Alexander Bergs

Lehmann, Claudia and Alexander Bergs 2021 As if irony was in stock: The case of constructional ironies Constructions and Frames 13:2, pp. 309–339 | Article

The linguistic treatment of verbal irony has more often than not focused on novel, ad hoc ironies. Research in the last decade, however, suggests that there is a considerable number of utterances that are either schematic or lexically filled and interpreted as ironic by convention. By analyzing… read more

Bergs, Alexander 2016 Response to Traugott Modal Meaning in Construction Grammar, Cappelle, Bert and Ilse Depraetere (eds.), pp. 125–129 | Article

Bergs, Alexander and Lena Heine 2010 Mood in English Mood in the Languages of Europe, Rothstein, Björn and Rolf Thieroff (eds.), pp. 103–116 | Article

Bergs, Alexander 2009 Review of Kytö, Rydén & Smitterberg (2006): Nineteenth-Century English: Stability and Change Journal of Historical Pragmatics 10:1, pp. 170–177 | Review

Bergs, Alexander and Gabriele Diewald 2009 Contexts and constructions Contexts and Constructions, Bergs, Alexander and Gabriele Diewald (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article

Bergs, Alexander 2007 Letters: A new approach to text typology Letter Writing, Nevalainen, Terttu and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen (eds.), pp. 27–46 | Article

This paper explores the question how far “letters” as one specific text type can be subdivided into smaller groups of texts (i.e. subtypes such as “requests”, “orders”, or “reports”) on the basis of socio-psychological and pragmatic dimensions and factors, including speech act and accommodation… read more

Bergs, Alexander 2005 ‘Ther been thinges thre, the whiche thynges troublen al this erthe’: The discourse-pragmatics of ‘demonstrative which’ Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past, Skaffari, Janne, Matti Peikola, Ruth Carroll, Risto Hiltunen and Brita Wårvik (eds.), pp. 259–277 | Article

This paper describes and analyses the origin, development, structure, and use ofwhichas a demonstrative element. This largely qualitative study shows that demonstrativewhichhad its heyday in the late Middle English and early Modern English periods. The subsequent reduction of both type and token… read more

Bergs, Alexander 2004 Letters: A new approach to text typology Letter Writing, Nevalainen, Terttu and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen (eds.), pp. 207–227 | Article

This paper explores the question how far “letters” as one specific text type can be subdivided into smaller groups of texts (i.e. subtypes such as “requests”, “orders”, or “reports”) on the basis of socio-psychological and pragmatic dimensions and factors, including speech act and accommodation… read more

Bergs, Alexander and Dieter Stein 2001 The role of markedness in the actuation and actualization of linguistic change Actualization: Linguistic Change in Progress, Andersen, Henning (ed.), pp. 79–94 | Article

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Contexts and Constructions

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