Nancy Stern

List of John Benjamins publications for which Nancy Stern plays a role.

Titles

Columbia School Linguistics in the 21st Century

Edited by Nancy Stern, Ricardo Otheguy, Wallis Reid and Jaseleen Sackler

Subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Advances in Functional Linguistics: Columbia School beyond its origins

Edited by Joseph Davis, Radmila J. Gorup and Nancy Stern

Subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Signal, Meaning, and Message: Perspectives on sign-based linguistics

Edited by Wallis Reid, Ricardo Otheguy and Nancy Stern

Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Semiotics | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Stern, Nancy 2019 Introduction: Columbia School Linguistics in the functional-cognitive space of the 21st centuryColumbia School Linguistics in the 21st Century, Stern, Nancy, Ricardo Otheguy, Wallis Reid and Jaseleen Sackler (eds.), pp. 1–32 | Chapter
The English System of Degree of Control (Diver, 1984) is a Columbia School hypothesis that posits invariant meanings for word order signals in what are traditionally called transitive and ditransitive sentences. In this paper, the Control System is shown to account for speakers’ choices between two… read more
Stern, Nancy 2006 Tell me about yourself: A unified account of English-self pronounsAdvances in Functional Linguistics: Columbia School beyond its origins, Davis, Joseph, Radmila J. Gorup and Nancy Stern (eds.), pp. 177–194 | Article
This paper offers an innovative Columbia School account of English -self pronouns (myself, yourself, etc.). The analysis rejects the view that the distribution of -self pronouns is a reflex of syntactic structure, as well as the traditional characterization of -self as a reflexive pronoun. Instead,… read more
Stern, Nancy 2004 A sign-based analysis of English pronouns in conjoined expressionsCognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis, Contini-Morava, Ellen, Robert S. Kirsner and Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller (eds.), pp. 219–234 | Article
Otheguy, Ricardo and Nancy Stern 2000 The Acategorial Lexicon and the Pairing Strategies: A Critical Account of Inherent Gender in SpanishBetween Grammar and Lexicon, Contini-Morava, Ellen and Yishai Tobin (eds.), pp. 123 ff. | Article