Richard Zimmermann
List of John Benjamins publications in which Richard Zimmermann is involved.
Article
2024 How fear developed from an object to a subject experiencer verb: Remarks on argument structure change Journal of Historical Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This paper offers quantitative observations on the argument structural change from object to subject experiencers for the verb fear (from causative ‘frighten’ to stative ‘feel fear’) during late medieval and Early Modern English. The empirical statements are based on a corpus of 7.5m words… read more