Stephen Laker
List of John Benjamins publications in which Stephen Laker is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0108-8416 | E‑ISSN 2212‑9715
Book series
Titles
Germanic Interrelations: Studies in memory of Hans Frede Nielsen
Edited by Stephen Laker, Carla Falluomini, Steffen Krogh, Robert Nedoma and Michael Schulte
This volume celebrates Hans Frede Nielsen’s contribution to the field of Germanic studies and his work as founding editor of the journal and book series North-Western European Language Evolution. Twenty peer-reviewed articles explore a broad range of topics involving North and West Germanic… read more
Historical Germanic morphosyntax
Edited by Stephen Laker and John Ole Askedal
Special issue of NOWELE 74:2 (2021) v, 155 pp.
Early history of the North Sea Germanic languages
Edited by Stephen Laker and Hans Frede Nielsen †
Special issue of NOWELE 74:1 (2021) v, 151 pp.
Articles
2025 Relativsätze im Saterfriesischen Germanic Interrelations: Studies in memory of Hans Frede Nielsen, Laker, Stephen, Carla Falluomini, Steffen Krogh, Robert Nedoma and Michael Schulte (eds.), pp. 173–201 | Chapter
The article surveys relative clauses in Saterland Frisian based on a corpus of written and spoken language. Although the spoken language tends towards short coordinated sentences rather than complex subordinate structures, relative clauses are also found with some frequency. Some relative… read more
2022 Der an’t -Progressiv im Saterfriesischen From West to North Frisia: A Journey along the North Sea Coast, Walker, Alastair, Eric Hoekstra, Goffe Jensma, Wendy Vanselow, Willem Visser and Christoph Winter (eds.), pp. 206–225 | Chapter
Progressive constructions have been studied across a range of West Germanic languages but not yet in Saterland Frisian. Over five-hundred sentences of the an’t-progressive, collected from Saterland Frisian spoken and written materials, form the core of this study. Based on the surveyed material,… read more
2021 Palatalization and assibilation of /k/ in English and Scottish place-names Early history of the North Sea Germanic languages, Laker, Stephen and Hans Frede Nielsen † (eds.), pp. 80–115 | Article
There are very few place-names with initial Ch- [tʃ-] in Scotland, Northern England and much of the East Midlands. Names that do exist are almost exclusively late formations and usually consist of French rather than Old English place-name elements. This article investigates the reasons why… read more