Borrowing of Argument Structure in Contact Situations (BASICS): the case of medieval English under French influence

• Applicants: Professor Dr. Achim Stein; Professorin Dr. Carola Trips
• Subject Area: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics ; Individual Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
• Term: from 2015 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 265711632

• Final Report Year: 2022

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Publications

• 2018. A Toolkit for Lemmatising, Analysing, and Visualising Middle English Data. In Andrew U. Frank et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Corpus- Based Research in the Humanities CRH-2, vol. 1 Gerastree Proceedings, 153–160. Wien
  Percillier, Michael
  
• 2018. Automatic Morphosyntactic and Dependency Annotation of the Anglo-Norman Text Database. In Marek Konopka, Beata Trawinski, Ullrich Waßner & Eric Fuß (eds.), Grammar and Corpora 2016, 357–376. Heidelberg: University
  Schauwecker, Yela & Achim Stein
  
• 2018. Who Came Riding First? Le Chevalier or the Knight? A Multiple Corpus Analysis Investigating Historical Language Contact. In Andrew U. Frank, Christine Ivanovic, Francesco Mambrini, Marco Passarotti & Caroline Sporleder (eds.), Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Corpus-Based Research in the Humanities CRH-2, vol. 1, 181–190. Vienna: Gerastree proceedings
  Schauwecker, Yela & Carola Trips
  
• A variationist approach to the spread of emergent features in Middle English. Journée d’études: Internal variation. Focus on diamesic variation / Variation, oral, écrit, Strasbourg, December 7th, 2018
  Michael Percillier
  
• Alternations involving datives in the history of French. The shaping of transitivity and argument structure, Pavia, October 25th-27th, 2018
  Achim Stein
  
• FoDS 2018: The development of the French passive: an event-semantic account. Formal Diachronic Semantics, Oslo, 13-14.9.2018
  Achim Stein
  
• The rise of the reflexive use of Middle English psych verbs under contact influence. The shaping of transitivity and argument structure, Pavia, October 25th-27th, 2018
  Carola Trips
  
• Typological boundaries in historical language acquisition: Motion events in Anglo-French (1066-c15). The shaping of transitivity and argument structure, Pavia, October 25th-27th, 2018
  Yela Schauwecker
  
• 2019. What Is a Diachronically Stable System in a Language-Contact Situation? The Case of the English Recipient Passive. In Anne Breitbarth, Miriam Bouzouita, Lieven Danckaert & Melissa Farasyn (eds.), The Determinants of Diachronic Stability, chap. 9, 215–243. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins
  Stein, Achim; Richard Ingham & Carola Trips
  
• Benefits and problems of annotating historical corpora morphologically and syntactically. Invited keynote talk, Historical Corpora and Variation, Cagliari, 4-5 April 2019 Cagliari
  Achim Stein
  
• Contact-Induced Changes in the Argument Structure of Middle English Verbs on the Model of Old French. Journal of Language Contact, 12(1), 232-267.
  Trips, Carola & Stein, Achim
  
• Le faus françeis d’Angleterre en tant que langue seconde ? Quelques phénomènes syntaxiques indicatifs. Revue des langues romanes, 45-68.
  Schauwecker, Yela
  
• Mapping of lemmatisation annotation to multiple Middle English corpora. Workshop 20: (Semi–)automatic retrieval of data from historical corpora. SLE 2019, 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leipzig, 21-24 August 2019
  Michael Percillier
  
• The need to extend linguistic annotation in a historical corpus: the case of the PPCME2 and contact-induced change. Historical Corpora and Variation, Cagliari, 4-5 April 2019
  Carola Trips
  
• 2020. Lemmatising Verbs in Middle English Corpora: The Benefit of Enriching the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English 2 (PPCME2), the Parsed Corpus of Middle English Poetry (PCMEP), and a Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English (PLAEME). In Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 7172–7180. Marseille, France: European Language Resources Association
  Percillier, Michael & Carola Trips
  
• A Variationist Approach to the Spread of Emergent Features in Middle English. Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines, 23-36.
  Percillier, Michael
  
• Allostructions, homostructions or a constructional family?. Constructional Approaches to Language, 213-242.
  Percillier, Michael
  
• Effects of language contact through translation: an explanation for the rise of impersonal and reflexive argument structures in Middle English. MEMC network conference, 6th-8th January 2020, University of Cardiff
  Carola Trips
  
• Introduction to SLE workshop 5: Cognitive mechanisms driving language change. Athens, Greece, 30 August – 3 September 2021 SLE 2021
  Carola Trips; Achim Stein; Yela Schauwecker & Michael Percillier
  
• 2022. Anglo-Französisch (1066-1500) Als Zweitsprache: Eine Quantitative Untersuchung von Sprachkontakteinflüssen Anhand Der Lexikalisierung von Bewegungsereignissen. Habilitationsschrift: Universität Stuttgart
  Schauwecker, Yela
  
• Adapting the Dynamic Model to historical linguistics. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 5-34.
  Percillier, Michael
  
• The development of reflexive strategies in Middle English, verb classes and the contact hypothesis. Oxford, ICHL25, 1st August 2022
  Achim Stein & Carola Trips