Christopher D. Sapp
List of John Benjamins publications in which Christopher D. Sapp is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2452-2120
Titles
Dating the Old Norse Poetic Edda: A multifactorial analysis of linguistic features
Christopher D. Sapp
This book offers new dating of the poems of the Old Norse Poetic Edda , perhaps our best sources about the mythology and legends of the Viking Age. This study compares the anonymous Eddic poems to dated skaldic poems with respect to five phenomena that develop diachronically in early… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 5] 2022. xii, 246 pp.
Quantifying Expressions in the History of German: Syntactic reanalysis and morphological change
Dorian Roehrs and Christopher D. Sapp
This study describes the 1200-year history of German quantifying expressions like nîoman anderro > niemand anderer ‘nobody else’, analyzing the morpho-syntactic developments within the generative framework. The quantifiers examined arose from various lexical sources/categories (nouns, adjectives,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 230] 2016. xvii, 299 pp.
The Verbal Complex in Subordinate Clauses from Medieval to Modern German
Christopher D. Sapp
This research monograph is an empirical and theoretical study of clause-final verbal complexes in the history of German. The book presents corpus studies of Middle High German and Early New High German and surveys of contemporary varieties of German. These investigations of the verbal complex… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 173] 2011. ix, 225 pp.
Articles
2016 Word order patterns in the Old High German right periphery and their Indo-European origins Diachronica 33:3, pp. 367–411 | Article
I investigate deviations from the OV order in the OHG texts Isidor and Tatian. Abstracting away from cases of verb-second, post-verbal constituents tend to be heavy or focused. OHG thus has a head-final VP with extraposition of NPs and PPs. Likewise, verbal complexes with the order finite before… read more
2013 Review of Fleischer & Schallert (2011): Historische Syntax des Deutschen: Eine Einführung Diachronica 30:1, pp. 135–140 | Review