Linguistics and Literary History: In honour of Sylvia Adamson
Edited by Anita Auer, Victorina González-Díaz, Jane Hodson and Violeta Sotirova
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 25] 2016. vi, 216 pp.
Victorina González-Díaz
List of John Benjamins publications for which Victorina González-Díaz plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical literature & literary studies
English Adjective Comparison: A historical perspective
Victorina González-Díaz
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 299] 2008. xix, 252 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2018 Chapter 3. Adjective stacking in Early Modern English: Some stylistic considerations The Noun Phrase in English: Past and present, Ho-Cheong Leung, Alex and Wim van der Wurff (eds.), pp. 47–76 | Chapter
Previous scholarship dates the development of stacked modification in English to the late Middle English period and the operationalisation of the modern NP functional structure to the end of the seventeenth century (Fischer 2006; Feist 2012). These studies have mainly focused on linguistic factors… read more
2016 Introduction Linguistics and Literary History: In honour of Sylvia Adamson, Auer, Anita, Victorina González-Díaz, Jane Hodson and Violeta Sotirova (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article
2016 Chapter 7. “Worth a moment’s notice”: Jane Austen and conversational parentheticals Linguistics and Literary History: In honour of Sylvia Adamson, Auer, Anita, Victorina González-Díaz, Jane Hodson and Violeta Sotirova (eds.), pp. 129–150 | Article
This paper explores the competition between round brackets and other punctuation
marks as delimiters of kinesic parentheticals in Austen’s dialogue (e.g.
said Harriet, in a mortified voice). Drawing mainly on an analysis of Emma,
the investigation suggests that, linguistically, round brackets in… read more
2012 Round brackets in Jane Austen English Text Construction 5:2, pp. 174–207 | Article
Round brackets undergo a process of stylistic re-evaluation that coincides with the development of Austen’s literary career (from pernicious elements that break the perspicuity of the Enlightened sentence to positively appraised markers of spoken spontaneity and emotion). Through a corpus-based… read more
2010 Iconicity and subjectivisation in the English NP: The case of little Signergy, Conradie, C. Jac, Ronél Johl, Marthinus Beukes, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 319–345 | Article
Through a corpus-based study of the behaviour of little (ME-PDE), the paper explores (a) the effects of processes of subjectivisation (vid. De Smet and Verstraete 2006) on the syntactic configuration of the English NP and (b) how these latter relate to key iconicity postulates. More specifically,… read more