Elmar Schafroth
List of John Benjamins publications in which Elmar Schafroth is involved.
Articles
2026 Forms and functions of pseudo-tautologies: An overview, typology and corpus-based analysis in four languages using construction grammar approaches Comparing Constructions in Romance and Germanic Languages, Mellado Blanco, Carmen and Pedro Ivorra Ordines (eds.), pp. 241–278 | Article
This article examines pseudo-tautological constructions of the type [X COPULA X] (e.g., War is war, A deal is a deal, Kids are Kids, Boys will be boys) from a constructional and cross-linguistic perspective. Drawing on semantic, logical, and rhetorical definitions of tautology, it argues that… read more
2003 French. Gender in French: Structural properties, incongruences and asymmetries Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men, Hellinger, Marlis and Hadumod Bußmann (eds.), pp. 87–117 | Article
1.Introduction
2.Categories of gender in French
2.1Grammatical gender
2.1.1Grammatical gender classes and agreement
2.1.2Gender assignment
2.2Lexical gender
2.3Referential gender
2.4Social gender
2.5Generic masculines
3.Gender-specification in French
3.1Word-formation
3.1.1Derivation
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