Christian Zimmer

List of John Benjamins publications in which Christian Zimmer is involved.

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The Diachrony of Word Class Peripheries

Edited by Tanja Ackermann and Christian Zimmer

Word classes of a language are usually not homogeneous groups of lexemes that share the same morphological and syntactic properties completely. Rather, lexemes are usually grouped together that have some basic commonalities but may differ in detail, e.g., regarding their inflectional behaviour. In… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 238] 2025. v, 252 pp. | open access

Germanic Genitives

Edited by Tanja Ackermann, Horst J. Simon and Christian Zimmer

The papers in this volume focus on the dynamics of one specific cell in morphological paradigms – the genitive. The high amount of diachronic and synchronic variation in all Germanic languages makes the genitive a particularly interesting phenomenon since it allows us, for example, to examine… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 193] 2018. vi, 327 pp.

Ackermann, Tanja, Christian Forche and Christian Zimmer 2025 Chapter 8. A diachronic perspective on peripheral verbs in German The Diachrony of Word Class Peripheries, Ackermann, Tanja and Christian Zimmer (eds.), pp. 184–205 | Chapter

This chapter is concerned with specific types of morphologically complex verbs in German, e.g., verbs with multiple (separable or inseparable) verbal prefixes (like auf-er-stehen ‘to resurge’). Many of these cannot be used in the second position in main clauses in contemporary German, which sets… read more

Zimmer, Christian and Tanja Ackermann 2025 Chapter 1. A diachronic perspective on word classes and their peripheries The Diachrony of Word Class Peripheries, Ackermann, Tanja and Christian Zimmer (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Chapter

Zimmer, Christian 2018 On the motivation of genitive‑s omission in Contemporary German Germanic Genitives, Ackermann, Tanja, Horst J. Simon and Christian Zimmer (eds.), pp. 65–89 | Chapter

In Contemporary German strong, masculine and neuter nouns in genitive phrases either take a suffix (‑s or -es) or remain uninflected for case (e.g. Nutzung d-es Internet‑s vs. Nutzung d-es Internet-Ø, ‘use of the-gen.sg internet-gen.sg/Ø’). This paper is concerned with a corpus-based description of… read more

Zimmer, Christian, Horst J. Simon and Tanja Ackermann 2018 Genitives in Germanic Germanic Genitives, Ackermann, Tanja, Horst J. Simon and Christian Zimmer (eds.), pp. 3–12 | Chapter