The grammaticalisation of definite articles in German, Dutch, and English: a microtypological approach

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction – German and Dutch in contrast: synchronic, diachronic and psycholinguistic perspectives 1
4. Part 1: Synchronic Perspectives
5. Nickname formation in West Germanic: German Jessi and Thomson meet Dutch Jess and Tommie and English J-Bo and Tommo 15
6. Analogues of the way-construction in German and Dutch: another Germanic sandwich? 47
7. Lice in the fur of our language? German irrelevance particles between Dutch and English 77
8. IPP in Afrikaans: a corpus-based investigation and a comparison with Dutch and German 109
9. Part 2: Diachronic Perspectives
10. The grammaticalisation of definite articles in German, Dutch, and English: a microtypological approach 145
11. A diachronic contrastive study of sentence-internal capitalisation in Dutch and German 179
12. Middle High German and modern Flemish s‑retraction in /rs/-clusters 213
13. Part 3: Psycholinguistic Perspectives
14. The role of verb-second word order for L1 German, Dutch and Norwegian L2 English learners: a grammar competition analysis 241
15. Syntactic or semantic gender agreement in Dutch, German and German learner Dutch: a speeded grammaticality judgement task 271
16. Subtle differences, rigorous implications: German and Dutch representation of tense-aspect features in SLA research of Spanish 299
17. Food for psycholinguistic thought on gender in Dutch and German: a literature review on L1 and L2 production and processing 329