Dieter Stein

List of John Benjamins publications for which Dieter Stein plays a role.

Genres in the Internet: Issues in the theory of genre

Edited by Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 188] 2009. ix, 294 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics

Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English

Edited by Olga Fischer, Anette Rosenbach and Dieter Stein

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 53] 2000. x, 391 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
Subjects Historical linguistics
Subjects English literature & literary studies | Historical linguistics | History of linguistics
This paper discusses the pragmatic processes of semiosis involved in real speaker-hearer interaction in the process of an initial innovative form-function construal. This atomistic view of the locus of linguistic change suggests that more prominence needs to be given to motivations which are… read more
Giltrow, Janet and Dieter Stein 2009 Genres in the Internet: Innovation, evolution, and genre theoryGenres in the Internet: Issues in the theory of genre, Giltrow, Janet and Dieter Stein (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Article
Stein, Dieter 2003 11. Pronominal usage in Shakespeare: Between sociolinguistics and conversation analysisDiachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems, Taavitsainen, Irma and Andreas H. Jucker (eds.), pp. 251–307 | Article
Bergs, Alexander and Dieter Stein 2001 The role of markedness in the actuation and actualization of linguistic changeActualization: Linguistic Change in Progress, Andersen, Henning (ed.), pp. 79–94 | Article
Sornicola, Rosanna and Dieter Stein 1998 Honoring Thomas Frank: Introduction and Overview of the ContributionsThe Virtues of Language: History in language, linguistics and texts, Stein, Dieter and Rosanna Sornicola (eds.), pp. 15–20 | Article
Stein, Dieter 1998 Relative Sentences in late Middle English: The Paston and the Cely LettersThe Virtues of Language: History in language, linguistics and texts, Stein, Dieter and Rosanna Sornicola (eds.), pp. 67–80 | Article
SUMMARY The paper discusses three instances of linguistic change from the history of English which seem to involve semantic similarity between linguistic categories in the pattern of internal evolution. One case concerns the generalization of a personal ending within the same person category across… read more
Stein, Dieter 1985 Discourse markers in early modern EnglishPapers 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. 283–302 | Article
Stein, Dieter 1980 Korrespondenz in kontrastiver LexikBabel 26:4, pp. 205–210 | Article