Jean Mulder
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jean Mulder plays a role.
Articles
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 | Article
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… read more
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 | Article
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
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 | Article
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
1989 Syntactic Ergativity in Coast Tsimshian (SM'Algyax) Studies in Language 13:2, pp. 405–435 | Article
1981 On the Subject of Advancements in the Philippine Languages Studies in Language 5:2, pp. 227–268 | Article