Thomas Leu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Thomas Leu is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 6. Nǎlǐ nàlǐ — ça , c’est quoi? A comparative note on that and where The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky, Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci and Andrew Nevins (eds.), pp. 101–117 | Chapter
Function words are often considered morphosyntactically monolithic, and partial formal similarities between them are easily dismissed as (synchronically) accidental, as evidence for decomposition may be sparse within individual languages. Recurrence in unrelated languages of such similarities,… read more
2009 The internal syntax of jeder ‘every’ Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2009, van Craenenbroeck, Jeroen (ed.), pp. 153–204 | Article
In this paper I explore the elements that make up the German distributive universal quantifier jeder, and the structural relationships among them. I argue that jeder consists of three overt morphemes je-d-er, which are heads in an extended adjectival projection (xAP). Their relative order is… read more