Steve Nicolle

Nicolle, Steve 2023 A linguistic cycle for speech orienters: Constructional changes in the development and loss of quotative markers in Bantu languages Issues in Diachronic Construction Morphology, Norde, Muriel and Graeme Trousdale (eds.), pp. 257–281 | Article

This paper describes the way in which represented speech is introduced in ten eastern Bantu languages, and explains the different constructions used as stages of a linguistic cycle. In this cycle, verbs of speech develop into quotative markers, and eventually cease to be used to introduce direct… read more

Nicolle, Steve 2018 Daniel Van Olmen, Hubert Cuyckens & Lobke Ghesquière (eds.) Aspects of grammaticalization: (Inter)Subjectification and directionality Functions of Language 25:3, pp. 429–438 | Review

Nicolle, Steve 2016 Review of Traugott & Trousdale (2013): Constructionalization and constructional changes & Petré (2014): Constructions and environments: Copular, passive, and related constructions in Old and Middle English Studies in Language 40:2, pp. 457–467 | Review

Nicolle, Steve 2012 Review of Coventry, Tenbrink & Bateman (2009): Spatial Language and Dialogue Functions of Language 19:1, pp. 89–95 | Review

Nicolle, Steve 2012 Review of Breul & Göbbel (2010): Comparative and Contrastive Studies of Information Structure Studies in Language 36:4, pp. 928–937 | Review

Nicolle, Steve 2009 Go-and-V, come-and-V, go-V and come-V: A corpus-based account of deictic movement verb constructions English Text Construction 2:2, pp. 185–208 | Article

The present paper aims to complement recent work on deictic movement verb constructions by using a corpus-based approach to identify differences between the four deictic movement verb constructions: go-and-V, come-and-V, go-V and come-V, and to evaluate the proposal made in Nicolle (2007) that… read more

Nicolle, Steve 2003 Mental models theory and relevance theory in quantificational reasoning Pragmatics & Cognition 11:2, pp. 345–378 | Article

Human reasoning involving quantified statements is one area in which findings from cognitive psychology and linguistic pragmatics complement each other. I will show how mental models theory provides a promising account of the mechanisms underlying peoples’ performance in three types of reasoning… read more

Nicolle, Steve 2003 Distal aspects in Bantu languages Meaning Through Language Contrast: Volume 2, Jaszczolt, Katarzyna M. and Ken Turner (eds.), pp. 3–22 | Article

Nicolle, Steve 2002 Review of Blank & Koch (1999): Historical Semantics and Cognition Journal of Historical Pragmatics 3:2, pp. 349–354 | Review

Nicolle, Steve 2000 Communicated and non-communicated acts in relevance theory Pragmatics 10:2, pp. 233–245 | Article

According to relevance theory (Sperber and Wilson 1986; Blakemore 1991) some cases of communication depend on the hearer recognising that a particular speech act, for example admitting, betting or promising, is being performed. These are ‘communicated’ acts. Other cases of communication do not… read more

Nicolle, Steve 2000 Markers of general interpretive use in Amharic and Swahili Pragmatic Markers and Propositional Attitude, Andersen, Gisle and Thorstein Fretheim (eds.), pp. 173 ff. | Article

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