Christopher Laenzlinger

List of John Benjamins publications in which Christopher Laenzlinger is involved.

Title

Comparative Studies in Word Order Variation: Adverbs, pronouns, and clause structure in Romance and Germanic

Christopher Laenzlinger

The present book is a typological study in crucial portions of the grammars of French/Romance and German/Germanic. It starts by asking: What do adverbs, pronouns and full noun phrases have in common? This question is tackled, on the one hand, from an empirical perspective by the description of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 20] 1998. x, 371 pp.

Articles

Soare, Gabriela and Christopher Laenzlinger 2025 Chapter 27. Some notes on the modal existential wh construction in two Romance languages The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky, Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci and Andrew Nevins (eds.), pp. 552–574 | Chapter

This paper investigates the Modal Existential Wh-Construction (MEC) in Romanian and French, a structure that superficially resembles a wh-clause but semantically functions as a narrow-scope existential generalized quantifier. We examine the classes of predicates selecting MECs and the types of… read more

Laenzlinger, Christopher 2015 Comparative adverb syntax: A cartographic approach Adverbs: Functional and diachronic aspects, Pittner, Karin, Daniela Elsner and Fabian Barteld (eds.), pp. 207–238 | Article

In this paper I investigate the neutral structure of the Mittelfeld in Germanic (mainly German) and Romance (mainly French) languages following the cartographic approach (Cinque 1999, 2005, 2010; Kayne 1994, 2005; Cinque & Rizzi 2008; Laenzlinger 2011). Given the full VP-evacuation condition… read more

Laenzlinger, Christopher 2004 A feature-based theory of adverb syntax Adverbials: The interplay between meaning, context, and syntactic structure, Austin, Jennifer R., Stefan Engelberg and Gisa Rauh (eds.), pp. 205–252 | Article