Reduced Parenthetical Clauses as Mitigators: A corpus study of spoken French, Italian and Spanish
Stefan Schneider
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 27] 2007. xiv, 237 pp.
Stefan Schneider
List of John Benjamins publications for which Stefan Schneider plays a role.
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Subjects Corpus linguistics | Phonology | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax
Articles
2024 Chapter 8. French j’imagine , Spanish me imagino: Similarities and differences in their recent pragmatic development Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages, Pons Bordería, Salvador and Shima Salameh Jiménez (eds.), pp. 240–260 | Chapter
French imaginer and Spanish imaginar start to appear during the second half of the 13th century. Initially, these verbs remain closely linked to the corresponding nouns image and imagen, their prevailing meaning being ‘form a picture’. After the 14th century, a second meaning, ‘suppose’,… read more
2024 Construct types in language change Journal of Historical Linguistics 14:2, pp. 304–334 | Article
This article combines ideas and concepts deriving from grammaticalization studies, cognitive linguistics and construction grammar. Specifically, it takes three important ideas developed within grammaticalization research, namely untypical context, bridging or critical context and isolating or… read more
2007 Reduced parenthetical clauses in Romance languages: A pragmatic typology Parentheticals, Dehé, Nicole and Yordanka Kavalova (eds.), pp. 237–258 | Article
The article derives from a corpus study of reduced parenthetical clauses (RPCs) in contemporary spoken French, Italian, and Spanish (cf. Schneider 2007) and proposes a typology based on pragmatic criteria. The parentheticals are first subdivided into three major groups: phatic, reporting, and… read more