Katharina Paul
List of John Benjamins publications in which Katharina Paul is involved.
Articles
2025 Grammaticalization of sentence adverbs and modal particles revisited Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022, Kennard, Holly, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri and Martin Maiden (eds.), pp. 232–248 | Chapter
This paper investigates the development of sentence adverbs (SAdvs) and modal particles (MPs) by especially focusing on the German language. By exploring their common grammaticalization paths, we claim that these are much more restricted than previously assumed. In particular, we argue that two… read more
2025 Chapter 3. Adjectival adverbs or adverbial adjectives? How to explain synchrony with diachrony The Diachrony of Word Class Peripheries, Ackermann, Tanja and Christian Zimmer (eds.), pp. 60–80 | Chapter
As opposed to other Indo-European languages, German displays a large class of adjectives that can be used in adverbial function without further morphological marking. Since it is often assumed that these elements share both adjectival and adverbial properties, they cannot be conclusively… read more
2022 Gehen as a new auxiliary in German Language Change at the Interfaces: Intrasentential and intersentential phenomena, Catasso, Nicholas, Marco Coniglio and Chiara De Bastiani (eds.), pp. 165–188 | Chapter
This paper aims to investigate the so-called gehen+infinitive construction in German, in which an inflected form of the (movement) verb gehen ‘go’ is combined with the infinitive of another main verb and, thus, seems to behave like an auxiliary syntactically. Supported by two questionnaire… read more