Dorothy Disterheft
List of John Benjamins publications in which Dorothy Disterheft is involved.
1993 Parameter resetting Historical Linguistics 1991: Papers from the 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, August 12–16, 1991, Marle, Jaap van (ed.), pp. 87–98 | Article
1991 Review of Appel & Muysken (1987): Language contact and bilingualism Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 6:2, pp. 307–310 | Review
1990 The Role of Adaptive Rules in Language Change Diachronica 7:2, pp. 181–198 | Article
SUMMARY The role of Adaptive Rules as the mechanism of change which preserves communicability between generations is explored. These are ad hoc rules proposed by Andersen (1973) which operate on the output of incorrectly abduced rules to disguise innovations which do not match what community norms… read more
1987 The diachronic relationship of morphology and syntax Papers from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Onofrio Carruba and Giuliano Bernini (eds.), pp. 211–220 | Article
1986 The Structure and Diachrony of Consecutives Diachronica 3:1, pp. 1–14 | Article
SUMMARY Three claims about the structure and diachrony of consecutives and serials in African languages are examined: Serials evolve from consecutives; serials develop further into minor categories such as prepositions, auxiliaries, complementizers, etc.; the synchronic deep structure (and… read more
1982 Subject raising in Old Irish Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Galway, April 6–10 1981, Ahlqvist, Anders (ed.), pp. 44–53 | Article