Thomas M. Rainsford
List of John Benjamins publications in which Thomas M. Rainsford is involved.
Article
2019 Chapter 14. De-prefixed spatial Ps in medieval French Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 15: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 30, Frankfurt, Feldhausen, Ingo, Martin Elsig, Imme Kuchenbrandt and Mareike Neuhaus (eds.), pp. 277–294 | Chapter
We examine a series of medieval French spatial Ps with de- prefixes (de-forms; e.g. dessus, dedans), showing that they display a combination of preposition-, adverb- and noun-like syntactic properties which distinguish them from their corresponding base forms (e.g. sus, ens). We argue that these… read more