Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen is involved.
2021 From case to topology: Changes in the Late Middle Danish case system and the reasons for them Historical Germanic morphosyntax, Laker, Stephen and John Ole Askedal (eds.), pp. 278–307 | Article
The Scanian dialect of Middle Danish underwent a range of changes and reductions in its case system. I argue that these changes were caused neither by phonological developments nor by language contact as often assumed, but by multiple processes of grammaticalisation. The present paper focuses on… read more
2018 Nursery words and hypocorisms among Germanic kinship terms Advances in Gothic Philology and Linguistics, Holsting, Alexandra and Hans Frede Nielsen † (eds.), pp. 176–183 | Article
By using Jakobson’s (1960: 127–130) criteria for determining the nursery-word status of a given lexeme, I argue in this article that, even if we should no longer regard PG *aiþīn-/-ōn- ‘mother’ (Goth. aiþei), *aiþma- ‘daughter’s husband’ and *faþōn- ‘father’s sister’ as nursery words or… read more
2015 Review of Kotin (2012): Gotisch. Im (diakronischen und typologischen) Vergleich NOWELE 68:1, pp. 121–128 | Review
2014 The outcome of PIE *-ē̆i̯(C)# and *-ē̆u̯(C)# in Germanic NOWELE 67:2, pp. 149–172 | Article
By suggesting an interconnected series of soundlaws for the outcome of Proto-Indo-european (PIE) falling e-vowel diphthongs in final syllables in Proto-Germanic (PG) and in the individual Germanic languages, viz. PIE *-ei̯(C)# > PG *-ai(C)#, PIE *-ēi̯(C)# > PG *-ei(C)#, PIE *-eu̯(C)# > PG… read more