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Forschungsgebiete:

• Sprachtheorie
• Kontrastive Linguistik, Sprachvergleich, Sprachtypologie
• Phonetik, Phonologie
• Morphologie
• Semantik
• Syntax
• Ältere Sprachstufen
• Sprachgeschichte, Sprachwandel
• Dialektologie
• Gesprochene Sprache
• Formale Linguistik
• Computerlinguistik

Besondere Forschungsgebiete: Korpuslinguistik

Monographien in Auswahl:

• Breitbarth, Anne. 2005. Live fast, die young: The short life of Early Modern German auxiliary ellipsis. Utrecht: LOT publications.
• Breitbarth, Anne. 2014. The history of Low German Negation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Breitbarth, Anne, Christopher Lucas & David Willis. 2020. The history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean : volume II : patterns and processes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Aufsätze und Beiträge in Auswahl:

• Ghyselen, Anne-Sophie, Anne Breitbarth, Melissa Farasyn, Jacques Van Keymeulen, and Arjan van Hessen. 2020. “Clearing the Transcription Hurdle in Dialect Corpus Building : The Corpus of Southern Dutch Dialects as Case-Study.” Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 3: 1–17.
• Booth, Hannah, Anne Breitbarth, Aaron Ecay, and Melissa Farasyn. 2020. “A Penn-Style Treebank of Middle Low German.” In Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020), 766–775.
• Breitbarth, Anne. 2020. “The Negative Cycle and Beyond.” In The Oxford Handbook of Negation, ed by. Viviane Déprez and M. Teresa Espinal, 530–545. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Breitbarth, Anne, Melissa Farasyn, Anne-Sophie Ghyselen, and Jacques Van Keymeulen. 2020. “Het Gesproken Corpus van de Zuidelijk-Nederlandse Dialecten.” Ed by. Roxane Vandenberghe. Handelingen - Koninklijke Zuidnederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis (KZM) 72: 23–38.
• Walkden, George, and Anne Breitbarth. 2019. “Complexity as L2-Difficulty: Implications for Syntactic Change.” Theoretical Linguistics 45 (3–4): 183–209.
• Breitbarth, Anne. 2019. “Should a Conditional Marker Arise ... The Diachronic Development of Conditional ‘sollte’ in German.” Glossa - A Journal of General Linguistics 4 (1).
• Van Keymeulen, Jacques, Veronique De Tier, Anne Breitbarth, Anne-Sophie Ghyselen, and Melissa Farasyn. 2019. “Het Dialectologische Corpus ‘Stemmen Uit Het Verleden’ van de Universiteit Gent.” Volkskunde 120 (2): 193–204.
• Farasyn, Melissa, George Walkden, Sheila Watts & Anne Breitbarth. 2018. The interplay between genre and syntax in a historical Low German corpus. In: Richard J. Whitt (ed.), Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Breitbarth, Anne & Agnes Jäger. 2018. History of negation in High and Low German. In: Gisella Ferrarresi, Agnes Jäger & Helmut Weiß (eds.), Clause structure and word order in the history of German. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Koleva, Mariya, Melissa Farasyn, Bart Desmet, Anne Breitbarth & Véronique Hoste. 2017. An automatic part-of-speech tagger for Middle Low German. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 22.1:108–141.
• Breitbarth, Anne. 2017. Jespersen’s Cycle = Minimize Structure + Feature Economy. In: Silvio Cruscina, Katharina Hartmann & Eva-Maria Remberger (eds.), Studies on Negation: Syntax, Semantics, and Variation. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress / Vienna University Press
• Breitbarth, Anne, Sara Delva & Torsten Leuschner. 2016. A (Very) Imperfect Sandwich: English should, German sollte and Dutch mocht/moest as Grammaticalizing Markers of Conditionality. Journal of Germanic Linguistics. 28(4)
• Farasyn, Melissa & Anne Breitbarth. 2016. Nullsubjekte im Mittelniederdeutschen. Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur
• Breitbarth, Anne. 2015. The development of conditional /should/ in English. In: Chiara Gianollo, Agnes Jäger & Doris Penka (eds.), Language change at the syntax-semantics interface, 293-322. Berlin: De Gruyter
• Breitbarth, Anne & Liliane Haegeman. 2014. The distribution of preverbal en in (West) Flemish: Syntactic and interpretive properties. Lingua 147:69-86. DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2013.11.001
• Breitbarth, Anne. 2013. Indefinites, negation and Jespersen’s Cycle in the history of Low German. Diachronica 30.2: 171–201. DOI: 10.1075/dia.30.2.02bre
• Breitbarth, Anne. 2013. The development of negation in Low German and Dutch. In David Willis, Christopher Lucas and Anne Breitbarth (eds.), The history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean, 190-238. Oxford: Oxford University Press
• Breitbarth, Anne, Christopher Lucas & David Willis. 2013. Incipient Jespersen's cycle: the (non-)grammaticalization of new negative markers. In Jürg Fleischer & Horst Simon (eds.), Comparing Diachronies = Sprachwandelvergleich, 141-162. Berlin: De Gruyter
• Breitbarth, Anne, Karen De Clercq & Liliane Haegeman. 2013. The syntax of polarity emphasis. Lingua. 128:1-8. DOI 10.1016/j.lingua.2013.02.004
• Breitbarth, Anne. 2011. Modality and negation in the history of Low German. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 30.2:131–167. DOI 10.1515/ZFSW.2011.007
• Breitbarth, Anne. 2009. A hybrid approach to Jespersen’s cycle in West Germanic. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 12/2: 81-114. DOI: 10.1007/s10828-009-9027-7

Dissertation (Titel): Live fast, die young: The short life of Early Modern German auxiliary ellipsis

Dissertation - Jahr der Publikation: 2005

Herausgebertätigkeit in Auswahl:

• Breitbarth, Anne, Miriam Bouzouita, Melissa Farasyn & Lieven Danckaert. 2019. The Determinants of Diachronic Stability. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
• Breitbarth, Anne, Elisabeth Witzenhausen, Miriam Bouzouita & Lieven Danckaert. 2019. Cycles in Language Change. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Breitbarth, Anne & Ben Hermans. 2014. Dialects in contact: changes in transitional zones. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [Taal & Tongval 66]
• Willis, David, Christopher Lucas & Anne Breitbarth. 2013. The development of negation in the languages of Europe. Volume 1: Case Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Breitbarth, Anne, Karen De Clercq & Liliane Haegeman. 2013. Polarity emphasis: distribution and locus of licensing, Special Issue of Lingua 128.
• Breitbarth, Anne, Christopher Lucas, Sheila Watts & David Willis. 2010. Continuity and Change in Grammar. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
• Breitbarth, Anne & Henk van Riemsdijk. 2004. Triggers. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Forschergruppen, Forschungsprojekte :

• Gesproken Corpus van de zuidelijk-Nederlandse Dialecten (GCND) (2020-2024)
• Parsed Corpus of Southern Dutch Dialects (2018-2019)
• Corpus of Historical Low German (2013-2019)
• The development of the conditional use of modal verbs in West-Germanic (2012-2014)
• DiaLing (2013-)
• Layers of Structure (2010-2016)
• The development of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean (2006- 2009)

Verbindung mit wiss. Gesellschaften :

• Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE)
• Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW)
• Verein für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung (VndS)
• Deutscher Germanistenverband (DGV)
• Centrum voor Historische Talen (CHT)
• Koninklijke Zuidnederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis (KZM)

Stipendien: Hercules-Stichting ;; FWO

Letzte Aktualisierung: Tue Sep 22 14:09:03 2020

Zusätzliche Kurzinformationen: Redakteurin des Niederdeutschen Jahrbuchs seit 2017/18