Jean Mulder
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jean Mulder plays a role.
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2019. Sort of in Australian English: The elasticity of a pragmatic marker. Vagueness and Elasticity of 'Sort of' in TV Discussion Discourse in the Asian Pacific, Parvaresh, Vahid and Grace Zhang (eds.), pp. 9–32
This study examines the pragmatic functions of sort of in Australian English (AuE), utilising discourse from 12 months of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s television program Q&A. It explores the frequency of sort of uses in context with a focus on multifunctionality. Uses are classified in… read more | Article
2009. Final but in Australian English conversation. Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond, Peters, Pam, Peter Collins and Adam Smith (eds.), pp. 337–358
In contemporary Australian English but has progressed through a grammaticization continuum to become a “fully developed” final discourse particle. Here we document the place of Final Particle but in Australian English. Firstly, we make a case that it provides further evidence of the mixed origins… read more | Article
2008. The grammaticization of but as a final particle in English conversation. Crosslinguistic Studies of Clause Combining: The multifunctionality of conjunctions, Laury, Ritva (ed.), pp. 179–204
We examine the behavior of turn-final but in a corpus of spoken American and Australian English, proposing two hypotheses. First, the behavior of but can be modeled as a continuum from a prosodic-unit-initial to a prosodicunit-final discourse particle. Second, as but “moves” along this continuum,… read more | Article
1989. Syntactic Ergativity in Coast Tsimshian (SM'Algyax). Studies in Language 13:2, pp. 405–435
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1981. On the Subject of Advancements in the Philippine Languages. Studies in Language 5:2, pp. 227–268
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