Anna M. Thornton
List of John Benjamins publications in which Anna M. Thornton is involved.
Articles
2021 Chapter 11. Competition in comparatives: A look at Romance scenarios All Things Morphology: Its independence and its interfaces, Moradi, Sedigheh, Marcia Haag, Janie Rees-Miller and Andrija Petrovic (eds.), pp. 199–214 | Chapter
This chapter provides an initial exploration of the phenomenon of competition in comparatives in Romance languages. Latin had both synthetic and periphrastic comparatives, whose distribution was phonologically conditioned. Romance languages have generalized the periphrastic construction to all… read more
2018 Chapter 15. Overabundance in Hungarian accusative pronouns Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia, Grimaldi, Mirko, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi (eds.), pp. 223–239 | Chapter
Overabundance is defined as the situation in which more than one inflected form is available to realize a single cell of an inflectional paradigm (Thornton 2011, 2012). Hungarian pronominal paradigms host several cases of overabundance in the accusative forms. Quantitative data from both diachronic… read more