Guido Seiler
List of John Benjamins publications in which Guido Seiler is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2589-1588 | E‑ISSN 2589‑1596
Title
The Dialect Laboratory: Dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change
Edited by Gunther De Vogelaer and Guido Seiler
Much theorizing in language change research is made without taking into account dialect data. Yet, dialects seem to be superior data to build a theory of linguistic change on, since dialects are relatively free of standardization and therefore more tolerant of variant competition in grammar. In… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 128] 2012. vi, 297 pp.
Articles
2022 Reichenbach meets underspecification: A novel approach to the perfect-past-cycle in German (and elsewhere) Journal of Historical Linguistics 12:1, pp. 108–166 | Article
This paper investigates the long-term diachronic development of the perfect and preterite tenses in German and provides a novel analysis by supplementing Reichenbach’s (1947) classical theory of tense by the notion of underspecification. Based on a newly compiled parallel corpus spanning the… read more
2012 The dialect laboratory: Introductory remarks The Dialect Laboratory: Dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change, De Vogelaer, Gunther and Guido Seiler (eds.), pp. 1–32 | Article
2006 The role of functional factors in language change: An evolutionary approach Competing Models of Linguistic Change: Evolution and beyond, Nedergaard Thomsen, Ole (ed.), pp. 163–182 | Article