Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages
Edited by Evie Coussé, Steffen Höder, Benjamin Lyngfelt and Julia Prentice
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 37] 2023. v, 278 pp.
Steffen Höder
List of John Benjamins publications for which Steffen Höder plays a role.
Subjects Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Constructions in Contact 2: Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 30] 2021. vii, 437 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Multilingualism | Theoretical linguistics
Constructions in Contact: Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 24] 2018. vi, 316 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Stability and Divergence in Language Contact: Factors and Mechanisms
Edited by Kurt Braunmüller, Steffen Höder and Karoline Kühl
[Studies in Language Variation, 16] 2014. vi, 298 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Multilingual Discourse Production: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives
Edited by Svenja Kranich, Viktor Becher, Steffen Höder and Juliane House
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 12] 2011. viii, 312 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies
2023 Chapter 1. Introduction: Nordic languages and construction grammar Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages, Coussé, Evie, Steffen Höder, Benjamin Lyngfelt and Julia Prentice (eds.), pp. 1–23 | Chapter
2023 Chapter 4. The Devil is in the schema: A constructional perspective on Swedish taboo-avoiding strategies Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages, Coussé, Evie, Steffen Höder, Benjamin Lyngfelt and Julia Prentice (eds.), pp. 81–113 | Chapter
Swedish swearwords are predominantly religious in origin (e.g. fan ‘the Devil’, helvete ‘hell’, and jävlar ‘devils, demons’). The former taboo status of swearing is still reflected in the existence and productive use of taboo-avoiding strategies, most notably phonological modification (e.g.… read more
2021 Widening the scope: Recent trends in constructional contact linguistics Constructions in Contact 2: Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition, Boas, Hans C. and Steffen Höder (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Chapter
2021 Additional language acquisition as emerging multilingualism: A Construction Grammar approach Constructions in Contact 2: Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition, Boas, Hans C. and Steffen Höder (eds.), pp. 309–337 | Chapter
Recent years have seen an increasing interest in applying Construction Grammar to additional language (AL) acquisition as well as in constructionist approaches to language contact and multilingualism, in particular Diasystematic Construction Grammar (DCxG; Höder, 2018). This paper combines both… read more
2018 Construction Grammar and language contact: An introduction Constructions in Contact: Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages, Boas, Hans C. and Steffen Höder (eds.), pp. 5–36 | Chapter
2018 Grammar is community-specific: Background and basic concepts of Diasystematic Construction Grammar Constructions in Contact: Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages, Boas, Hans C. and Steffen Höder (eds.), pp. 37–70 | Chapter
Mainstream grammatical theory and traditional grammaticography concentrate on single languages or varieties, which are conceptualised as pre-existing, distinct entities and analysed in terms of coherent, static, ideally variation-free language systems. This is in stark contrast to actual language… read more
2016 Phonological elements and Diasystematic Construction Grammar Constructions across Grammars, Hilpert, Martin and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 67–96 | Article
Usage-based CxG approaches share the central assumption that any grammar has to be acquired and organised through input-based abstraction and categorisation. Diasystematic Construction Grammar (DCxG) is based on the idea that these processes are not sensitive to language boundaries. Multilingual… read more
2014 Phonological elements and Diasystematic Construction Grammar Reflections on Constructions across Grammars, Hilpert, Martin and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 202–231 | Article
Usage-based CxG approaches share the central assumption that any grammar has to be acquired and organised through input-based abstraction and categorisation. Diasystematic Construction Grammar (DCxG) is based on the idea that these processes are not sensitive to language boundaries. Multilingual… read more
2014 Convergence vs. divergence from a diasystematic perspective Stability and Divergence in Language Contact: Factors and Mechanisms, Braunmüller, Kurt, Steffen Höder and Karoline Kühl (eds.), pp. 39–60 | Article
Convergence and divergence are usually defined as changes in opposite directions
– convergence increases, divergence decreases interlingual similarities
between two given languages or varieties. Additionally, convergence is often
explained as the ‘natural’, expectable process in language… read more
2014 Constructing diasystems: Grammatical organisation in bilingual groups The Sociolinguistics of Grammar, Åfarli, Tor A. and Brit Mæhlum (eds.), pp. 137–152 | Article
From a global and historical perspective, multilingualism or at least multilectalism is the rule rather than the exception. However, linguistic theory continues to focus on the idea of a prototypically coherent, static, and monolingual language system. A more realistic approach can set out from the… read more
2012 Annotating ambiguity: Insights from a corpus-based study on syntactic change in Old Swedish Multilingual Corpora and Multilingual Corpus Analysis, Schmidt, Thomas and Kai Wörner (eds.), pp. 245–271 | Article
The synchronic and diachronic variability of historical texts poses substantial difficulties in the annotation and analysis of historical corpora. One main problem is that ongoing language change and particularly grammaticalisation phenomena lead to syntactic ambiguity. This contribution shows how… read more
2012 Multilingual constructions: A diasystematic approach to common structures Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies, Braunmüller, Kurt and Christoph Gabriel (eds.), pp. 241–258 | Article
Language contact phenomena are often described with reference to their effect on the monolingual systems of the varieties involved, both in historical and in contact linguistics. This contribution argues that an essentially multilingual perspective on these phenomena is more adequate. Bilingual… read more
2011 Introduction Multilingual Discourse Production: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives, Kranich, Svenja, Viktor Becher, Steffen Höder and Juliane House (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article
2011 Dialect convergence across language boundaries: A challenge for areal linguistics Language Variation - European Perspectives III: Selected papers from the 5th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 5), Copenhagen, June 2009, Gregersen, Frans, Jeffrey K. Parrott and Pia Quist (eds.), pp. 173–184 | Article
2011 A tentative typology of translation-induced language change Multilingual Discourse Production: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives, Kranich, Svenja, Viktor Becher, Steffen Höder and Juliane House (eds.), pp. 11–44 | Article
Language contact through translation (LCTT) is a particular source of contact-induced language change. While investigations into individual scenarios have shown its importance, major works on language contact have largely neglected this type of language contact. In particular, no attempt has been… read more
2009 Converging languages, diverging varieties: Innovative relativisation patterns in Old Swedish Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations, Braunmüller, Kurt and Juliane House (eds.), pp. 73–100 | Article
In the Late Middle Ages, when Old Swedish develops into a written language it acquires simultaneously several innovative syntactic features, such as new relativisation patterns. On the basis of an annotated digital corpus of Late Old Swedish texts, appositive relative clauses and the pronominal… read more
2008 Verb-late word order in Old Swedish subordinate clauses: Loan, Ausbau phenomenon, or both? Language Contact and Contact Languages, Siemund, Peter and Noemi Kintana (eds.), pp. 163–184 | Article