Dr. Barthe Bloom

Personal profile

My main topic of research is grammatical change in Germanic languages, which I approach from a usage-based, constructional perspective. I am passionate about combining qualitative linguistic analysis with statistical methods to shed light on linguistic phenomena in context. Of particular interest to me is the question of how grammatical constructions are connected to each other, how this can be operationalized and statistically evaluated, and the kinds of effects these connections have on the larger language system in the short and long term.

Orcid ID: 0000-0003-3378-9856

Publications

Bloom, B. (accepted-c). Cohesion and/or disruption? The discourse functions of Early New High German V3 with so. In Modicom, Pierre-Yves and Sarah Harchaoui. Cracks in the bottleneck V3 and the polyoccupation of the initial slot in V2 languages.
Bloom, B. (accepted-b). Structuring the narrative with preposed adverbial clauses: A study of the German and Dutch Ponthus adaptations. In Bloom, Barthe, Ulrike Demske and Malika Reetz (eds.), Discourse Structure and Narration: A Diachronic View from Germanic. Berlin: Language Science Press
Bloom, B. (accepted-a). Adverbial V3 in Early New High German? Construction(s) with so. Journal of Germanic Linguistics.
Bloom, B. (2024d). Integration, resumption, and juxtaposition: The relation between Early New High German preposed adverbial clauses and their host. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 9(1), 1–42. https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.16353
Bloom, B. (2024c). Het gebruik van so in de zinsaanloop in de Duitse, Nederlandse en Engelse Ponthus. Taal en Tongval, 76(1), 1–36. https://doi.org/10.5117/tet2024.1.001.bloo
Bloom, B., Reetz, M., & Demske, U. (2024b). Romankorpus Frühneuhochdeutsch (Roko.UP): A Collection of Early Modern German Narrative Prose. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 10. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.188
Bloom, B., Reetz, M., & Demske, U. (2024a). Romankorpus Frühneuhochdeutsch (Roko.UP). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.10210705
Bloom, B. (2023). Life at the intersection: The lateral relations of han mannen, mannen, and den mannen. In E. Coussé, S. Höder, B. Lyngfelt, & J. Prentice (Eds.), Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages (pp. 24–54). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.37.02blo
Bloom, B. (2022). The Spread of the VO Pattern in Subject Relative Clauses: The OV/VO Alternation in Old and Middle English. In N. Lavidas & K. Nikiforidou (Eds.), Studying Language Change in the 21st Century (pp. 76–101). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004510579_005
Bloom, B. (2021). Lateral relations & multiple source constructions: the Old English subject relative clause and the Norwegian han mannen-construction [Phdthesis, Digitale Bibliothek Thüringen]. https://doi.org/10.22032/DBT.49161

Presentations

Bloom, B. 2024. Da die zeit erfüllet ward/ (da/so) were preposed adverbial clauses integrated. 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Helsinki.
Bloom, B. 2024. Productivity and the paradigm of preposed adverbial clause connection. Unraveling linguistic productivity, Ghent.
Bloom, B. 2023. Early New High German preposed adverbial clauses: integration and discourse functions. 26th International Conference of Historical Linguistics, Heidelberg.
Bloom, B. 2023. Adverbial V3 in mimesis and diegesis: A study of the Early New High German and Dutch Pontus. Discourse Structure and Narration: A diachronic view from Germanic, Potsdam.
Bloom, B. 2023. Integration, resumption and adjunction: The relation between Early New High German preposed adverbial clauses and their host. 12th International Conference on Construction Grammar, Prague.
Bloom, B. 2023. Cohesion and/or disruption? The discourse functions of Early New High German adverbial + so. Cracks in the bottleneck. Verb-third and the polyoccupation of the initial slot in verb-second languages – insights from Germanic and beyond, Paris.
Bloom, B. 2022. Left peripheral so in Early New High German narratives. 25th International Conference of Historical Linguistics, Oxford.
Bloom, B. 2022. Left peripheral so in the German, Dutch and English Pontus. Small languages, big ideas. Oldenburg.
Bloom, B. 2022. Därmed så er det rätt bra. Doch so můß ich aynes dartzů sagen. The preverbal use of [adverb + so/så] in Modern Swedish and Early New High German. Constructions in the Nordics 3, Kiel.
Bloom, B. 2020. Life at the intersection: Two case studies of lateral feature transfer from multiple source constructions. 11th International Conference on construction Grammar, Antwerp.
Bloom, B. 2020. Han mannen and his neighbours. A contrastive study of han mannen’s constructional neighbourhood in Bokmål, Danish, and Swedish. Constructions in the Nordics 2, Göteborg (online).
Bloom, B. 2019. Multiple inheritance as the origin of the Norwegian psychologically distal demonstrative. 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leipzig.
Bloom, B. 2019. Life at the intersection: The relations between han mannen, mannen and den mannen. Constructions in the Nordics 1, Kiel.
Bloom, B. 2018. The disappearance of OV order in subject relative clauses. Language Change in English and Beyond: Linguistic Theory and Historical Corpora, Athens.
Breunesse, M. & B Bloom. 2018. The role of (inter)subjectification in the development of the Norwegian preproprial article into the psychologically distal demonstrative. 20th International Congress of Linguistics, Capetown.

Education

2021Dr. phil. (PhD)
PhD-thesis: Lateral relations & multiple source constructions: the Old English subject relative clause and the Norwegian han mannen-construction 		FSU Jena
2016M.A.
M.A.-thesis: Accessibility theory and the issue of two definite constructions in Swedish: A competition hypothesis		Leiden University
2013Erasmus programGothenburg University      
2013B.A.
B.A.-thesis: S-verb på Svenska i jämförelse med st-verb på Isländska 		University of Groningen

Employment

10/2024Post-doc (Akademische Rätin auf Zeit) English Department, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
08/2021—09/2024Post-doc (Akademische Mitarbeiterin) in the project „Wortstellung und Diskursstruktur“German Department, University of Potsdam
04/2017—07/2021Research associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin)English Department, FSU Jena

Current Courses

Past Courses

  • Statistics workshop, University of Potsdam
  • Introduction to linguistics II: Meaning and language use, FSU Jena
  • Introduction to linguistics I: English morpho-syntax, FSU Jena
  • English grammar: Verbs and their arguments, FSU Jena

Supervision

Master thesis “Untersuchung des Prestigewerts von Verb-letzt-Deklarativsätzen im Frühneuhochdeutschen”.