Heike Necker

List of John Benjamins publications in which Heike Necker is involved.

Articles

Necker, Heike 2012 Modifying suffixes in Italian and the Autonomy of Morphology Inflection and Word Formation in Romance Languages, Gaglia, Sascha and Marc-Olivier Hinzelin (eds.), pp. 295–318 | Article

This study addresses restrictions concerning morphological modification in modern spoken Italian – the formation of diminutives, augmentatives and pejoratives by means of modifying suffixes (MS). Three purely morphological restrictions have been found (Necker 2005, 2006): (i) de-adjectival nouns… read more

Mirto, Ignazio Mauro and Heike Necker 2007 Complex nominal determiners: A contrastive study Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas: Convergencies from a historical and typological perspective, Ramat, Paolo and Elisa Roma (eds.), pp. 215–243 | Article

This paper advances the idea that in German, Italian and English multi-word determiner phrases, termed Complex Nominal Determiners (CND), exist which are formed by at least a noun (N1) followed by a preposition ( von, di, of ). CNDs either quantify the referent of the noun they determine (N2) or… read more