Jessica Nowak
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jessica Nowak is involved.
Articles
2024 The rise and fall of sentence-internal capitalization in English: A corpus-based approach Unlocking the History of English: Pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types, Caon, Luisella, Moragh S. Gordon and Thijs Porck (eds.), pp. 33–59 | Chapter
This paper addresses an empirically under-researched aspect of English historical orthography: the rise and fall of sentence-internal capitalization of common nouns. Our corpus study supports previous findings with respect to the developmental course of common noun capitalization, i.e., a steady… read more
2020 Ablaut pattern extension as partial regularization strategy in German and Luxembourgish Historical Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July – 4 August 2017, Drinka, Bridget (ed.), pp. 183–204 | Chapter
The present contribution considers the nature of ablaut pattern extension and the determinants contributing to it. Following Morphological Economy Theory (e.g., Werner, 1987), it argues that analogical pattern extensions are highly functional, i.e., they constitute frequency-driven partial… read more
2018 Ablaut reorganisation: The case of German x-o-o Reorganising Grammatical Variation: Diachronic studies in the retention, redistribution and refunctionalisation of linguistic variants, Dammel, Antje, Matthias Eitelmann and Mirjam Schmuck (eds.), pp. 149–174 | Chapter
The present paper argues for the existence of an 8th Ablaut Class in German which, comparable to the analogical emergence of Class VII in West-Germanic, evolved analogically in the course of ablaut reorganisation processes in Early New High German. Class VIII is characterised by the pattern x-o-o… read more