Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee
Edited by K. Aaron Smith and Dawn Nordquist
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 192] 2018. xxvi, 250 pp.
K. Aaron Smith
List of John Benjamins publications for which K. Aaron Smith plays a role.
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Subjects Functional linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2018 A usage-based account for the historical reflexes of ain’t in AAE Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee, Smith, K. Aaron and Dawn Nordquist (eds.), pp. 155–173 | Chapter
This paper is a comparative and historical study of the grammatical status of auxiliary ain‘t in African-American English (AAE). Drawing on the representation of AAE speakers in works of fiction from the 19th century and present-day, the paper confirms that the broad range of uses of auxiliary… read more
2018 Introduction Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee, Smith, K. Aaron and Dawn Nordquist (eds.), pp. xvi–xxvi | Chapter
2012 A critical and historical investigation into semantic prosody Journal of Historical Pragmatics 13:2, pp. 291–312 | Article
While existing literature on cause frequently cites the negative meaning associated with that lexeme, i.e. the fact that cause tends to appear with a negative outcome, e.g. cause an accident, really no scholar has studied in any detail the historical development of the phenomenon. In order to… read more
2007 Language use and auxiliary selection in the perfect Split Auxiliary Systems: A cross-linguistic perspective, Aranovich, Raúl (ed.), pp. 255–270 | Article
2001 The role of frequency in the specialization of the English anterior Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure, Bybee, Joan L. and Paul J. Hopper (eds.), pp. 361 ff. | Article