Uta Reinöhl
List of John Benjamins publications in which Uta Reinöhl is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0176-4225 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9714
Title
The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations
Edited by Sonja Riesberg, Uta Reinöhl and Birgit Hellwig
The documentarist turn, i.e., the growing impact of documentary concepts and practices within general linguistics, has increased awareness of the empirical foundations of our discipline, accompanied by an appreciation of the value of observable linguistic behaviour. Today, there exist… read more2026 Chapter 1. Nikolaus Himmelmann and the documentarist turn The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations, Riesberg, Sonja, Uta Reinöhl and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Chapter
2026 Chapter 12. More diachronic than you think: Historical depth within language documentation corpora and its potential to mitigate two major biases in linguistics The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations, Riesberg, Sonja, Uta Reinöhl and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 287–313 | Chapter
This paper surveys and spotlights historical layers within language documentation corpora, with a particular emphasis on the many languages for which we lack historical written attestation. I highlight the potentials of lesser-prestige and lesser-accessible, often more conservative varieties, as… read more
2026 The one–new–idea constraint, functor–argument metaphors, and holistic speech processing Functions of Language: Online-First Articles | Article
The one-new-idea constraint (ONICON) is a hypothesis about how much information we can package in one intonation unit (Chafe 1982, 1992, 1994). Chafe (1994) suggests that constructions containing multiple new content words do not necessarily violate the ONICON. Examples include prefabs as well… read more
2026 The ‘idea’ in the one-new-idea constraint Functions of Language: Online-First Articles | Article
This paper offers a conceptual clarification and an operationalization of a classic functionalist generalization: the one-new-idea constraint (Chafe 1982, 1987, 1994). While often referenced, this constraint has not, to date, been sufficiently spelled-out or made sufficiently precise to become… read more
2026 How much is too much? The one-new-idea constraint and the information–intonation interface Functions of Language: Online-First Articles | Introduction
This paper serves as an overview to the special issue focusing on Chafe’s one-new-idea constraint (ONICON). We provide an introduction to the constraint, the articles in the volume, and common themes discussed by the papers.
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2025 Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40 Diachronica 42:2, pp. 137–160 | Editorial
2018 When grammaticalization does not occur: Prosody-syntax mismatches in Indo-Aryan Diachronica 35:2, pp. 238–276 | Article
Recent decades have seen a surge of interest in grammaticalization. In this paper, however, we are not concerned with reaching a better understanding of the nature of grammaticalization phenomena or their triggering factors, but we ask under what circumstances grammaticalization does not take… read more
2016 A single origin of Indo-European primary adpositions? Unveiling the Indo-Aryan branch-off Diachronica 33:1, pp. 95–130 | Article
It has been widely assumed that the primary adpositions of modern Indo-European languages constitute a historically identical category, descending from the Proto-Indo-European ‘local particles’. I argue that this assumption needs to be revised, because a major branch of the language family,… read more