Ellen Brandner
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ellen Brandner is involved.
2012 Crossing the lake: Motion verb constructions in Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss German Comparative Germanic Syntax: The state of the art, Ackema, Peter, Rhona Alcorn, Caroline Heycock, Dany Jaspers, Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (eds.), pp. 67–98 | Article
The Alemannic dialects spoken in Switzerland and in south-western Germany are structurally very similar. This seems to extend to the motion verb construction where the motion verb is obligatorily followed by an element gi/go followed by an infinitive. Upon closer inspection, however, intriguing… read more
2006 Bare Infinitives in Alemannic and the Categorial Status of Infinitival Complements Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2006, Pica, Pierre (ed.), pp. 203–268 | Article
This article deals mainly with the distribution and function of the infinitival marker in Standard German and in Alemannic, a dialect spoken in Southern Germany.* At first sight both form and distribution differ in these two variants to a great extent. The most important difference is that… read more
2000 Scope Marking and Calusal Typing Wh-Scope Marking, Lutz, Uli, Gereon Müller and Arnim von Stechow (eds.), pp. 45–75 | Article
1993 The Projection of Categories and the Nature of Agreement The Parametrization of Universal Grammar, Fanselow, Gisbert (ed.), pp. 73–122 | Article