Publications

To Appear

• Booth, Hannah & Miriam Butt. LFG and historical linguistics. In Dalrymple, Mary (ed.), Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar. Berlin: Language Science Press.

• Booth, Hannah & Alexandra Rehn. Possessor linking in Middle Low German and Alemannic. To appear in Augustin Speyer & Jenny Diener, Syntax aus Saarbrücker Sicht 5, [Beiheft der Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik]. Stuttgart: Steiner-Verlag.

• Booth, Hannah, Anne Breitbarth & Melissa Farasyn. Linke Satzperipherie, Mittelfeld und Nullsubjekte im Mittelniederdeutschen. Zur Untersuchung syntaktischer Phänomene mit dem CHLG. To appear in Marco Coniglio, Anabel Recker & Heike Sahm (eds.), Mittelniederdeutsch an der Schnittstelle zwischen Literaturwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft und Digital Humanities. Götiingen: Universitätsverlag.

2022

• Booth, Hannah. Desiderata for the annotation of information structure in complex sentences. Proceedings of the 16th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW XVI), 31-43. Marseille, France: European Language Resources Association.

2021

• Booth, Hannah. Revisiting the configurationality issue in Old Icelandic. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6(1): 130, 1-59. 

• Booth, Hannah. Dalrymple, Mary, John J. Lowe & Louise Mycock: The Oxford reference guide to Lexical Functional Grammar. Folia Linguistica 55(2), 597-601.

• Booth, Hannah & Christin Beck. Verb-second and verb-first in the history of Icelandic. Journal of Historical Syntax 5(28), 1-53.

2020

• Walkden, George, & Hannah Booth. Reassessing the historical evidence for embedded V2. In Rebecca Woods & Sam Wolfe (eds.), Rethinking Verb Second. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Download.

• Booth, Hannah. Expletives in Icelandic: a corpus study. In Bridget Drinka (Ed.), Historical Linguistics 2017: Selected Papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, 364–384. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Download.

2019

• Booth, Hannah & Christin Schätzle. The syntactic encoding of information structure in the history of Icelandic. In Miriam Butt, Tracy Holloway King & Ida Toivonen (Eds.), Proceedings of the LFG’19 Conference, Australian National University, 69–89. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications

• Booth, Hannah. Cataphora, expletives and impersonal constructions in the history of Icelandic. Nordic Journal of Linguistics. Special Issue: New Perspectives on Diachronic Syntax in North Germanic 42(2), 139–164.

• Schätzle, Christin and Hannah Booth. 2019. DiaHClust: an Iterative Hierarchical Clustering Approach for Identifying Stages in Language Change. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, pages 126-135, Florence, Italy: Association for Computational Linguistics.

2018

• Booth, Hannah. 2018. Expletives and Clause Structure: Syntactic Change in Icelandic. Doctoral dissertation, University of Manchester.

2017

• Booth, Hannah, Schätzle, Christin, Börjars, Kersti, & Butt, Miriam. 2017. Dative Subjects and the Rise of Positional Licensing in Icelandic. In Butt, Miriam, & King, Tracy Holloway (Eds.): Proceedings of the LFG’17 Conference, University of Konstanz (pp. 104–124). Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

2014

• Booth, Hannah. 2014. The fate of the instrumental case in the history of German. Optional BA dissertation, University of Cambridge.

2013

• Booth, Hannah. 2013. Low German in Scandinavia: A study of language contact in Hanseatic Bergen. Year Abroad BA dissertation, University of Cambridge.