Andreas Dufter
List of John Benjamins publications in which Andreas Dufter is involved.
Journal
Titles
Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish: Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives
Edited by Andreas Dufter and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta
Since the advent of syntactic cartography, left sentence peripheries have begun to take center stage in linguistic research. Following the lead of Rizzi (1997), much work on left peripheries has been focused on Italian, whereas other Romance languages have attracted somewhat less attention. This… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 214] 2014. viii, 423 pp.
Focus and Background in Romance Languages
Edited by Andreas Dufter and Daniel Jacob
Focus–background structure has taken center stage in much current theorizing about sentence prosody, syntax, and semantics. However, both the inventory of focus expressions found cross-linguistically and the interpretive consequences associated with each of these continue to be insufficiently… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 112] 2009. vii, 362 pp.
2014 Introduction Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish: Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives, Dufter, Andreas and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter
2014 Preface Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish: Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives, Dufter, Andreas and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (eds.), pp. vii–viii | Preface
2009 Clefting and discourse organization: Comparing Germanic and Romance Focus and Background in Romance Languages, Dufter, Andreas and Daniel Jacob (eds.), pp. 83–121 | Article
2009 Preface Focus and Background in Romance Languages, Dufter, Andreas and Daniel Jacob (eds.), p. | Preface
2009 Introduction Focus and Background in Romance Languages, Dufter, Andreas and Daniel Jacob (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
2009 Natural Versification in French and German counting-out rhymes Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms: From language to metrics and beyond, Aroui, Jean-Louis and Andy Arleo (eds.), pp. 101–122 | Article
Nursery rhymes have frequently been regarded as a testing ground for hypotheses concerning metrical and prosodic unmarkedness. The recurrence of tetrametric patterns and the unmarkedness of binary feet, for example, have been interpreted as a universal of child(-directed) verse, and of folk verse… read more
2008 On explaining the rise of c'est-clefts in French The Paradox of Grammatical Change: Perspectives from Romance, Detges, Ulrich and Richard Waltereit (eds.), pp. 31–56 | Article
In Contemporary French, c’est-clefts are claimed to occur with significantly higher frequency than their counterparts in other Romance languages and in older stages of French. Starting out from the assumption that c’est-clefts exist in order to mark focus on the clefted constituent, historical… read more
2008 Double indirect object marking in Spanish and Italian Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization, Seoane, Elena and María José López-Couso (eds.), pp. 111–129 | Article






