Mirjam Schmuck

List of John Benjamins publications in which Mirjam Schmuck is involved.

Title

Reorganising Grammatical Variation: Diachronic studies in the retention, redistribution and refunctionalisation of linguistic variants

Edited by Antje Dammel, Matthias Eitelmann and Mirjam Schmuck

With most studies on grammatical variation concentrating on the synchronic level, a systematic investigation of long-term grammatical variation within the context of language change, i.e. from a predominantly diachronic perspective, has largely remained a desideratum. The present volume fills this… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 203] 2018. v, 302 pp.

Articles

Schmuck, Mirjam 2020 The rise of the onymic article in Early New High German: Areal factors and the triggering effect of bynames Walking on the Grammaticalization Path of the Definite Article: Functional Main and Side Roads, Szczepaniak, Renata and Johanna Flick (eds.), pp. 199–226 | Chapter

The rise of the definite article in Old High German (750–1050) is well documented, but little is so far known about the emergence of the onymic article, i.e. the definite article in combination with proper names, which represents a later stage in grammaticalization. This paper focuses on early… read more

Schmuck, Mirjam, Matthias Eitelmann and Antje Dammel 2018 Introduction: On the role of reorganisation in long-term variation and change and its theoretical implications Reorganising Grammatical Variation: Diachronic studies in the retention, redistribution and refunctionalisation of linguistic variants, Dammel, Antje, Matthias Eitelmann and Mirjam Schmuck (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Chapter