Elnora ten Wolde
List of John Benjamins publications in which Elnora ten Wolde is involved.
2027 Clause linking and information structure: A FDG analysis of English purpose and result adverbial clauses The Interpersonal Level in Functional Discourse Grammar, Serafim, Monielly, Matthias Mittendorfer and Kees Hengeveld (eds.), pp. 285–315 | Chapter
This paper examines English purpose and result clauses introduced by so(that) within FDG, arguing that these categories are more heterogeneous than traditionally assumed. Looking at corpus data, I propose that purpose clauses are embedded Communicated Contents within the Comment layer,… read more
2025 Discourse markers in the making: Just so you know and it just so happens Today’s Innovations, Tomorrow’s Conventions: Usage-based approaches to incipient developments in English, Lorenz, David and David Tizón-Couto (eds.), pp. 74–104 | Article
This paper identifies just so you know and it just so happens as emerging discourse markers in American English, based on data from the Corpus of Historical American English and the Corpus of Contemporary American English. Both discourse markers started to appear around the middle of the 20th… read more
2022 From an icy hell of a night to a hell of a fine story: The development of the English binominal noun phrase and beyond English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective: Current issues, Sommerer, Lotte and Evelien Keizer (eds.), pp. 279–310 | Chapter
English evaluative binominal noun phrases (EBNPs; an icy hell of a night) have been discussed for over 50 years, and a number of different analyses have been presented. This paper argues that one problem shared by previous research is that the of-binominals classified as EBNPs are actually three… read more
2018 Premodification in evaluative of-binominal noun phrases: An FDG vs a zone-based account Recent Developments in Functional Discourse Grammar, Keizer, Evelien and Hella Olbertz (eds.), pp. 169–206 | Chapter
Premodification patterns play a central role in the analysis of the evaluative binominal noun phrase (EBNP; a beast of a man). This is, on the one hand, because the EBNP sometimes demonstrates non-canonical premodification: modifiers in front of the first noun can be selected by the second noun (e. read more