Bernd Heine

List of John Benjamins publications for which Bernd Heine plays a role.

Book series

Journals

Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume I. Theoretical and methodological issues

Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine

[Typological Studies in Language, 19:1] 1991. xii, 360 pp.
Subjects Morphology | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume II. Types of grammatical markers

Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine

[Typological Studies in Language, 19:2] 1991. xii, 558 pp.
Subjects Morphology | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

Approaches to Grammaticalization: 2 Volumes (set)

Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine

[Typological Studies in Language, 19:S] 1990. xii, 360 pp. + xii, 560 pp.
Subjects Morphology | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

Readings in Creole Studies

Edited by Ian F. Hancock

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Theoretical linguistics
Andrason, Alexander and Bernd Heine 2023 Chapter 9. On the grammaticalization of ideophonesDifferent Slants on Grammaticalization, Hancil, Sylvie and Vittorio Tantucci (eds.), pp. 237–262 | Chapter
Ideophones, like English bang or thud, are interactive expressions used as vivid depictions of sensory imagery of states, events, objects, or qualities (cf. Dingemanse 2011, 2012, 2018; Dingemanse & Akita 2017; Andrason 2020, 2021). They are claimed to represent a universal class of linguistic… read more
Heine, Bernd, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva and Haiping Long 2021 Chapter 1. On the rise of discourse markersStudies at the Grammar-Discourse Interface: Discourse markers and discourse-related grammatical phenomena, Haselow, Alexander and Sylvie Hancil (eds.), pp. 23–56 | Chapter
Discourse markers exhibit a range of grammatical properties that set them apart from many other lexical and grammatical forms. A number of hypotheses have been proposed to account for these properties. Most commonly, such accounts have drawn on grammaticalization theory, less commonly also on the… read more
Heine, Bernd, Gunther Kaltenböck and Tania Kuteva 2020 On the status of wh-exclamatives in EnglishFunctions of Language 27:2, pp. 207–233 | Article
Exclamative expressions like What an enormous crowd came! and How wonderful this journey is! have been described as forming one of the four basic sentence (or clause) types of English. The present paper discusses the main features of this type and analyzes them with reference to the framework of… read more
Heine, Bernd, Tania Kuteva and Haiping Long 2020 Chapter 2. Dual process frameworks on reasoning and linguistic discourse: A comparisonGrammar and Cognition: Dualistic models of language structure and language processing, Haselow, Alexander and Gunther Kaltenböck (eds.), pp. 59–89 | Chapter
The objective of the present paper is to compare two kinds of research traditions that developed in the course of the last decades to understand mental and linguistic processing. One tradition relies on the perspective and methodology commonly used in social psychology, cognitive psychology and… read more
Heine, Bernd 2018 Are there two different ways of approaching grammaticalization?New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change, Hancil, Sylvie, Tine Breban and José Vicente Lozano (eds.), pp. 23–54 | Chapter
Grammaticalization as a framework of linguistic analysis developed a fairly stable format in the course of the 1980s and 1990s (Lehmann 1982; Heine & Reh 1984; Traugott & Heine 1991a, 1991b; Heine et al. 1991; Hopper & Traugott 1993; Bybee et al. 1994; Haspelmath 1999). Around the turn of the… read more
Heine, Bernd 2016 On non-finiteness and canonical imperativesFiniteness and Nominalization, Chamoreau, Claudine and Zarina Estrada-Fernández (eds.), pp. 243–268 | Article
Imperatives exhibit cross-linguistically a wide range of structures, which makes it difficult to generalize about them or to propose a structural definition that would apply to all or at least to most of them. This article is concerned with canonical imperatives, that is, information units that… read more
Heine, Bernd 2016 Extra-clausal constituents and language contact: The case of discourse markersOutside the Clause: Form and function of extra-clausal constituents, Kaltenböck, Gunther, Evelien Keizer and Arne Lohmann (eds.), pp. 243–272 | Article
Extra-clausal constituents as proposed by Dik (1997: 379–407) are linguistic elements that are typically marked off from the clause proper by breaks or pause-like inflections in their prosodic contour, or occur on their own, they can only be understood in terms of pragmatic rules and principles and… read more
Heine, Bernd, Christa König and Karsten Legere 2016 Reacting to language endangerment: The Akie of north-central TanzaniaEndangered Languages and Languages in Danger: Issues of documentation, policy, and language rights, Filipović, Luna and Martin Pütz (eds.), pp. 313–333 | Article
Language endangerment in Africa is of a different kind than it is in many other parts of the world. Globalization and the impact of languages such as English, French, or Portuguese are not a major problem for the maintenance of African languages. Language loss is no less a factor in Africa than it… read more
Heine, Bernd, Gunther Kaltenböck and Tania Kuteva 2016 Chapter 2. On insubordination and cooptationInsubordination, Evans, Nicholas and Honoré Watanabe (eds.), pp. 39–64 | Article
The chapter is concerned more generally with what, following Evans (2007), we call insubordinated (or insubordinate) clauses, that is, with the conventionalized main clause use of what, prima facie, appear to be formally subordinate clauses. Insubordinated clauses are, as we argue here, information… read more
Heine, Bernd, Heiko Narrog and Haiping Long 2016 Constructional change vs. grammaticalization: From compounding to derivationStudies in Language 40:1, pp. 137–175 | Article
Building on recent findings made in the framework of Construction Grammar, on the one hand, and within the framework on grammaticalization, on the other, the present paper is concerned with the development from lexical compounding to derivation. Compounding is presumably the most common source of… read more
Heine, Bernd 2014 Explaining language structure: On categorial misbehavior in Walman (Papua New Guinea)Grammaticalization – Theory and Data, Hancil, Sylvie and Ekkehard König (eds.), pp. 67–86 | Article
Typically, certain grammatical features are associated with one particular lexical category rather than some other category. Nouns can be modified by numerals or adjectives, can take determiners like demonstratives or possessive attributes, can be inflected for number, case, etc. Verbs, by… read more
Heine, Bernd and Motoki Nomachi 2013 Chapter 4. Contact-induced replication: Some diagnosticsShared Grammaticalization: With special focus on the Transeurasian languages, Robbeets, Martine and Hubert Cuyckens (eds.), pp. 67–100 | Chapter
That contact between genetically unrelated languages (or dialects) has taken place is relatively easy to establish when they share, for instance, sufficient lexical or grammatical forms. This is usually much more difficult to demonstrate when the shared elements concern structure and/or meaning,… read more
Heine, Bernd, Gunther Kaltenböck and Tania Kuteva 2013 On the origin of GrammarNew Perspectives on the Origins of Language, Lefebvre, Claire, Bernard Comrie and Henri Cohen (eds.), pp. 379–406 | Article
The goals of the present chapter are twofold. On the one hand, it aims to show the potential that studies on grammaticalization offer for reconstructing earlier phases in the evolution of language or languages, that is, phases that are not within the scope of the classical methods of historical… read more
Heine, Bernd 2011 Areas of Grammaticalization and Geographical TypologyGeographical Typology and Linguistic Areas: With special reference to Africa, Hieda, Osamu, Christa König and Hiroshi Nakagawa (eds.), pp. 41–66 | Article
Kaltenböck, Gunther, Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva 2011 On thetical grammarStudies in Language 35:4, pp. 852–897 | Article
Most frameworks of linguistic analysis tend to highlight phenomena of language use and/or language knowledge such as sentence and word structure, while backgrounding or ignoring other phenomena that are interpreted as being of more marginal interest for the linguist. The main goal of this paper is… read more
For good reasons, linguists are highly skeptical when it comes to predicting linguistic change. As has been argued in Heine (2003: 598–599), based on observations on some regularities of grammatical change made within the framework of grammaticalization theory, however, it seems possible to… read more
Heine, Bernd 2009 From nominal to clausal morphosyntax: Complexity via expansionSyntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution, Givón, T. and Masayoshi Shibatani (eds.), pp. 23–52 | Article
The study of the rise of syntactic complexity, in particular of clause subordination and recursive language structures has more recently become the topic of intense discussion. The present paper builds on the reconstruction of grammatical evolution as proposed in Heine and Kuteva (2007) to present… read more
Heine, Bernd 2008 Contact-induced word order change without word order changeLanguage Contact and Contact Languages, Siemund, Peter and Noemi Kintana (eds.), pp. 33–60 | Article
Heine, Bernd and Christa König 2005 Grammatical Hybrids: Between Serialization, Compounding and Derivation in !Xun (North Khoisan)Morphology and its demarcations: Selected papers from the 11th Morphology meeting, Vienna, February 2004, Dressler, Wolfgang U., Dieter Kastovsky, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and Franz Rainer (eds.), pp. 81–96 | Article
Heine, Bernd and Tania Kuteva 2003 On contact-induced grammaticalizationStudies in Language 27:3, pp. 529–572 | Article
Grammaticalization is based on universal strategies of conceptual transfer. Contact-induced language change on the other hand is an areally confined process resulting from specific historical events. What this suggests is that the two constitute quite divergent phenomena and, in fact, in the… read more
König, Christa and Bernd Heine 2003 Location and motion in !Xun (Namibia)Motion, Direction and Location in Languages: In honor of Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Shay, Erin and Uwe Seibert (eds.), pp. 129–150 | Article
Heine, Bernd 2002 On the role of context in grammaticalizationNew Reflections on Grammaticalization, Wischer, Ilse and Gabriele Diewald (eds.), pp. 83–101 | Article
Heine, Bernd 2001 16. Ways of explaining possessionDimensions of Possession, Baron, Irène, Michael Herslund and Finn Sørensen (eds.), pp. 311–328 | Chapter
Heine, Bernd 2000 Polysemy involving reflexive and reciprocal markers in African languagesReciprocals: Forms and functions, Frajzyngier, Zygmunt and Traci Walker (eds.), pp. 1–30 | Article
Heine, Bernd and Kézié Koyenzi Lébikaza 1997 On Attributive Possession in KabiyeEssays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to T. Givón, Bybee, Joan L., John Haiman and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 217–230 | Article
Heine, Bernd 1995 On the German werden FutureDiscourse, Grammar and Typology: Papers in honor of John W.M. Verhaar, Abraham, Werner, T. Givón and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 119–138 | Article
Heine, Bernd 1995 Agent-Oriented vs. Epistemic Modality: Some Observations on German ModalsModality in Grammar and Discourse, Bybee, Joan L. and Suzanne Fleischman (eds.), pp. 17–54 | Article
Heine, Bernd 1994 Grammaticalization as an explanatory parameterPerspectives on Grammaticalization, Pagliuca, William (ed.), pp. 255–287 | Article
Heine, Bernd 1994 Areal influence on grammaticalizationLanguage Contact and Language Conflict, Pütz, Martin (ed.), pp. 55–68 | Article
Heine, Bernd 1992 Grammaticalization ChainsStudies in Language 16:2, pp. 335–368 | Article
Recent studies in grammaticalization suggest that the development of grammatical categories is the result of an interaction between cognitive and pragmatic operations, and that this development may lead to the rise of continuous linguistic structures which have been referred to as… read more
Heine, Bernd, Ulrike Claudi and Friederike Hünnemeyer 1991 From cognition to grammar: Evidence from African languagesApproaches to Grammaticalization: Volume I. Theoretical and methodological issues, Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Bernd Heine (eds.), pp. 149–188 | Article
Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Bernd Heine 1991 IntroductionApproaches to Grammaticalization: Volume I. Theoretical and methodological issues, Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Bernd Heine (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Bernd Heine 1991 IntroductionApproaches to Grammaticalization: Volume II. Types of grammatical markers, Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Bernd Heine (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
Heine, Bernd 1990 The dative in Ik and KanuriStudies in Typology and Diachrony: Papers presented to Joseph H. Greenberg on his 75th birthday, Croft, William A., Suzanne Kemmer and Keith Denning (eds.), pp. 129–150 | Article
Claudi, Ulrike and Bernd Heine 1986 On the Metaphorical Base of GrammarStudies in Language 10:2, pp. 297–335 | Article
Heine, Bernd 1979 6. Some linguistic characteristics of African-based pidginsReadings in Creole Studies, Hancock, Ian F. (ed.), pp. 89–98 | Chapter