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Frančiška Trobevšek Drobnak

Frančiška Trobevšek Drobnak has 4 papers in our library, in 1990–2004, most of them on Historical linguistics & language change, English, Syntax & grammar formalisms.

4 papers in our library · 1990–2004

OpenAlex · h-index 3 · 13 works · 21 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 4 works in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11591

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 Affiliations

🎓University of LjubljanaLjubljana · Slovenia1990–2024 · 8 paperscurrent

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 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 2The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 4 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 4 works

🧭 Topics 3Research subjects and languages the work is about.English · 4 worksHistorical linguistics & language change · 4 worksSyntax & grammar formalisms · 1 work

 Works by year

2000s

20041 paper

1990s

19991 paper19921 paper19901 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Expanded tenses in the old English orosius a syntactic strengthening* (1990 · 4 citations)
    The study asks whether the Old English periphrasis beon/wesan + present participle in -ende (the "expanded tenses", e.g.
  2. Linguistic variation and change: Middle English infinitive (2004 · 1 citation)
    The paper asks why, after the Norman Conquest, the English to infinitive spread at the cost of the bare infinitive until the bare form survived only after modals and a few verbs such as let, make, see and hear.
  3. Linguistic change: the grammatical environment of participial non-finite clauses in Old English and in present-day English (1999 · 1 citation)
    The paper asks whether a new, more compact construction spreads through a language according to how grammatically complex its surroundings are.
  4. The syntax of the Old English preverbal ge- in the light of the theory of language changes as strengthenings or weakenings (1992)
    The paper asks why the Old English verbal prefix ge- appears so inconsistently, even in parallel Gospel manuscripts translating the same Latin.

Venues

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