Dorothee Beermann

List of John Benjamins publications in which Dorothee Beermann is involved.

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Rightward Movement

Edited by Dorothee Beermann, David LeBlanc and Henk van Riemsdijk

Symmetries and asymmetries have always played an important role in linguistic theorizing. From the early works on potentially universal properties of transformational processes, differences between rightward and leftward movement processes were noted and constituted a challenge to theories of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 17] 1997. vi, 410 pp.

Hellan, Lars and Dorothee Beermann 2020 Presentational and related constructions in Norwegian with reference to German Thetics and Categoricals, Abraham, Werner, Elisabeth Leiss and Yasuhiro Fujinawa (eds.), pp. 69–104 | Chapter

This paper investigates constructions in Norwegian and German with an expletive pronoun in subject position, and for Norwegian also in object position. The discussion covers presentational, impersonal and extrapositional constructions in both languages, and in Norwegian also the ‘light… read more

Beermann, Dorothee 2017 Infinitives: A comparative German-Norwegian study Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency, Hellan, Lars, Andrej L. Malchukov and Michela Cennamo (eds.), pp. 83–108 | Chapter

In this article we discuss bare infinitive constructions in German and Norwegian, presenting research conducted as part of a comparative valence project. The project approaches valency from a construction oriented perspective, and combines the creation of Open Access monolingual… read more

Beermann, Dorothee, Kalyanamalini Sahoo and Lars Hellan 2007 What is ‘Argument Sharing’? A Case Study on Argument Sharing under VP-Serialization in Oriya Linguistic Theory and South Asian Languages: Essays in honour of K. A. Jayaseelan, Bayer, Josef, Tanmoy Bhattacharya and M.T. Hany Babu (eds.), pp. 15–28 | Article

The paper discusses some possible interpretations of the notion ‘argument sharing’ in the analysis of Oriya serial verb constructions (SVCs). The paper in particular addresses the notion of ‘token-sharing’. We argue that the concept of token-sharing, although, due to its rigour, theoretically the… read more

Riemsdijk, Henk van, Dorothee Beermann and David LeBlanc 1997 Preface Rightward Movement, Beermann, Dorothee, David LeBlanc and Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Preface