Germanic Genitives
Edited by Tanja Ackermann, Horst J. Simon and Christian Zimmer
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 193] 2018. vi, 327 pp.
Tanja Ackermann
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tanja Ackermann plays a role.
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Subjects Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2021 Pre- and postnominal onymic genitives in (Early) New High German: A multifactorial analysis Journal of Historical Linguistics 11:3, pp. 499–533 | Article
This empirical study focuses on the diachrony of adnominal genitives of proper names in (Early) New High German (17th to 19th centuries), e.g., Carls Haus vs. das Haus Carls ‘Carl’s house’. Starting from the observation that word order variation exists within the whole period investigated, the… read more
2019 Possessive -s in German: Development, variation and theoretical status Morphological Variation: Theoretical and empirical perspectives, Dammel, Antje and Oliver Schallert (eds.), pp. 27–62 | Chapter
In several Germanic languages, such as English and Swedish, the former genitive morpheme -s has developed into a possessive marker, which has been described as a special clitic by some scholars. Synchronic and diachronic corpus data as well as a comparison with English and Dutch show that German… read more
2018 From genitive inflection to possessive marker? The development of German possessive ‑s with personal names Germanic Genitives, Ackermann, Tanja, Horst J. Simon and Christian Zimmer (eds.), pp. 189–230 | Chapter
This paper deals with the status of the s-marker with personal names in German from a diachronic perspective. On the basis of corpus data it is argued that the deflexion of personal names in genitive phrases is much more advanced than it has been claimed in the literature: only the invariant marker… read more
2018 Genitives in Germanic Germanic Genitives, Ackermann, Tanja, Horst J. Simon and Christian Zimmer (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Chapter