Ursula Lenker

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ursula Lenker is involved.

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English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008.. Volume I: The history of English verbal and nominal constructions

Edited by Ursula Lenker, Judith Huber and Robert Mailhammer

The fourteen studies selected for this volume – all of them peer-reviewed versions of papers presented at the 15th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics 2008 (23–30 August) at the University of Munich – investigate syntactic variation and change in the history of English from… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 314] 2010. vii, 281 pp.

Connectives in the History of English

Edited by Ursula Lenker and Anneli Meurman-Solin

Clausal connection is one of the key building blocks of language and thus a field where a wide range of syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and cognitive phenomena meet. The availability of large databases as well as considerable advances in corpus-linguistic methods have strengthened the interest in… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 283] 2007. viii, 318 pp.

Articles (7) | Order by:

Lenker, Ursula 2020 Chapter 5. Framing material in early literacy: Presenting literacy and its agents in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena: Historical approaches to paratext and metadiscourse in English, Peikola, Matti and Birte Bös (eds.), pp. 115–134 | Chapter

The remarkably extensive and diverse Anglo-Saxon text corpus clearly testifies to the literary precocity and self-awareness of both writers and book producers in Anglo-Saxon England, the first period of literacy in English. This becomes particularly evident in prologues and scribal colophons,… read more

Lenker, Ursula 2014 Knitting and splitting information: Medial placement of linking adverbials in the history of English Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English, Pfenninger, Simone E., Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier (eds.), pp. 11–38 | Article

After the fixation of English word order to SVO, adverbials have come to be the only flexible sentence constituent in unmarked sentences. So far, however, there has only been little research into the specific discourse functions of the different positions of adverbials. In an earlier study on the… read more

Lenker, Ursula, Judith Huber and Robert Mailhammer 2010 Introduction: Capturing and explaining syntactic change in the history of English English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008., Lenker, Ursula, Judith Huber and Robert Mailhammer (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter

Lenker, Ursula 2007

Forhwi ‘because’: Shifting deictics in the history of English causal connection

Connectives in the History of English, Lenker, Ursula and Anneli Meurman-Solin (eds.), pp. 193–227 | Article

Lenker, Ursula and Anneli Meurman-Solin 2007 Introduction Connectives in the History of English, Lenker, Ursula and Anneli Meurman-Solin (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Miscellaneous

Lenker, Ursula 2002 Is it, stylewise or otherwise, wise to use -wise? Domain adverbials and the history of English -wise English Historical Syntax and Morphology: Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000, Fanego, Teresa, Javier Pérez-Guerra and María José López-Couso (eds.), pp. 157–180 | Article

Lenker, Ursula 2000 Soþlice and witodlice: Discourse markers in Old English Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English, Fischer, Olga, Anette Rosenbach and Dieter Stein (eds.), pp. 229–249 | Article