Amir Zeldes
List of John Benjamins publications in which Amir Zeldes is involved.
2018 Chapter 11. Compounds and productivity in advanced L2 German writing: A constructional approach Usage-inspired L2 Instruction: Researched pedagogy, Tyler, Andrea E., Lourdes Ortega, Mariko Uno and Hae In Park (eds.), pp. 237–265 | Chapter
The frequent formation of complex, hierarchically structured compounds is a striking property of German grammar to non-natives, to the point that German has been referred to as ‘compounding happy’ (Schlücker, 2012). This chapter asks how compounding works in second language (L2) German grammar, by… read more
2017 Between VP and NN: On the constructional types of German - er compounds Constructions and Frames 9:1, pp. 1–40 | Article
This paper is concerned with the classification and analysis of different types of German synthetic compounds headed by deverbal agent nouns in -er, such as Romanleser ‘novel-reader’ or Gedankenleser ‘mind-reader’, where the non-head is seen to saturate an argument of the head lexeme while… read more
2011 Variationism and underuse statistics in the analysis of the development of relative clauses in German Corpus-based Analysis and Diachronic Linguistics, Kawaguchi, Yuji, Makoto Minegishi and Wolfgang Viereck (eds.), pp. 37–57 | Article