Denise van Oers
List of John Benjamins publications in which Denise van Oers is involved.
Article
2027 Insults as a sentence type: A cross-linguistic perspective The Interpersonal Level in Functional Discourse Grammar, Serafim, Monielly, Matthias Mittendorfer and Kees Hengeveld (eds.), pp. 123–158 | Chapter
This paper asks whether insults are ever encoded as a distinct sentence type in natural languages, and hence form a distinct grammaticalized Illocution in the languages concerned. To assess this, we designed three mutually independent criteria and applied these to 29 constructions from 23… read more
