Ulrike Demske

orcid.org/0000-0002-8427-648X

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ulrike Demske is involved.

Book series

Studies in Germanic Linguistics

Edited by Michael T. Putnam, Laura Catharine Smith, David Natvig and Hanna Fischer

ISSN 2452-2120

Journal

Diachronica

International Journal for Historical Linguistics

Edited by Claire Bowern

ISSN 0176-4225 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9714

Title

The Diachrony of Infinitival Patterns: Their origin, development and loss

Edited by Ulrike Demske and Łukasz Jędrzejowski

Special issue of Journal of Historical Linguistics 5:1 (2015) v, 174 pp.

Articles (7) | Order by:

De Cesare, Ilaria, Sina Bosch, Claudia Felser and Ulrike Demske 2024 Word order change in German infinitival complementation: The role of processing factors Diachronica 41:5, pp. 575–604 | Article

The present article discusses whether processing factors might play a role in the reduction of word order variability in German infinitival complements of control verbs, connecting evidence from a diachronic corpus study to processing considerations and psycholinguistic findings. We show that… read more

Demske, Ulrike 2020 The grammaticalization of the definite article in German: From demonstratives to weak definites Walking on the Grammaticalization Path of the Definite Article: Functional Main and Side Roads, Szczepaniak, Renata and Johanna Flick (eds.), pp. 43–74 | Chapter

The present paper looks into the grammaticalization of the definite article in the history of German. Starting with the well-known emergence of the definite article from a demonstrative pronoun over the course of Old High German (750–1050), I will consider the rise of so-called weak definites in… read more

Demske, Ulrike 2015 Review of Haegeman (2012): Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena, and the Composition of the Left Periphery Studies in Language 39:1, pp. 236–244 | Review

Demske, Ulrike 2015 Towards coherent infinitival patterns in the history of German The Diachrony of Infinitival Patterns: Their origin, development and loss, Demske, Ulrike and Łukasz Jędrzejowski (eds.), pp. 6–40 | Article

According to Haider (2010), we have to distinguish three types of infinitival complements in Present-Day German: (i) CP complements, (ii) VP complements and (iii) verbal clusters. While CP complements give rise to biclausal structures, VP complements and verbal clusters indicate a monoclausal… read more

Demske, Ulrike 2009 Review of Donhauser, Fischer & Mecklenburg (2007): The Mouton Interactive Introduction to Historical Linguistics of German Diachronica 26:1, pp. 117–124 | Review

Demske, Ulrike 2008 Raising patterns in Old High German Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal papers, Eythórsson, Thórhallur (ed.), pp. 143–172 | Article

Demske, Ulrike 2007 The Rise of the To-Infinitive. By Bettelou Los Diachronica 24:1, pp. 182–191 | Miscellaneous