German Grammar

2004

2011

This paper pro­vides an overview of the most im­por­tant gram­mat­i­cal prop­er­ties of Ger­man. A large part of the paper is con­cerend with the basic clause types of Ger­man. I start with the Topo­log­i­cal Fields Model, which is very use­ful as a de­scrip­tive tool, but – as will be shown – not suf­fi­cient for a thor­ough ac­count of Ger­man clausal struc­ture. I there­fore ex­plain ad­di­tion­al the­o­ret­i­cal as­sump­tions that were made in order to as­sign struc­ture to the ob­serv­able lin­ear se­quences. After a sketch of an anal­y­sis of the basic sen­tence pat­terns in the Sec­tions 2–5, I give an ac­count of pas­sive, case as­sign­ment, and sub­ject-​verb agree­ment in Sec­tion 6.

Functions of Language 19.1. 119-125., 2012

2001

GAGL The working paper series Groninger Arbeiten zur germanistischen Linguistik, founded by Werner Abraham, will continue after Prof. Abraham's retirement in 2000. Subscribers may expect to receive volume 44 as soon as the new publisher, the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen, has decided on a way to collect the subcription fees. For further information, go to http://www. let. rug. nl/~ zwart/gagl/

Journal of French Language Studies, 2003

Slavery's Rome, 2024

Scholars have produced a great many studies of slavery in the Roman world. What we lack are studies of the history of Rome in the context of enslavement, of the Roman history that enslavement made – of slavery’s Rome. I took the invitation to deliver the inaugural “X-lecture on economic power and dominance in the ancient world” at the University of Buffalo in 2023 as an opportunity to sketch out the contours of such an approach, which calls for new ways of looking at Roman history as a whole.