Maria Goldbach

List of John Benjamins publications in which Maria Goldbach is involved.

Title

Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction

Edited by Gisella Ferraresi and Maria Goldbach

This is a collection of state-of-the-art papers in the field of syntactic reconstruction. It treats a range of topics which are representative of current debates in historical syntax. The novelty and merit of the present book is, the editors believe, that, in contrast to most previous work on… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 302] 2008. xvii, 219 pp.

Articles

Ferraresi, Gisella and Maria Goldbach 2008 Syntactic reconstruction: Methods and new insights Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction, Ferraresi, Gisella and Maria Goldbach (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Article

Goldbach, Maria 2008 Morphological developments affecting syntactic change The Paradox of Grammatical Change: Perspectives from Romance, Detges, Ulrich and Richard Waltereit (eds.), pp. 85–106 | Article

This article is concerned with the role of the morphological paradigm in syntactic change. The discussion focuses on syntactic change in infinitival complements and the distribution of these complements in the context of infinitive embedding verb phrases. I argue that the syntactic structure of the… read more