Gillian Ramchand
List of John Benjamins publications in which Gillian Ramchand is involved.
Articles
2012 Contact, animacy, and affectedness in Germanic Comparative Germanic Syntax: The state of the art, Ackema, Peter, Rhona Alcorn, Caroline Heycock, Dany Jaspers, Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (eds.), pp. 223–248 | Article
This paper takes as its starting point the striking and systematic variation in the expression of direct objects in English, Swedish and German with respect to verbs of surface contact like ‘kick’. While in English, kick can easily appear with an inanimate object as in kick the door, in Swedish and… read more
2008 Mapping a parochial lexicon onto a universal semantics The Limits of Syntactic Variation, Biberauer, Theresa (ed.), pp. 219–245 | Article
In this paper, we argue that languages differ in what parts of meaning arespecified in the syntax and what parts are negotiated by the Conceptual-Intentional systems (C-I). This leads to a kind of parametric variation, whichwe illustrate with examples from Norwegian definiteness, Russian… read more