Sylvie Hancil

List of John Benjamins publications for which Sylvie Hancil plays a role.

Titles

Different Slants on Grammaticalization

Edited by Sylvie Hancil and Vittorio Tantucci

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 232] 2023. vi, 284 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change

Edited by Sylvie Hancil, Tine Breban and José Vicente Lozano

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 202] 2018. vi, 433 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Transcategoriality: A crosslinguistic perspective

Edited by Sylvie Hancil, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville and Huy Linh Dao

Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5:1 (2018) v, 187 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Cognitive psychology | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics

Grammaticalization – Theory and Data

Edited by Sylvie Hancil and Ekkehard König

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 162] 2014. viii, 293 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Prosody and Iconicity

Edited by Sylvie Hancil and Daniel Hirst

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 13] 2013. xv, 252 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Hancil, Sylvie 2023 Chapter 10. An emerging final particle: The case of quoi ‘what’ in FrenchDifferent Slants on Grammaticalization, Hancil, Sylvie and Vittorio Tantucci (eds.), pp. 263–281 | Chapter
Turn-taking is one of the contexts leading to innovative language use. In this article, I will explore the relationship between the emergence of grammatical patterns and intersubjectivity. Final particles belong to the category of linguistic expressions that generate the production of… read more
Tantucci, Vittorio and Sylvie Hancil 2023 IntroductionDifferent Slants on Grammaticalization, Hancil, Sylvie and Vittorio Tantucci (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter
The study of the use of quotative like has been the object of increasing interest from linguists over the last two decades (see Romaine & Lange 1991; Buchstaller 2002, among others) as it is a recent and global phenomenon. By contrast, final like is more established and restricted to varieties in… read more
Haselow, Alexander and Sylvie Hancil 2021 Grammar, discourse, and the grammar-discourse interfaceStudies at the Grammar-Discourse Interface: Discourse markers and discourse-related grammatical phenomena, Haselow, Alexander and Sylvie Hancil (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter
Breban, Tine and Sylvie Hancil 2018 Introduction: Grammaticalization in the 2010s – A dialogue between the old and the newNew Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change, Hancil, Sylvie, Tine Breban and José Vicente Lozano (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter
Hancil, Sylvie 2018 (Inter)subjectification and paradigmaticization: The case study of the final particle but New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change, Hancil, Sylvie, Tine Breban and José Vicente Lozano (eds.), pp. 291–314 | Chapter
This paper proposes a diachronic analysis of final but in a corpus of Northern English, a dialect where final particles represent a characteristic feature of the grammar. Recently, much emphasis was given to the study of but from a synchronic perpective in American and Australian English. This… read more
Hancil, Sylvie 2018 Transcategoriality and right peripheryTranscategoriality: A crosslinguistic perspective, Hancil, Sylvie, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville and Huy Linh Dao (eds.), pp. 61–76 | Article
Among the various syntactic functions that transcategorial but can take, it is the final particle that is the focus of our attention. As it is a characteristic feature of Northern English colloquial conversations, the semantic-pragmatic analysis is pursued in the spoken section of the Scottish… read more
Hancil, Sylvie, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville and Huy Linh Dao 2018 Introduction: Transcategoriality: A crosslinguistic perspectiveTranscategoriality: A crosslinguistic perspective, Hancil, Sylvie, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville and Huy Linh Dao (eds.), pp. 1–7 | Introduction
Hancil, Sylvie 2014 The final particle but in British English: an instance of cooptation and grammaticalization at workGrammaticalization – Theory and Data, Hancil, Sylvie and Ekkehard König (eds.), pp. 235–256 | Article
Even though final but is still a relatively recent phenomenon in British English, it is worth studying in more detail. The purpose of the article is to shed some light on final but in the spoken part of the British National Corpus (BNC) and in the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English… read more
Hancil, Sylvie and Ekkehard König 2014 IntroductionGrammaticalization – Theory and Data, Hancil, Sylvie and Ekkehard König (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
Hancil, Sylvie 2013 IntroductionProsody and Iconicity, Hancil, Sylvie and Daniel Hirst (eds.), pp. vii–xvi | Article