Matti Rissanen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Matti Rissanen plays a role.
2018 Ere and before in English historical corpora, with special reference to the Corpus of English Dialogues Dialogues in Diachrony: Celebrating Historical Corpora of Speech-related Texts, Kytö, Merja and Terry Walker (eds.), pp. 286–301 | Article
In this paper, the use of two roughly synonymous temporal adverbial links, ere and before, will be discussed. The survey will cover the history of English, from Old to Present-day English. It is based on historical corpora, particularly on the Corpus of English Dialogues (1560–1760). Ere (Old… read more
2012 Grammaticalisation, contact and corpora: On the development of adverbial connectives in English English Historical Linguistics 2010: Selected Papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), Pécs, 23-27 August 2010, Hegedűs, Irén and Alexandra Fodor (eds.), pp. 131–152 | Article
The purpose of this paper is to outline the diachronic development of English adverbial connectives, mainly subordinators and prepositions, from Old to Present-day English. In Old English, the use of the subordination markers þe and þæt forming part of the adverbial subordinator and the gradual… read more
2007 The sullen and the talkative: Discourse strategies in the Salem examinations Journal of Historical Pragmatics 8:1, pp. 1–24 | Article
The purpose of this paper is to describe the discourse strategies of the defendants of the Salem witchcraft trials in 1692. Evidence is derived from the original documents now being re-edited by an international team. A framework for the discussion is provided by politeness theory, although it… read more
2007 From oþ to till: Early loss of an adverbial subordinator Connectives in the History of English, Lenker, Ursula and Anneli Meurman-Solin (eds.), pp. 61–75 | Article
2004 Grammaticalisation from side to side: On the development of beside(s) Corpus Approaches to Grammaticalization in English, Lindquist, Hans and Christian Mair (eds.), pp. 151–170 | Article
The purpose of my paper is to describe the development and grammaticalization of the preposition and conjunct beside(s) in English. This linking word probably goes back to the uncommon Old English construction be + sidan. In Middle English, the grammaticalization of the preposition and conjunct… read more
2000 Investigating Nonstandard Language in a Corpus of Early Modern English Dialogues: Methodological Considerations and Problems Writing in Nonstandard English, Taavitsainen, Irma, Gunnel Melchers and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 171–188 | Article
1989 The Conjunction for in Early Modern English NOWELE Volume 14 (October 1989), pp. 3–18 | Article
1986 Variation and the study of Engllish historical syntax Diversity and Diachrony, Sankoff, David, pp. 97–109 | Article
1985 Expression of exclusiveness in old English and the development of the adverb only Papers from the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, April 10–13, 1985, Eaton, Roger, Olga Fischer, Willem F. Koopman and Frederike van der Leek (eds.), pp. 253–268 | Article