Tamás Eitler
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tamás Eitler is involved.
Articles
2021 Chapter 13. Language contact and competition in the periphrastic perfect in Early English The Perfect Volume: Papers on the perfect, Eide, Kristin Melum and Marc Fryd (eds.), pp. 319–342 | Chapter
Based on data drawn from the computerised Helsinki Corpus, the paper investigates the extent to which the use of competing English perfective auxiliaries was influenced by language contact with Old Norse in the Late Old English period. It is shown that as in the Danelaw areas the have-perfect… read more
2014 Word order variation in late Middle English: The effect of information structure and audience design Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages, Bech, Kristin and Kristine Gunn Eide (eds.), pp. 203–232 | Article
This paper discusses the considerable word order variation that existed at the end of the Middle English period, by studying four prose texts written by the same author, John Capgrave. The data are investigated in terms of information structure, and we identify the effect of three different… read more
2005 Some dialectal, sociolectal and communicative aspects of word order variation and change in Late Middle English Historical Linguistics 2003: Selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11–15 August 2003, Fortescue, Michael, Eva Skafte Jensen, Jens Erik Mogensen and Lene Schøsler (eds.), pp. 87–102 | Article