Alexandra N. Lenz
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alexandra N. Lenz is involved.
Articles
2021 Variation and dynamics of “complementizer agreement” in German: Analyses from the Austrian language area Linguistic Variation 21:2, pp. 322–369 | Article
To date, there has been limited empirical research on complementizer agreement (CA). We investigate CA drawing on a corpus of 144 speakers from 13 locations across Austria that was elicited through computer supported language production experiments and recorded in conversations. We investigate… read more
2013 Three “competing” auxiliaries of a non-canonical passive: On the German GET passive and its auxiliaries Non-Canonical Passives, Alexiadou, Artemis and Florian Schäfer (eds.), pp. 63–94 | Article
This paper focuses on the German GET passive and its auxiliaries kriegen ‘to get/receive’, bekommen ‘to get/receive’ and erhalten ‘to receive’. Although the co-existence of three auxiliaries is unique for Germanic GET passives, research to date has provided very limited information with respect to… read more
2012 On the genesis of the German recipient passive – Two competing hypotheses in the light of current dialect data The Dialect Laboratory: Dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change, De Vogelaer, Gunther and Guido Seiler (eds.), pp. 121–138 | Article
The focus of this paper is on the genesis of the German recipient passive (German GET passive). Although much theoretical and empirical research has already been carried out, there are still a number of unresolved questions concerning this phenomenon. One central problem still disputed is the… read more