Kasper Boye

List of John Benjamins publications for which Kasper Boye plays a role.

Journal

Boye, Kasper 2024 Evidentiality, discourse prominence and grammaticalizationEvidentiality, Modality and Grammaticalization, Mélac, Eric (ed.), pp. 575–607 | Article
This paper seeks to answer three questions: (1) What is the difference between grammatical and lexical indications of information source? (2) What qualifies an element for grammaticalization as an evidential? (3) How can we identify grammatical evidentials and instances of evidential… read more
Boye, Kasper and Peter Harder 2022 Grammaticalization and pragmaticsHandbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 696–709 | Chapter
Functional-cognitive linguists are typically more interested in what is shared between grammar and other aspects of language than in what is special about grammar. Construction grammar as the currently most prominent functional-cognitive theory of grammar explicitly downplays the grammar-lexicon… read more
Sun, Linlin and Kasper Boye 2019 The grammatical-lexical distinction in Chinese aspectual markersStudies in Language 43:3, pp. 668–714 | Article
This paper discusses the grammatical-lexical distinction based on Boye and Harder (2012) in the class of aspectual markers in Chinese and aims to decide whether these markers are grammatical or lexical in a theoretically anchored sense. To accomplish this, the language-general criteria proposed… read more
Boye, Kasper and Peter Harder 2013 Grammaticalization and pragmaticsHandbook of Pragmatics: 2013 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Article
Boye, Kasper and Peter Harder 2009 Evidentiality: Linguistic categories and grammaticalizationEvidentiality in language and cognition, Ekberg, Lena and Carita Paradis (eds.), pp. 9–43 | Article
This article takes up two closely connected theoretical unclarities: the questions of what a linguistic category is, and what it means for linguistic elements to have grammatical rather than lexical status. The two issues are discussed with reference to the case of evidentiality. The point of… read more
Boye, Kasper and Peter Harder 2007 Complement-taking predicates: Usage and linguistic structureStudies in Language 31:3, pp. 569–606 | Article
In recent years, there has been considerable discussion about the nature of clausal subordination (cf., for instance, Schilperoord & Verhagen 1998, Verhagen 2001, Verhagen to appear, Diessel & Tomasello 2001, Thompson 2002). One of the foci has been the status of complement clauses of… read more
Boye, Kasper 2005 Rraising verbs vs. auxiliariesHistorical Linguistics 2003: Selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11–15 August 2003, Fortescue, Michael, Eva Skafte Jensen, Jens Erik Mogensen and Lene Schøsler (eds.), pp. 31–46 | Article