Samuel Zakowski
List of John Benjamins publications for which Samuel Zakowski plays a role.
Articles
2018 The evolution of the Ancient Greek deverbal pragmatic markers áge, íthi and phére Journal of Historical Pragmatics 19:1, pp. 55–91 | Article
In this paper, I look at the Ancient Greek expressions áge, íthi and phére, which are all usually translated as ‘come (on)’. After discussing some existing accounts of these items, I look at their structural – syntactic properties and argue that they can be regarded as pragmaticalized… read more
2014 You didn’t build that. a relevance-theoretic approach to President Obama’s campaign flub Pragmatics 24:4, pp. 819–838 | Article
During the 2012 U.S. Presidential campaign, President Obama turned some heads by stating “If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that”. His opponents argued that this was an attack on private enterprise (with “that” referring to business), while his supporters and fact-checking organizations… read more