Kurt Braunmüller
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kurt Braunmüller is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1571-4934
Stability and Divergence in Language Contact: Factors and Mechanisms
Edited by Kurt Braunmüller, Steffen Höder and Karoline Kühl
Convergence, i.e. the increase of inter-systemic similarities, is usually considered the default development in language contact situations. This volume focuses on the other logical possibilities of diachronic development, namely stability and divergence – two well-attested, but under-researched… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 16] 2014. vi, 298 pp.
Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies
Edited by Kurt Braunmüller and Christoph Gabriel
The 25 contributions of this volume represent a selection from the more than 120 papers originally presented at the International Conference on “Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies” (MIMS), held in Hamburg (October 2010) and organized by the Collaborative Research Center… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 13] 2012. xiv, 474 pp.
Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations
Edited by Kurt Braunmüller and Juliane House
This book deals with the consequences of converging and diverging processes and their development in language contact situations. It provides insights into the various forms of language contact and the conditions under which bilingual speakers master their every-day life in bilingual communities.… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 8] 2009. viii, 241 pp.
Aspects of Multilingualism in European Language History
Edited by Kurt Braunmüller and Gisella Ferraresi
This volume gives an up-to-date account of various situations of language contact and multilingualism in Europe especially from a historical point of view. Its ten contributions present newly collected data from different parts of the continent seen through diverse theoretical perspectives. They… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 2] 2003. viii, 289 pp.
2018 On the role of cases and possession in Germanic: A typological approach Germanic Genitives, Ackermann, Tanja, Horst J. Simon and Christian Zimmer (eds.), pp. 301–323 | Chapter
The Germanic languages exhibit several interesting developments with respect to genitive and ‘possession’. The genitive cannot be considered a structural case in line with the nominative or accusative, the function of which can often be expressed by word order alone. It has a very complex semantic… read more
2014 Introduction Stability and Divergence in Language Contact: Factors and Mechanisms, Braunmüller, Kurt, Steffen Höder and Karoline Kühl (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
2014 Review of Stenroos, Mäkinen & Særheim (2012): Language Contact and Development around the North Sea NOWELE 67:2, pp. 251–255 | Review
2014 Linguistic stability and divergence: An extended perspective on language contact Stability and Divergence in Language Contact: Factors and Mechanisms, Braunmüller, Kurt, Steffen Höder and Karoline Kühl (eds.), pp. 13–38 | Article
In contrast to the amount of research that has been performed on linguistic
convergence in language contact, this paper focuses on the possibility of linguistic
systems remaining stable, or even diverging, in language contact settings. It
carves out multiple relevant mechanisms and factors that… read more
2012 Foreword Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies, Braunmüller, Kurt and Christoph Gabriel (eds.), pp. xi–xv | Foreword
2009 Converging genetically related languages: Endstation code mixing? Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations, Braunmüller, Kurt and Juliane House (eds.), pp. 53–70 | Article
The main goal of this paper is to investigate and model the impact of genetically close relationships between languages in contact situations and to describe the consequences for bilingual speakers living in bilingual communities. Both Muysken’s concept of “congruent lexicalization” and… read more
2007 1. Receptive multilingualism in Northern Europe in the Middle Ages: A description of a scenario Receptive Multilingualism: Linguistic analyses, language policies and didactic concepts, Thije, Jan D. ten and Ludger Zeevaert (eds.), pp. 25–47 | Article
This paper gives a survey of the linguistic situation in northern Europe in the late Middle Ages. It is based on three earlier research projects and summarises some of their results, especially as far as language choice and domains are concerned. The focus lies, however, on the development, role… read more
2006 Allegro- und Prestoregeln in Runeninschriften NOWELE Volume 49 (August 2006), pp. 87–111 | Article
2004 Review of Faarlund (2003): Språk i endring. Indre norsk språkhistorie NOWELE Volume 45 (October 2004), pp. 109–117 | Review
2004 Plädoyer für Eine Umorientierung in der Beschreibung von Sprachwandel-Prozessen NOWELE Volume 44 (March 2004), pp. 21–49 | Article
2003 Introduction Aspects of Multilingualism in European Language History, Braunmüller, Kurt and Gisella Ferraresi (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Miscellaneous
1997 Zur Typologischen Einordnung des Nordfriesischen Friesische Studien III: Beiträge des Föhrer Symposiums zur Friesischen Philologie vom 11.–12. April 1996, Faltings, Volkert F., Alastair Walker und Ommo Wilts (Hrsg.), pp. 163–193 | Article
1986 Mittelalterliche sprachanalysen: einige anmerkungen aus heutiger sicht Germanic Dialects: Linguistic and Philological Investigations, Brogyanyi, Bela and Thomas Krömmelbein (eds.), pp. 43–79 | Article