Michelle Troberg
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michelle Troberg is involved.
2026 Spatial expressions with implicit (and overt) arguments: A comparative study of French and Spanish Null or Nothing: Zero elements in Romance syntax and morphology, Herbeck, Peter and Natascha Pomino (eds.), pp. 334–367 | Chapter
Implicit arguments in the prepositional domain are a lesser-studied context of NULL or NOTHING, yet much like in the inflectional and verbal domains, micro-variation within Romance reveals different types of implicit arguments and illuminates properties of the structures within which they are… read more
2014 Le prédicat résultatif adjectival en français médiéval Lingvisticæ Investigationes 37:1, pp. 156–180 | Article
The goal of this article is to show that adjectival resultative secondary predication was a syntactic possibility in Medieval French. From a diachronic point of view, the presence of this construction is surprising given that it is attested neither in Latin nor in Modern French. From a typological… read more
2011 From indirect to direct object: Systematic change in 15th century French Diachronica 28:3, pp. 382–422 | Article
This article provides an account of the shift in the expression of the internal argument of a small class of dynamic two-place verbs best represented by aider “help” from ‘dative’, i.e., as an indirect object with the preposition à, to ‘accusative’, i.e., as a direct object with no preposition.… read more
2011 Directed motion in Medieval French Romance Linguistics 2010: Selected papers from the 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Seattle, Washington, March 2010, Herschensohn, Julia (ed.), pp. 117–136 | Article
This paper introduces new data showing that Medieval French patterns like a satellite-framed language in that directed motion events can be expressed via a manner verb and a PP complement denoting a telic goal. This contrasts sharply with contemporary French, a typical verb-framed language, in… read more