Lost in Change: Causes and processes in the loss of grammatical elements and constructions
Edited by Svenja Kranich and Tine Breban
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 218] 2021. vi, 366 pp.
Svenja Kranich
List of John Benjamins publications for which Svenja Kranich plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Contrastive Pragmatics and Translation: Evaluation, epistemic modality and communicative styles in English and German
Svenja Kranich
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 261] 2016. xiv, 204 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Translation Studies
Multilingual Discourse Production: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives
Edited by Svenja Kranich, Viktor Becher, Steffen Höder and Juliane House
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 12] 2011. viii, 312 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies
2021 Decline and loss in the modal domain in recent English* : Decline and loss in the modal domain in recent English Lost in Change: Causes and processes in the loss of grammatical elements and constructions, Kranich, Svenja and Tine Breban (eds.), pp. 261–290 | Chapter
Numerous corpus studies have firmly established that in recent English, most core modals (e.g. must) have been declining in frequency, while the semi-modals (e.g. have to) have been on the rise (cf. e.g. Krug 2000; Mair & Leech 2006; Leech & Smith 2006). The present paper follows the… read more
2021 Lost in Change: Introduction Lost in Change: Causes and processes in the loss of grammatical elements and constructions, Kranich, Svenja and Tine Breban (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Introduction
2012 Changing conventions in English-German translations of popular scientific texts Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies, Braunmüller, Kurt and Christoph Gabriel (eds.), pp. 315–334 | Article
This contribution summarizes results of the project Covert Translation, where we investigated the influence of Anglophone communicative conventions on German via translation. Our hypothesis was that the prestige of English as a lingua franca and the growing number of translations from English into… read more
2011 Introduction Multilingual Discourse Production: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives, Kranich, Svenja, Viktor Becher, Steffen Höder and Juliane House (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article
2011 Review of Matras (2009): Language Contact Languages in Contrast 11:1, pp. 136–143 | Review
2011 A tentative typology of translation-induced language change Multilingual Discourse Production: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives, Kranich, Svenja, Viktor Becher, Steffen Höder and Juliane House (eds.), pp. 9–44 | Article
Language contact through translation (LCTT) is a particular source of contact-induced language change. While investigations into individual scenarios have shown its importance, major works on language contact have largely neglected this type of language contact. In particular, no attempt has been… read more
2010 Grammaticalization, subjectification and objectification Grammaticalization: Current views and issues, Stathi, Katerina, Elke Gehweiler and Ekkehard König (eds.), pp. 101–122 | Article
It has often been stated that grammaticalization is accompanied by subjectification (e.g. Traugott 1995), which has been rectified to the idea that this process typically tends to accompany only primary grammaticalization, i.e. the very early stages of grammaticalization (Traugott 2010). Taking… read more
2009 Convergence and divergence of communicative norms through language contact in translation Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations, Braunmüller, Kurt and Juliane House (eds.), pp. 125–152 | Article
This contribution addresses the question of whether and how translation as a classic case of language contact can act as a trigger for convergence and divergence phenomena between two languages. We present two studies which indicate that translation-induced convergence does not occur… read more
2008 Subjective progressives in seventeenth and eighteenth century English 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. 241–256 | Article
The aim of the study is to analyse the subjective uses of the progressive in 17th and 18th century English, i.e., uses of the progressives as expressions of speaker attitude. After an overview of the Old and Middle English meanings of the progressive, I discuss the three different types of… read more