Martina Werner
List of John Benjamins publications in which Martina Werner is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 4. Relational adjectives as a phantom in the history of German? A contrastive corpus study of Old and early New High German The Diachrony of Word Class Peripheries, Ackermann, Tanja and Christian Zimmer (eds.), pp. 81–100 | Chapter
Relational adjectives (such as kindliches Spielen ‘children’s playing’) are a frequent phenomenon of present-day German. In contrast to the historical development of qualitative adjectives denoting properties (as in mutige Katze ‘brave cat’, lustige Geschichte ‘funny story’), the focus of… read more
2019 Chapter 6. The development of gender and countability effects in German ung - and English ing -nominals Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July 2015, Cennamo, Michela and Claudia Fabrizio (eds.), pp. 115–132 | Chapter
Although German ung- and English ing-nouns developed from a common Germanic origin, the two nominalization types exhibit surprisingly different aspectual and countability properties in present-day German and present-day English. Diachronically, one of the most prominent differences between the… read more