Rahel Oppliger
List of John Benjamins publications for which Rahel Oppliger plays a role.
Articles
(The) fact is … / (Die) Tatsache ist … focaliser constructions in English and German are similar but subject to different constraints International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:1, pp. 1–30 | Article
2022
N-is/ist constructions are elements in the left periphery of English/German sentences that have developed pragmatic meaning: they can be used as discourse markers with various functions, depending on the nominal element that is used in the construction. We use evidence from parallel and… read more
Post-head compression in noun phrase referring expressions: Structural change in interactive communication English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective: Current issues, Sommerer, Lotte and Evelien Keizer (eds.), pp. 107–134 | Chapter
2022 In communication, language users frequently produce referring expressions with noun phrases at their centre (NP REs). Over the course of a communicative interaction, interlocutors’ use of NP REs tends to change: previous research has attested to speakers’ tendency to converge on linguistic… read more