Désirée Kleineberg
List of John Benjamins publications in which Désirée Kleineberg is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 2. Diachronic evidence for Spanish object mass nouns as a peripheral category The Diachrony of Word Class Peripheries, Ackermann, Tanja and Christian Zimmer (eds.), pp. 17–59 | Chapter
In languages with obligatory plural marking object mass nouns (OMN) such as furniture, i.e. mass nouns referring to discrete entities, seem to be peripheral within the peripheral class of mass nouns. We analyse the paths leading to OMNs, their degree of stability as well as their diachronic… read more
2023 Chapter 2. Collection nouns as a derivational category in Spanish: Analysing the productivity of collective suffixes on the basis of ad hoc constructs Constructions in Spanish, Hennecke, Inga and Evelyn Wiesinger (eds.), pp. 28–56 | Chapter
The paper examines the productivity of a constructional schema of collectivity in Spanish. We analyse nonce-formations derived from typical collective suffixes and classify their meanings. The analysis reveals that the derivation of collection nouns in Spanish is productive, mostly represented… read more