David A. Zubin

List of John Benjamins publications in which David A. Zubin is involved.

Articles

Köpcke, Klaus-Michael and David A. Zubin 2003 Metonymic pathways to neuter-gender human nominals in German Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing, Panther, Klaus-Uwe and Linda L. Thornburg (eds.), pp. 149–166 | Article

Zubin, David A. and Klaus-Michael Köpcke 1986 Gender and Folk Taxonomy: The Indexical Relation Between Grammatical and Lexical Categorization Noun Classes and Categorization: Proceedings of a symposium on categorization and noun classification, Eugene, Oregon, October 1983, Craig, Colette G. (ed.), pp. 139–180 | Article

Zubin, David A. and Klaus-Michael Köpcke 1985 Cognitive Constraints on the Order of Subject and Object in German Studies in Language 9:1, pp. 77–107 | Article

The ordering of subject and object, especially in the so-called clause "middle-field," is a perennial problem both for the grammar of German, and for syntactic theories of linearization. While formalist accounts (e.g. Engel, 1977) and semantic accounts (e.g. Lerenz, 1977a) have made valuable… read more