The Development of Speaker-Oriented Adverbs in English: Reanalysis, ellipsis, lexicalization or analogy?
Dagmar Haumann and Kristin Killie
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 287] 2025. ix, 185 pp. + index
Kristin Killie
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kristin Killie plays a role.
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Subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2022 Extravagance, productivity and the development of - ingly adverbs Extravagant Morphology: Studies in rule-bending, pattern-extending and theory-challenging morphology, Eitelmann, Matthias and Dagmar Haumann (eds.), pp. 51–72 | Chapter
The paper claims that the process of deriving -ly adverbs from present participles has become increasingly productive over the last 500 years. It is argued that many ‘-ingly adverbs’ are extravagant, in the sense of Haspelmath (1999). This claim is supported by the fact that such adverbs are very… read more
2015 The grammaticalization of progressive constructions with a focus on the English progressive Historical Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo, 5-9 August 2013, Haug, Dag T.T. (ed.), pp. 213–232 | Article
The article claims that progressive markers may develop out of purely emphatic markers. These markers develop into markers of ‘stressed ongoingness’, which emphasize that the timing of an event is remarkable, either in relation to some temporal reference point or in relation to some other event.… read more
2012 Old English–Late British language contact and the English progressive Language Contact and Development around the North Sea, Stenroos, Merja, Martti Mäkinen and Inge Særheim (eds.), pp. 117–140 | Article
This chapter assesses the hypothesis that the Late British verbal noun construction influenced what was to become the English progressive. Evidence from archaeology, genetics, second language acquisition research, contact linguistics and grammaticalization studies is assessed and compared. The… read more
2008 From locative to durative to focalized? The English progressive and 'PROG imperfective drift' English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006, Gotti, Maurizio, Marina Dossena and Richard Dury (eds.), pp. 69–88 | Article
In the present paper I test the claim of Bertinetto et al. (2000) that the English progressive has undergone ‘PROG imperfective drift’, originating as a locative construction, to develop into a durative progressive and subsequently also into a focalized progressive. I argue that it is doubtful… read more
2007 On the development and use of appearance/attribute adverbs in English Diachronica 24:2, pp. 327–371 | Article
It is commonly claimed that in English adjectives denoting colour and other physical properties, referred to here as ‘appearance/attribute’ adjectives, do not give rise to adverbs. This alleged constraint has been related to the fact that the adjectives in question are stative. In this paper I… read more