Ursula Schaefer
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ursula Schaefer is involved.
Articles
2011 Travelling the paths of discourse traditions: A sample analysis of the lexical innovation blisfulnesse in Chaucer's Boece Multilingual Discourse Production: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives, Kranich, Svenja, Viktor Becher, Steffen Höder and Juliane House (eds.), pp. 45–70 | Article
Translation from Latin is credited as an indispensible source for the elaboration of the written medieval vernaculars. In my contribution I will argue that this perception may result from confusing the concept of ‘source’ language with that of a ‘model’ language. Moreover I will show that for… read more
2008 'Tis he, 'tis she, 'tis me, 'tis – I don't know who … cleft and identificational constructions in 16th to 18th century English plays English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006, Gotti, Maurizio, Marina Dossena and Richard Dury (eds.), pp. 203–221 | Article
It is generally assumed that the construction It is me emerged in the 16th century as the more colloquial alternative to It is I. In this paper, we focus on the structure and distribution of two constructions featuring It is I/me, namely cleft constructions (ClCs) and identificational copular… read more