Katalin Nagy C.
List of John Benjamins publications for which Katalin Nagy C. plays a role.
Articles
2022 (Polite) directives in mediaeval Catalan: Constructions with the verb plaure (‘please’) Journal of Historical Pragmatics 23:1, pp. 54–83 | Article
This paper addresses an issue of diachronic speech act analysis and diachronic politeness research at the same time. Its primary aim is to examine uses of two grammatical constructions based on subjunctive forms of the verb plaure (‘please’) in medieval Catalan, relying on a corpus of texts from… read more
2014 Chapter 4. Methods and argumentation in historical linguistics: A case study The Evidential Basis of Linguistic Argumentation, Kertész, András and Csilla Rákosi (eds.), pp. 71–102 | Article
The present chapter aims to discuss some properties of historical linguistics argumentation, through the analysis of examples taken from actual research practice. Relying on Kertész and Rákosi’s (2012) p-model of scientific theorizing, it compares three competing accounts of the historical… read more
2010 The pragmatics of grammaticalisation: The role of implicatures in semantic change Journal of Historical Pragmatics 11:1, pp. 67–95 | Article
This paper aims to identify the role of pragmatics in grammaticalisation and to highlight the particular steps in the process of the conventionalisation of conversational implicatures on the basis of a historical pragmatic study concerning the grammaticalisation of the Catalan anar ‘to go’ +… read more