Anke Lensch
List of John Benjamins publications in which Anke Lensch is involved.
Articles
2023 English and German derivation revisited: A Diachronic Construction Morphology approach to the growing complexity of bases Issues in Diachronic Construction Morphology, Norde, Muriel and Graeme Trousdale (eds.), pp. 234–256 | Article
Today, a number of etymologically related native and non-native English and German suffixes derive nouns and adjectives from entire phrases, suggesting that these suffixes have evolved clitic-like properties. By providing a diachronic analysis of dictionary entries that is underpinned by corpus… read more
2022 Diggers-out, leaf clearer-uppers and stayer-onner-for-nowers: On creativity and extravagance in English -er nominalisations Extravagant Morphology: Studies in rule-bending, pattern-extending and theory-challenging morphology, Eitelmann, Matthias and Dagmar Haumann (eds.), pp. 73–100 | Chapter
To this day, the English -er suffix prototypically derives agent nouns from verbs (ride
V → rider – ‘someone who Vs’). Over the course of a millennium, the -er suffix construction has consistently extended its range of application, and from the 20th century onwards, it has further gained in… read more