Chris Cummins

List of John Benjamins publications for which Chris Cummins plays a role.

Title

English Historical Linguistics: Historical English in contact. Papers from the XXth ICEHL

Edited by Bettelou Los, Chris Cummins, Lisa Gotthard, Alpo Honkapohja and Benjamin Molineaux

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 359] 2022. vi, 185 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics

Articles

Cummins, Chris 2022 Chapter 1. IntroductionEnglish Historical Linguistics: Historical English in contact, Los, Bettelou, Chris Cummins, Lisa Gotthard, Alpo Honkapohja and Benjamin Molineaux (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Chapter
Post, Brechtje, Emmanuel A. Stamatakis, Iwo Bohr, Francis Nolan and Chris Cummins 2015 Categories and gradience in intonation: A functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging studyThe Phonetics–Phonology Interface: Representations and methodologies, Romero, Joaquín and María Riera (eds.), pp. 259–284 | Article
The Autosegmental-Metrical framework (AM) assumes that a distinction needs to be made between linguistic phonological information (categorical) and paralinguistic phonetic information (gradient) in intonation. However, empirical evidence supporting this assumption has proved to be elusive so far.… read more
Cummins, Chris and Napoleon Katsos 2012 Modelling context within a constraint-based account of quantifier usageWhat is a Context?: Linguistic approaches and challenges, Finkbeiner, Rita, Jörg Meibauer and Petra B. Schumacher (eds.), pp. 229–250 | Article
Recent work on numerically-quantified expressions has aimed to identify which components of their meaning are semantic and which are pragmatic. Pragmatically-oriented accounts assign a crucial role to contextual factors, such as the level of information requested in the preceding discourse and the… read more