Martin Elsig

List of John Benjamins publications in which Martin Elsig is involved.

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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 15: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 30, Frankfurt

Edited by Ingo Feldhausen, Martin Elsig, Imme Kuchenbrandt and Mareike Neuhaus

In 2016, the Going Romance conference series celebrated its 30th edition and the Goethe University of Frankfurt (Germany) had the honor of organizing this.The edited volume at hand presents a selection of 17 peer-reviewed articles, based on papers that were presented at this occasion. The volume… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 15] 2019. vii, 358 pp.

Grammatical Variation across Space and Time: The French interrogative system

Martin Elsig

Interrogative clauses in French show abundant variation, especially with regard to the position of the subject vis-à-vis the finite verb, the placement of the wh-word, and the use of question markers such as est-ce que and ti/tu. This book presents a comprehensive study of the evolution and use of… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 3] 2009. xvi, 282 pp.

Elsig, Martin 2015 The (non-)grammaticalization of possession in Guatemalan Spanish Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2013: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Amsterdam 2013, Aboh, Enoch O., Jeannette Schaeffer and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 239–260 | Article

My study focuses on Guatemalan Spanish and discusses a distinctive morphosyntactic property of it: the possibility of combining a prenominal weak possessive with a, usually indefinite, determiner (as in una mi hermana). On the basis of an empirical evaluation of spontaneous speech data, extracted… read more

Elsig, Martin 2012 Subject-verb inversion in 13th century German and French: A comparative view Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies, Braunmüller, Kurt and Christoph Gabriel (eds.), pp. 223–240 | Article

The present study examines whether subject-verb inversion in Old French is similarly conditioned to its counterpart in Middle High German. In the generative literature, inversion in Old French has often been ascribed to a verb second (V2) property, possibly as a result of language contact with… read more

Meisel, Jürgen M., Martin Elsig and Matthias Bonnesen 2011  Delayed grammatical acquisition in first language development: Subject-verb inversion and subject clitics in French interrogatives Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 1:4, pp. 347–390 | Article

Recent research comparing simultaneous and successive acquisition of bilingualism suggests that successive acquisition is affected by age-related changes possibly as early as age (of onset of acquisition) 3–4. Since children are typically exposed to colloquial varieties, the primary linguistic… read more

Elsig, Martin 2008 Variability within the French interrogative system: A diachronic perspective Language Contact and Contact Languages, Siemund, Peter and Noemi Kintana (eds.), pp. 135–162 | Article