Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee
Edited by K. Aaron Smith and Dawn Nordquist
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 192] 2018. xxvi, 250 pp.
Dawn Nordquist
List of John Benjamins publications for which Dawn Nordquist plays a role.
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Subjects Functional linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2018 LOOK up about: Usage-based processes in lexicalization Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee, Smith, K. Aaron and Dawn Nordquist (eds.), pp. 225–245 | Chapter
This chapter investigates the emergence of a new English phrasal-prepositional verb, look up about, which is found predominantly in online discourse and is largely synonymous with “to google”. It is argued that the verb emerged as the result of a reanalysis of a source syntagm that eroded an… read more
2018 Introduction Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee, Smith, K. Aaron and Dawn Nordquist (eds.), pp. xvi–xxvi | Chapter
2012 A critical and historical investigation into semantic prosody Journal of Historical Pragmatics 13:2, pp. 291–312 | Article
While existing literature on cause frequently cites the negative meaning associated with that lexeme, i.e. the fact that cause tends to appear with a negative outcome, e.g. cause an accident, really no scholar has studied in any detail the historical development of the phenomenon. In order to… read more