Jenny Diener

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jenny Diener is involved.

Article

Speyer, Augustin and Jenny Diener 2026 Adverbial adjectives vs. adjective-adverbs: What’s better for German? Adverbs and Particles at the Form-Meaning Interface, Coniglio, Marco, Kalle Müller and Markus Steinbach (eds.), pp. 116–141 | Chapter

In German linguistics, words like langsam in der Hund läuft langsam (‘the dog walks slowly’) are traditionally classified as ‘adverbially used adjectives’. We argue instead that they should be classified as adverbs, regularly converted from adjectives. We show that classical arguments for… read more