Bernd Kortmann | John Benjamins

Siegel, Jeff, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Bernd Kortmann 2014 Measuring analyticity and syntheticity in creoles Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 29:1, pp. 49–85 | Article

Creoles (here including expanded pidgins) are commonly viewed as being more analytic than their lexifiers and other languages in terms of grammatical marking. The purpose of the study reported in this article was to examine the validity of this view by measuring the frequency of analytic (and… read more

Kortmann, Bernd 2011 Review of Fabricius-Hansen & Ramm (2008): ‘Subordination’ versus ‘coordination‘ in sentence and text: A cross-linguistic perspective Functions of Language 18:1, pp. 87–95 | Review

Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt and Bernd Kortmann 2011 Typological profiling: Learner Englishes versus indigenized L2 varieties of English Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes: Bridging a paradigm gap, Mukherjee, Joybrato and Marianne Hundt (eds.), pp. 167–188 | Article

Drawing on naturalistic corpus data, this study is an exercise in establishing typological profiles of learner varieties (as sampled in the International Corpus of Learner English) vis-à-vis indigenized L2 varieties of English (as represented in the International Corpus of English), though we also… read more

Kortmann, Bernd and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi 2009 World Englishes between simplification and complexification World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference, Hoffmann, Thomas and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 263–286 | Article

This paper offers a broad empirical morphosyntactic study contributing to three debates in linguistics, one of long standing (the so-called equi-complexity axiom), the other two rather more recent, namely McWhorter’s claim (2001 a, b, 2007) that (pidgins and) creoles have the simplest grammars, and… read more

Kortmann, Bernd 1999 Iconicity, Typology and Cognition Form Miming Meaning, Nänny, Max and Olga Fischer (eds.), pp. 375–392 | Article

Kortmann, Bernd 1998 The Evolution of Adverbial Subordinators in Europe Historical Linguistics 1997: Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, 10–17 August 1997, Schmid, Monika S., Jennifer R. Austin and Dieter Stein (eds.), pp. 213–228 | Article

Kortmann, Bernd 1991 The Triad "Tense-Aspect-Aktionsart": Problems and possible solutions Perspectives on Aspect and Aktionsart, Vetters, Carl and Willy Vandeweghe (eds.), pp. 9–30 | Article