Kirsten Gather
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kirsten Gather is involved.
Articles
2019 Paradigm shifts in 19th-century British grammar writing: A network of texts and authors Norms and Conventions in the History of English, Bös, Birte and Claudia Claridge (eds.), pp. 49–72 | Chapter
Systematic and comprehensive linguistic studies of 19th-century British grammar books are scarce. This is surprising since the 19th century has often been claimed to constitute a turning point in English grammar writing, particularly due to the assumed paradigm shift from prescriptive works to… read more
2018 Chapter 7. “A riddle to myself I am”: Argument shifting in English congregational song between 1500 and 1900 Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English, Petré, Peter, Hubert Cuyckens and Frauke D'hoedt (eds.), pp. 151–180 | Chapter
This article presents and refines the main results of a larger study on left-shifted arguments in congregational song (see Gather 2014) and discusses its implications for genre studies in general. Argument shifting1 is defined as the deviation from any unmarked order of obligatory arguments, as in… read more