Elke Ronneberger-Sibold
List of John Benjamins publications in which Elke Ronneberger-Sibold is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0108-8416 | E‑ISSN 2212‑9715
2020 The role of the definite article in the rise of the German Framing Principle: A comparative study of verbal and nominal constructions in the Old High German Muspilli and the Old English Dream of the Rood Walking on the Grammaticalization Path of the Definite Article: Functional Main and Side Roads, Szczepaniak, Renata and Johanna Flick (eds.), pp. 97–128 | Chapter
This paper develops ideas broached in Ronneberger-Sibold (2010) on the origins of the divergent typological developments of English towards a “classical” analytic S-V-O language, and German into a “framing” language, in which the dominating typologically relevant feature is the framing of… read more
2018 The history of the mixed inflection of German masculine and neuter nouns: Sound shapes, dialectal variation, typology Reorganising Grammatical Variation: Diachronic studies in the retention, redistribution and refunctionalisation of linguistic variants, Dammel, Antje, Matthias Eitelmann and Mirjam Schmuck (eds.), pp. 93–118 | Chapter
This paper provides an investigation of the dialectal spread of the “mixed” inflection (i.e. the combination of a “strong” singular with a “weak” plural) to non-feminine German nouns from the 14th to the 19th century, thereby revealing three different lines of development: Mixed inflection is well… read more
2014 Tuning morphosemantic transparency
by shortening: A cross-linguistic perspective Morphology and Meaning: Selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2012, Rainer, Franz, Francesco Gardani, Hans Christian Luschützky and Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.), pp. 275–288 | Article
The central claim of this paper is that, besides phonological optimization, a major function of shortening words by different techniques such as clipping or acronymy is a controlled reduction of morphosemantic transparency in lexical domains, where partly or entirely opaque words are preferred to… read more
2010 Word creation: Definition – Function – Typology Variation and Change in Morphology: Selected papers from the 13th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2008, Rainer, Franz, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Dieter Kastovsky and Hans Christian Luschützky (eds.), pp. 201–216 | Article
In this paper, the term “word creation” refers to all operations for the production of new lexemes which are not covered by regular word formation. It includes the coining of sound symbolic words as well as shortening, alienation, extragrammatical derivation, and blending. These so-called creative… read more
2008 Gender Shifts in the History of English. By Anne Curzan Diachronica 25:1, pp. 111–121 | Article
2003
Borrowing as a tool for grammatical optimization in the history of German brand names
Historical Linguistics 2001: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 13–17 August 2001, Blake, Barry J. and Kate Burridge (eds.), pp. 363–376 | Article
1998 Phonological simplification vs. stylistic differentiation in the history of German word stress Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 2: Germanic linguistics, Hogg, Richard M. and Linda van Bergen (eds.), pp. 285–300 | Article
1995 on different ways of optimizing the sound shape of words Historical Linguistics 1993: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Los Angeles, 16–20 August 1993, Andersen, Henning (ed.), pp. 421–432 | Article
1993 ‘Typological conservatism’ and framing constructions in German morphosyntax Historical Linguistics 1991: Papers from the 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, August 12–16, 1991, Marle, Jaap van (ed.), pp. 295–314 | Article
1987 A performance model for a natural theory of linguistic change Papers from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Onofrio Carruba and Giuliano Bernini (eds.), pp. 517–534 | Article