Elisabeth Leiss
List of John Benjamins publications for which Elisabeth Leiss plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 0165-7763
Journal
Titles
Thetics and Categoricals
Edited by Werner Abraham, Elisabeth Leiss and Yasuhiro Fujinawa
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 262] 2020. vii, 390 pp.
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Modes of Modality: Modality, typology, and universal grammar
Edited by Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 149] 2014. vi, 511 pp.
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between
Edited by Sibilla Cantarini, Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 165] 2014. x, 365 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Modality–Aspect Interfaces: Implications and typological solutions
Edited by Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss
[Typological Studies in Language, 79] 2008. xxiv, 422 pp.
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Nominal Determination: Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence
Edited by Elisabeth Stark, Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 89] 2007. viii, 370 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Typology
Articles
2021. On conceptualizing grammatical change in a Darwinian framework: A reply to Hubert Haider. Biological Evolution: More than a metaphor for grammar change, Manzini, Maria Rita (ed.), pp. 93–108
Approaching language change within a Darwinian framework constitutes a long-standing tradition within the literature of diachronic linguistics. However, many publications remain vague, omitting conceptual details or missing necessary terminology. For example, phylogenetic trees of language families… read more | Commentary
2020. Categorical versus thetic sentences in the Universal Grammar of Realism. Thetics and Categoricals, Abraham, Werner, Elisabeth Leiss and Yasuhiro Fujinawa (eds.), pp. 13–30
The aim of this paper is to outline that the notions of thetic versus categorical sentences are characteristic of a long tradition of philosophy, especially of the philosophy of Realism. Characteristic of Realism is a highly developed theory of the copula. Sentences consist of a subject, a rather… read more | Chapter
2017. Multiple case binding – The principled underspecification of case exponency. Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency, Hellan, Lars, Andrej L. Malchukov and Michela Cennamo (eds.), pp. 27–82
Chapter
2014. Review of Salmons (2012): A history of German. What the past reveals about today’s language. Studies in Language 38:2, pp. 405–412
Review
2014. Modes of modality in an Un-Cartesian framework. Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between, Cantarini, Sibilla, Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss (eds.), pp. 47–62
The central aim of this paper is to show that Certainty as encoded by the linguistic means of epistemicity and evidentiality differs in essential ways form Certainty in metalinguistic terms (Objectivity). The paper starts with a presentation of the building blocks of the epistemic and evidential… read more | Article
2014. Introduction. Modes of Modality: Modality, typology, and universal grammar, Leiss, Elisabeth and Werner Abraham (eds.), pp. 1–16
Article
2008. Introduction: Aspect-modality interfaces and interchanges across languages. Modality–Aspect Interfaces: Implications and typological solutions, Abraham, Werner and Elisabeth Leiss (eds.), pp. xi–xxiv
Miscellaneous
2008. The silent and aspect-driven patterns of deonticity and epistemicity: A chapter in diachronic typology. Modality–Aspect Interfaces: Implications and typological solutions, Abraham, Werner and Elisabeth Leiss (eds.), pp. 15–41
Article
2007. Introduction. Nominal Determination: Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence, Stark, Elisabeth, Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham (eds.), pp. 1–20
Miscellaneous
2007. Covert patterns of definiteness/indefiniteness and aspectuality in Old Icelandic, Gothic, and Old High German. Nominal Determination: Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence, Stark, Elisabeth, Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham (eds.), pp. 73–102
It is assumed that the rise of the defi nite article is due to changes in the aspectual system of a language. Defi niteness and perfective aspect are shown to be just two instantiations of the same grammatical function. So are indefi niteness and imperfective aspect. Defi nite nouns and perfective… read more | Article
2006. The impersonal passive: voice suspended under aspectual conditions. Passivization and Typology: Form and function, Abraham, Werner and Larisa Leisiö (eds.), pp. 502–517
Article