Tanja Ackermann
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tanja Ackermann is involved.
Titles
Germanic Genitives
Edited by Tanja Ackermann, Horst J. Simon and Christian Zimmer
The papers in this volume focus on the dynamics of one specific cell in morphological paradigms – the genitive. The high amount of diachronic and synchronic variation in all Germanic languages makes the genitive a particularly interesting phenomenon since it allows us, for example, to examine… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 193] 2018. vi, 327 pp.
2025 Chapter 8. A diachronic perspective on peripheral verbs in German The Diachrony of Word Class Peripheries, Ackermann, Tanja and Christian Zimmer (eds.), pp. 184–205 | Chapter
This chapter is concerned with specific types of morphologically complex verbs in German, e.g., verbs with multiple (separable or inseparable) verbal prefixes (like auf-er-stehen ‘to resurge’). Many of these cannot be used in the second position in main clauses in contemporary German, which sets… read more
2025 Chapter 1. A diachronic perspective on word classes and their peripheries The Diachrony of Word Class Peripheries, Ackermann, Tanja and Christian Zimmer (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Chapter
2021 Pre- and postnominal onymic genitives in (Early) New High German: A multifactorial analysis Journal of Historical Linguistics 11:3, pp. 499–533 | Article
This empirical study focuses on the diachrony of adnominal genitives of proper names in (Early) New High German (17th to 19th centuries), e.g., Carls Haus vs. das Haus Carls ‘Carl’s house’. Starting from the observation that word order variation exists within the whole period investigated, the… read more
2019 Possessive -s in German: Development, variation and theoretical status Morphological Variation: Theoretical and empirical perspectives, Dammel, Antje and Oliver Schallert (eds.), pp. 27–62 | Chapter
In several Germanic languages, such as English and Swedish, the former genitive morpheme -s has developed into a possessive marker, which has been described as a special clitic by some scholars. Synchronic and diachronic corpus data as well as a comparison with English and Dutch show that German… read more
2018 From genitive inflection to possessive marker? The development of German possessive ‑s with personal names Germanic Genitives, Ackermann, Tanja, Horst J. Simon and Christian Zimmer (eds.), pp. 189–230 | Chapter
This paper deals with the status of the s-marker with personal names in German from a diachronic perspective. On the basis of corpus data it is argued that the deflexion of personal names in genitive phrases is much more advanced than it has been claimed in the literature: only the invariant marker… read more
2018 Genitives in Germanic Germanic Genitives, Ackermann, Tanja, Horst J. Simon and Christian Zimmer (eds.), pp. 3–12 | Chapter