Melitta Gillmann
List of John Benjamins publications in which Melitta Gillmann is involved.
Articles
2026 Chapter 2. Vocative, where are you going, man? Cyclicity in pragmaticalization: From vocative to discourse marker and interjection “You can say you to me”: Address in German, Kretzenbacher, Heinz L., Horst J. Simon and Christa Dürscheid (eds.), pp. 12–46 | Chapter
Cyclical change is not exclusive to grammaticalization: A case in point is the secondary pragmaticalization of vocatives such as Germ. Mensch (‘(hu)man’) / Engl. man, or Germ. Alter (‘dude’) / Engl. dude into discourse markers and interjections, going along with the renovation of new vocatives.… read more
2018 Manner of motion and semantic transitivity: A usage-based perspective on change and continuity in the system of the German perfect auxiliaries haben and sein Reorganising Grammatical Variation: Diachronic studies in the retention, redistribution and refunctionalisation of linguistic variants, Dammel, Antje, Matthias Eitelmann and Mirjam Schmuck (eds.), pp. 231–268 | Chapter
Based on a corpus of the major Old High German texts and a corpus of contemporary German newspapers, the paper shows that the German auxiliary system is characterised by both continuity and change. While transitivity proves to be a stable predictor of haben selection throughout German language… read more