Tobias Scheer

List of John Benjamins publications in which Tobias Scheer is involved.

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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2009: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Nice 2009

Edited by Janine Berns, Haike Jacobs and Tobias Scheer

The annual Going Romance conference has developed into the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are tested. The twenty-third Going Romance conference was a… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 3] 2011. viii, 393 pp.

Articles

Scheer, Tobias 2014 The initial CV: Herald of a non-diacritic interface theory The Form of Structure, the Structure of Form: Essays in honor of Jean Lowenstamm, Bendjaballah, Sabrina, Noam Faust, Mohamed Lahrouchi and Nicola Lampitelli (eds.), pp. 315–330 | Article

Across all structuralist and generative incarnations, interface theories are based on unwarranted diacritics: #, ω etc. Lowenstamm’s initial CV has paved the way for a non-diacritic interface theory: the carrier of morpho-syntactic information in phonology is syllabic space. The article shows that… read more

Scheer, Tobias 2014 Muta cum liquida in the light of Tertenia Sardinian metathesis and compensatory lengthening Latin tr > Old French Vrr Variation within and across Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 41st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ottawa, 5–7 May 2011, Côté, Marie-Hélène and Eric Mathieu (eds.), pp. 77–100 | Article

This article is designed to show that muta cum liquida (branching onsets) enclose an empty nucleus (in case they are bipositional). Arguments come from two data sets. A compensatory lengthening is studied that has occurred in the evolution from Latin to Old French within a muta cum liquida: tr dr >… read more

Scheer, Tobias and Philippe Ségéral 2005 What Lenition and Fortition Tell us about Gallo-Romance Muta cum Liquida Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2003: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 2003, Nijmegen, 20–22 November, Geerts, Twan, Ivo van Ginneken and Haike Jacobs (eds.), pp. 235–267 | Article