Thilo Weber

List of John Benjamins publications in which Thilo Weber is involved.

Title

Free Variation in Grammar: Empirical and theoretical approaches

Edited by Kristin Kopf and Thilo Weber

Recent years have seen a growing interest in grammatical variation, a core explanandum of grammatical theory. The present volume explores questions that are fundamental to this line of research: First, the question of whether variation can always and completely be explained by intra- or… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 234] 2023. vi, 352 pp. | open access

Articles

Weber, Thilo and Kristin Kopf 2023 Chapter 1. Free variation, unexplained variation? Free Variation in Grammar: Empirical and theoretical approaches, Kopf, Kristin and Thilo Weber (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter

Seiler, Guido and Thilo Weber 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