From Letter to Sound: New perspectives on writing systems
Edited by Martin Neef and Beatrice Primus †
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 7:2 (2005) 207 pp.
Beatrice Primus †
List of John Benjamins publications in which Beatrice Primus † is involved.
Title
2017 Rhythmic constraints in handwriting. A review of Pagliarini et al. (2017) Written Language & Literacy 20:2, pp. 252–258 | To be specified
2014 The architecture of punctuation systems: A historical case study of the comma in German The architecture of writing systems, Berg, Kristian, Franziska Buchmann and Nanna Fuhrhop (eds.), pp. 195–224 | Article
Punctuation systems are explained by three architectural designs in the pertinent literature. The first one is rooted in rhetoric and ties punctuation solely to intonation; the second is pluralistic and considers not only intonation but also style, semantics, and grammar, i.e. syntax. The third… read more
2010 Event-structure and individuation in impersonal passives Transitivity: Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing, Brandt, Patrick and Marco García García (eds.), pp. 209–234 | Article
This paper discusses the event-structural effects of suppressing the subject argument in impersonal passives in several languages, including German, Dutch and Turkish. Corpus data partially support earlier assumptions that the situation denoted by impersonal passives is a homogenoeus, e.g. atelic,… read more
2009 Review of Voeste (2008): Orthographie und Innovation. Die Segmentierung des Wortes im 16. Jahrhundert The Role of Phonology in Reading, Penke, Martina (ed.), pp. 237–240 | Review
2007 The typological and historical variation of punctuation systems: Comma constraints Constraints on Spelling Changes, Nottbusch, Guido and Eliane Segers (eds.), pp. 103–128 | Article
In the literature on punctuation we find a broad typological and historical distinction between prosodically and grammatically determined punctuation. The mainstream historical assumption is that the prosodic system changed into to a grammatical system in some languages. We will show that this view… read more
2005 A featural analysis of the Modern Roman Alphabet From Letter to Sound: New perspectives on writing systems, Neef, Martin and Beatrice Primus † (eds.), pp. 235–274 | Article
The present article shows that the letters of the Modern Roman Alphabet have an internal structure that is highly systematic in both inner-graphematic and functional-phonological terms. The framework of analysis is Optimality Theory. This approach is congenial for the data at issue as many… read more
2005 Introduction: From letter to sound: New perspectives on writing systems From Letter to Sound: New perspectives on writing systems, Neef, Martin and Beatrice Primus † (eds.), pp. 133–138 | Article