Lukas Pietsch

List of John Benjamins publications in which Lukas Pietsch is involved.

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Connectivity in Grammar and Discourse

Edited by Jochen Rehbein, Christiane Hohenstein and Lukas Pietsch

In this collection of carefully selected papers connectivity is looked at from the vantage points of language contact, language change, language acquisition, multilingual communication and related domains based on various European and Non-European languages. From typological and multilingual… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 5] 2007. viii, 465 pp.

Pietsch, Lukas 2009 Hiberno-English medial-object perfects reconsidered: A case of contact-induced grammaticalisation Studies in Language 33:3, pp. 528–568 | Article

Perfects of the type I have my dinner eaten are a well-known feature of Irish English dialects. They can be linked to a functionally similar construction in Irish, of the type tá mo dhinneár ite agam (literally “is my dinner eaten at-me”), but also to earlier constructions in Standard English. The… read more

Pietsch, Lukas 2008 Prepositional aspect constructions in Hiberno-English Language Contact and Contact Languages, Siemund, Peter and Noemi Kintana (eds.), pp. 213–236 | Article

Pietsch, Lukas 2007 Nominative subjects of non-finite clauses in Hiberno-English Connectivity in Grammar and Discourse, Rehbein, Jochen, Christiane Hohenstein and Lukas Pietsch (eds.), pp. 165–184 | Article

Hiberno-English (Irish English) dialects have developed an innovative grammatical pattern where the pronominal subject of an embedded gerund clause is marked with nominative instead of accusative or genitive case. This paper traces the use of this structure in older forms of Hiberno-English and… read more

Rehbein, Jochen, Christiane Hohenstein and Lukas Pietsch 2007 Connectivity as an object of linguistics Connectivity in Grammar and Discourse, Rehbein, Jochen, Christiane Hohenstein and Lukas Pietsch (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article