Carola Trips
List of John Benjamins publications in which Carola Trips is involved.
Book series
ISSN 0166-0829
Titles
Diachronic Clues to Synchronic Grammar
Edited by Eric Fuß and Carola Trips
This volume emphasizes a new line of thinking in generative grammar which acknowledges that certain synchronic properties of languages can only be fully understood if diachronic data is taken into consideration. The central topics addressed in this collection of papers are (1) a critical assessment… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 72] 2004. viii, 228 pp.
From OV to VO in Early Middle English
Carola Trips
This monograph answers the question of why English changed from an OV to a VO language on the assumption that this change is due to intensive language contact with Scandinavian. It shows for the first time that the English language was much more heavily influenced by Scandinavian than assumed… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 60] 2002. xiv, 359 pp.
2020 Copying of argument structure: A gap in borrowing scales and a new approach to model contact-induced change Historical Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July – 4 August 2017, Drinka, Bridget (ed.), pp. 409–430 | Chapter
This article deals with the copying of argument structure, pursuing two aims: first, I will discuss why the copying of verbs, and more specifically their argument structure, has never been truly dealt with in models of language contact, including borrowing scales and hierarchies. I will show… read more
2019 Chapter 9. What is a diachronically stable system in a language-contact situation? The case of the English recipient passive The Determinants of Diachronic Stability, Breitbarth, Anne, Miriam Bouzouita, Lieven Danckaert and Melissa Farasyn (eds.), pp. 215–244 | Chapter
In this paper we present data showing that the development of the English recipient passive (RP) was linked predominantly to verbs of French origin, although Old French (OF) did not have an RP. We present two explanations of the role that contact with French could have played in this development.… read more
2018 A comparison of multi-genre and single-genre corpora in the context of contact-induced change Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change, Whitt, Richard J. (ed.), pp. 241–260 | Chapter
This chapter discusses results from a quantitative study of possible contact-induced change in Middle English in a multi-genre corpus (the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English 2 (PPCME2), Kroch & Taylor 2000, and a single-genre corpus, the Penn Corpus of Early English Correspondence… read more
2018 Chapter 10. Cleft sentences in the history of French and English: A case of pragmatic borrowing? Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond, García García, Marco and Melanie Uth (eds.), pp. 287–310 | Chapter
This paper addresses the question of whether certain types of cleft constructions found in earlier stages of English can be interpreted as instances of pragmatic borrowing from French. According to Prince (1988) this type of borrowing can be assumed if (i) a syntactic form in the recipient language… read more
2014 The position proper of the adjective in Middle English: A result of language contact Adjectives in Germanic and Romance, Sleeman, Petra, Freek Van de Velde and Harry Perridon (eds.), pp. 73–94 | Article
This paper discusses grammatical replication as a possible explanation for the rise of postposed rhematic adjectives in Middle English (ME) times. It will be shown that this phenomenon, which is described by Fischer (2006) as a violation of the Old English pattern, has the potential to have been… read more
2009 The syntax and semantics of the temporal anaphor “then” in Old and Middle English Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax, Alexiadou, Artemis, Jorge Hankamer, Thomas McFadden, Justin Nuger and Florian Schäfer (eds.), pp. 171–196 | Article
The fact that þa/þonne ‘then’ trigger V2 in OE is commonly accounted for by assuming that these adverbs are operators that trigger V-to-C movement. This paper presents an alternative analysis based on the observation that þa/þonne and pronouns are in complementary distribution in preverbal position. read more
2008 Was Old Frech -able borrowable? A diachronic study of word-formation processes due to language contact English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006, Dury, Richard, Maurizio Gotti and Marina Dossena (eds.), pp. 217–239 | Article
An in-depth corpus study will show that the ability of -able formations to highlight other arguments of the verbal base is present from the start in Old French texts, similarly to findings for Modern French (2003). Old French formations like (par)durable, decevable or changable show that… read more
2006 Syntactic sources of word-formation processes: Evidence from Old English and Old High German Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax: From Afrikaans to Zurich German, Hartmann, Jutta M. and László Molnárfi (eds.), pp. 299–328 | Article
2004 Introduction Diachronic Clues to Synchronic Grammar, Fuß, Eric and Carola Trips (eds.), pp. 1–29 | Miscellaneous