Tom Bossuyt
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tom Bossuyt plays a role.
Articles
2023. Concessive conditionals beyond Europe: A typological survey. Studies in Language 47:1, pp. 1–31
The present study is concerned with complex sentences known as concessive conditionals from a functional-typological perspective. It examines the coding strategies used in the protasis of the three subtypes of concessive conditionals – viz. scalar, alternative, and universal concessive… read more | Article
2022. Emerging into your family of constructions: German [IRR was] ‘no matter what’. Variation and Grammaticalization of Verbal Constructions, Czicza, Dániel and Gabriele Diewald (eds.), pp. 150–180
Starting from the term “family of constructions”, the present article investigates lexical and syntactic variation in a subtype of German concessive conditionals which is marked by was (‘what’) in combination with expressions of irrelevance like egal (‘no matter’). 12,894 examples from the DeReKo… read more | Article
