Hanna Fischer

List of John Benjamins publications in which Hanna Fischer is involved.

Book series

Studies in Germanic Linguistics

Edited by Michael T. Putnam, Laura Catharine Smith, David Natvig and Hanna Fischer

ISSN 2452-2120

Articles

Fischer, Hanna 2020 Chapter 4. The development of the perfect in selected Middle and New Germanic languages Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond, Crellin, Robert and Thomas Jügel (eds.), pp. 95–122 | Chapter

This article gives an overview of the most important similarities and differences in perfect constructions in modern Germanic languages. The focus is on the German present perfect form and its developments, which will be compared with the perfect constructions of English and Dutch (West… read more

Fischer, Hanna 2019 How to get lost: The Präteritumschwund in German dialects Morphological Variation: Theoretical and empirical perspectives, Dammel, Antje and Oliver Schallert (eds.), pp. 197–222 | Chapter

The loss of the preterite forms in German dialects has a specific areal distribution that mirrors the historical process in space. The article discusses the areal distribution of the loss on the basis of dialectological data and outlines the underlying process, the semantic and functional expansion… read more