Linda van Bergen

List of John Benjamins publications in which Linda van Bergen is involved.

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Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 2: Germanic linguistics. Selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, August 1995

Edited by Richard M. Hogg and Linda van Bergen

The Twelfth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, which is the major forum for the presentation of work in progress in the field of diachronic linguistics, took place at the University of Manchester in August 1995. The quality and breadth of the abstracts submitted for the general… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 162] 1998. x, 365 pp.

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Bergen, Linda van 2013 Let’s talk about uton Meaning in the History of English: Words and texts in context, Jucker, Andreas H., Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler and Nicole Studer-Joho (eds.), pp. 157–184 | Article

This paper discusses the form and behavior of Old English uton in relation to the question of whether it is a verb or not. Its lack of participation in the reduction process affecting finite verbs followed by wē and gē is difficult to account for if uton were still a verb form synchronically. The… read more