Susann Fischer
List of John Benjamins publications in which Susann Fischer is involved.
Book series
ISSN 0166-0829
Title
Word-Order Change as a Source of Grammaticalisation
Susann Fischer
This book presents a new perspective on the interaction between word-order and grammaticalisation by investigating the changes that stylistic fronting and oblique subjects have undergone in Romance (Catalan, French, Spanish) as compared to Germanic (English, Icelandic). It discusses a great deal of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 157] 2010. ix, 200 pp.
2022 Degrammaticalisation indices in Iberian complex predicates? From Verbal Periphrases to Complex Predicates, Garachana Camarero, Mar, Sandra Montserrat Buendia and Claus Dieter Pusch (eds.), pp. 189–209 | Chapter
This chapter presents evidence for a loss in auxiliary status of Iberian complex predicate verbs, focusing on Catalan and European Portuguese. This change in structural status can be assessed by criteria such as: the decreasing occurrence of clitic climbing; the increasing use of subcategorised… read more
2014 Chapter 2. Revisiting stylistic fronting in Old Spanish Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish: Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives, Dufter, Andreas and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (eds.), pp. 53–76 | Chapter
The aim of this paper is twofold: First, data will be presented showing that Stylistic Fronting, i.e. the movement of a past participle, an adjective or an infinitive in front of the finite verb, was productive in Old Spanish. Second, I will argue that Stylistic Fronting in Old Spanish had a… read more
2014 Towards a typological classification of Judeo-Spanish: Analyzing syntax and prosody of Bulgarian judezmo Stability and Divergence in Language Contact: Factors and Mechanisms, Braunmüller, Kurt, Steffen Höder and Karoline Kühl (eds.), pp. 77–108 | Article
Judeoespanyol (Judeo-Spanish) is one of the names given to those varieties of
Spanish spoken by descendants of the Jews that were expelled from Spain in
1492. There is neither a common designation nor is it spoken in one specific
area, nor is there any agreement on how to classify it. By some… read more
2012 Original or falsification? Syntax as a witness for the defence Estudis lingüístics i culturals sobre Curial e Güelfa: Novel·la cavalleresca anònima del segle XV en llengua catalana, Ferrando, Antoni (ed.), pp. 515–536 | Article
This article will argue that it is possible to pigeonhole Curial e Güelfa’s date of origin within the 15th century, and its place of origin within a Catalan speaking country, by comparing its word-order and other aspects of syntax to different medieval Romance texts. The surface structural… read more
2008 Grammaticalisation within the IP-domain The Paradox of Grammatical Change: Perspectives from Romance, Detges, Ulrich and Richard Waltereit (eds.), pp. 107–126 | Article
This paper will argue that grammaticalisation within the IP domain is responsible for the change in word order from Old to Modern Romance. Stylistic fronting, postverbal clitics, and other verb-third orders do not seem to be related at first sight. However, on closer investigation it seems as if… read more
2004 9. The diachronic relationship between quirky subjects and stylistic fronting Non-nominative Subjects: Volume 1, Bhaskararao, Peri and Karumuri V. Subbarao (eds.), pp. 193–212 | Chapter
2003 Rethinking the Tobler-Mussafia Law: Data from Old Catalan Diachronica 20:2, pp. 259–288 | Article
It has been argued repeatedly that the Old Romance clitics are phrasal in character and obey a Romance version of the Wackernagel law, i.e. the Tobler-Mussafia law (cf. Tobler 1875; Mussafia 1888). This law has been interpreted as a constraint that forbids clitics to appear in initial position, due… read more