Barbara Meisterernst
List of John Benjamins publications in which Barbara Meisterernst is involved.
2024 Chapter 11. The diachronic development of postverbal dé 得 in Chinese Historical Linguistics 2019: Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019, Evans, Bethwyn, Maria Kristina Gallego and Luisa Miceli (eds.), pp. 260–282 | Chapter
The modal dé
得 is one of the modal verbs of possibility in Late Archaic Chinese (LAC) and Early Middle Chinese (EMC). Different from other modals verbs of possibility, which are confined to preverbal position, dé
得 ‘obtain, get, manage to, can’ occurs in two different… read more
2023 The negative cycle in Chinese: From synthetic to analytic and back to synthetic negation? Journal of Historical Linguistics 13:1, pp. 35–81 | Article
The present discussion proposes that renewal processes in the domain of negation manifest themselves predominantly in the change from bi-morphemic, synthetic negation to analytic negation neg+aux by introducing a new auxiliary verb as verbal head. Some of these new verbs may subsequently be… read more
2020 Possibility and necessity and the scope of negation in Early Middle Chinese International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 7:1, pp. 1–44 | Article
This paper provides a classification of modal verbs of possibility and necessity in Late Archaic and Early Middle Chinese based on an analysis of their scopal features with respect to negation. It shows that circumstantial readings and deontic readings are interpreted in two different syntactic… read more
2018 Chapter 8. Resultative and termination: A unified analysis of Middle Chinese VP-YI Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics: Studies in honor of John B. Whitman, Nishiyama, Kunio, Hideki Kishimoto and Edith Aldridge (eds.), pp. 157–180 | Chapter
This paper proposes an account of the reanalysis of the Chinese morpheme 已yǐ from an intransitive verb meaning ‘end, terminate’ into a functional category marking completive aspect. We posit that this grammaticalization was triggered by the loss of aspectual affixes, prompting YI to be… read more