp
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 230] 2016. xvii, 299 pp.
Subjects Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Verbal Complex in Subordinate Clauses from Medieval to Modern German
Christopher D. Sapp
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 173] 2011. ix, 225 pp.
Subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2016 Word order patterns in the Old High German right periphery and their Indo-European origins Diachronica 33:3, pp. 367–411 | Article
I investigate deviations from the OV order in the OHG texts Isidor and Tatian. Abstracting away from cases of verb-second, post-verbal constituents tend to be heavy or focused. OHG thus has a head-final VP with extraposition of NPs and PPs. Likewise, verbal complexes with the order finite before… read more
2013 Review of Fleischer & Schallert (2011): Historische Syntax des Deutschen: Eine Einführung Diachronica 30:1, pp. 135–140 | Review