Laura Catharine Smith
List of John Benjamins publications in which Laura Catharine Smith is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2452-2120
2012 Old Frisian: Renewed interest in an ‘old’ Germanic language Diachronica 29:1, pp. 98–115 | Article
For a century, Old Frisian has largely remained in the shadows of its Germanic sister languages. While dictionaries, concordances, and grammars have been readily and widely available for learning and researching other Germanic languages such as Middle High German, Middle Low German and Middle… read more
2009 Dialect variation and the Dutch diminutive: The role of prosodic templates Historical Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6–11 August 2007, Dufresne, Monique, Fernande Dupuis and Etleva Vocaj (eds.), pp. 37–46 | Article
In Dutch, the diminutive stem’s prosodic shape determines whether or not schwa follows base nouns ending in sonorants: schwa after light stems (ball-e-tje ‘little ball’) but no schwa after heavy stems (laan-tje ‘little lane’) or disyllables (bakker-tje ‘little baker’). Schwa lengthens light stems… read more
2008
Historical Phonology and Evolutionary Phonology
Diachronica 25:3, pp. 411–430 | Review article
2007 The resilience of prosodic templates in the history of West Germanic Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July - 5 August 2005, Salmons, Joseph C. and Shannon Dubenion-Smith (eds.), pp. 351–365 | Article