Frans Plank
List of John Benjamins publications in which Frans Plank is involved.
Book series
ISSN 0167-7373
Title
Language and Earth: Elective affinities between the emerging sciences of linguistics and geology
Edited by Bernd Naumann, Frans Plank and Gottfried Hofbauer
In former times, the study of language was rarely pursued in isolation, and many of the other intellectual concerns that used to be intertwined with language study have long been on the record of historians of linguistics. The present volume is the first to probe into an association of linguistics… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 66] 1992. xvi, 445 pp.
2025 Patterns of suppletion in inflection revisited: What the Crossover Constraint constrains Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022, Kennard, Holly, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri and Martin Maiden (eds.), pp. 128–149 | Chapter
Examining the distribution of suppletive stems over inflectional paradigms, a constraint on their complexity, call it Crossover Constraint, is shown to be untenable. There are paradigms, in some languages at some stage of their development, where suppletive distributions are maximally complex —… read more
2015 Time for change Perspectives on Historical Syntax, Viti, Carlotta (ed.), pp. 61–92 | Article
In order to get an angle on deep-time historical relationships between languages, beyond what can be fathomed by the Comparative Method, and in order to model and thereby understand the evolution of typological diversity, attention is increasingly being paid to the question of time-stability of… read more
2011 Differential time stability in categorial change: Family names from nouns and adjectives, illustrated from German Journal of Historical Linguistics 1:2, pp. 269–292 | Article
Change affects different parts of the lexicon and grammar differently, and in particular some parts are more time-stable than others. The creation of family names from words of other classes is an example, and many such examples need to be examined before credible generalizations can be made about… read more
2006 The regular and the extended comitative reciprocal construction, illustrated from German Voice and Grammatical Relations: In Honor of Masayoshi Shibatani, Tsunoda, Tasaku and Taro Kageyama (eds.), pp. 247–270 | Article
2004 Inevitable reanalysis: From local adpositions to approximative adnumerals, in German and wherever Studies in Language 28:1, pp. 165–201 | Article
When local adpositions, whatever their own sources, are metaphorically extended to the domain of numerical approximation (as in ‘around five bottles’), as they not uncommonly are, and when such expressions are then admitted to grammatical relations otherwise reserved for noun phrases, such as… read more
2000 Foreword Grammatical Relations in Romani: The Noun Phrase, Elšík, Viktor and Yaron Matras (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Foreword
1993 Peculiarities of Passives of Reflexives in German Studies in Language 17:1, pp. 135–167 | Article
Cross-linguistically unusual though it is for active clauses with reflexive pronouns as objects to be passivizable, German does permit such passives. Passives with reflexives, widely neglected in German grammar, are examined against the backdrop of purportedly general constraints on the control of… read more
1992 Preface Language and Earth: Elective affinities between the emerging sciences of linguistics and geology, Naumann, Bernd, Frans Plank and Gottfried Hofbauer (eds.), pp. xiii–xvi | Preface
1992 Language and Earth as Recycling Machines Language and Earth: Elective affinities between the emerging sciences of linguistics and geology, Naumann, Bernd, Frans Plank and Gottfried Hofbauer (eds.), pp. 221–269 | Article
1990 Paradigm arrangement and inflectional homonymy: old English case Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Adamson, Sylvia M., Vivien A. Law, Nigel Vincent and Susan Wright (eds.), pp. 379–406 | Article
1990 Greenlandic in comparison: Marcus Wöldike’s “Meletema” (1746) Historiographia Linguistica 17:3, pp. 309–338 | Article
The first descriptive grammar of Greenlandic Eskimo was published in 1760 by Paul Egede, continuing the work of his father, Hans, and his missionary collaborator, Albert Top. Curiously, however, the comparative study of Greenlandic had already been inaugurated in 1745, when Marcus Wöldike… read more
1989 On Humboldt on the Dual Linguistic Categorization: Proceedings of an International Symposium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 10–11, 1987, Corrigan, Roberta, Fred Eckman and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. 293–333 | Article
1987 Number neutralization in old English: failure of functionalism? Explanation and Linguistic Change, Koopman, Willem F., Frederike van der Leek, Olga Fischer and Roger Eaton (eds.), pp. 177–238 | Article
1985 The interpretation and development of form alternations conditioned across word boundaries: The case of Wife’s, Wives and Wives’ Papers from the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, April 10–13, 1985, Eaton, Roger, Olga Fischer, Willem F. Koopman and Frederike van der Leek (eds.), pp. 205–234 | Article
1984 The Modals Story Retold Studies in Language 8:3, pp. 305–364 | Article