Paola Crisma

List of John Benjamins publications in which Paola Crisma is involved.

Articles

Crisma, Paola 2011 The emergence of the definite article in English: A contact-induced change? The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic: Structure, variation, and change, Sleeman, Petra and Harry Perridon (eds.), pp. 175–192 | Article

In this paper, based on quantitative evidence collected on the YCOE, I argue that the establishment of the definite article in English is no later than the last quarter of the 9th century, being regularly used in Old English prose of the ‘Alfredian’ period. This dating enables one to exclude the… read more

Crisma, Paola and Chiara Gianollo 2006 Where did Romance N-Raising come from? A Parallel Study of Parameter Resetting in Latin and English Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2004: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Leiden, 9–11 December 2004, Doetjes, Jenny and Paz González (eds.), pp. 71–93 | Article

Crisma, Paola 1996 On the configurational nature of adjectival modification Grammatical Theory and Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 25th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXV) Seattle, 2–4 March 1995, Zagona, Karen (ed.), pp. 59–72 | Article