John Myhill

List of John Benjamins publications for which John Myhill plays a role.

Title

Language, Religion and National Identity in Europe and the Middle East: A historical study

John Myhill

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 21] 2006. ix, 300 pp.

Subjects Language policy | Philosophy

Articles (16) | Order by:

Myhill, John 2006 Semantic parameters of vision words in Hebrew and English Languages in Contrast 6:2, pp. 229–260 | Article

English and Hebrew use sharply differing systems for categorizing the meanings of words referring to vision. In English, the relevant parameters of meaning relate to whether information has been visually recorded and registered and what type of image was captured (a still picture, a moving picture,… read more

Myhill, John 1998 A Study of Imperative Usage in Biblical Hebrew and English Studies in Language 22:2, pp. 391–446 | Article

This paper reports the results of a detailed text-based study of the use of Imperative constructions in Biblical Hebrew and English, and shows that the two languages differ significantly in this regard. The use of the English Imperative in the database is conditioned largely by social and… read more

Myhill, John 1997 Viewpoint, sequencing, and pronoun usage in Javanese short stories Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov, Guy, Gregory R., Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh (eds.), pp. 237–258 | Article

Myhill, John 1997 What is universal and what is language-specific in emotion words? Evidence from Biblical Hebrew Pragmatics & Cognition 5:1, pp. 79–129 | Article

This paper proposes a model for the analysis of emotions in which each emotion word in each language is made up of a universal component and a language-specific component; the universal component is drawn from a set of universal human emotions which underlie all emotion words in all languages, and… read more

Myhill, John 1997 Review of Engberg-Pedersen, Falster Jakobsen & Schack Rasmussen (1994): Function and expression in functional grammar Studies in Language 21:1, pp. 211–218 | Review

Myhill, John 1996 Can and future meaning Functions of Language 3:1, pp. 31–68 | Article

Can is traditionally seen as having three general meanings, ability, permission, and possibility (Leech 1987). However, as noted by Coates (1983), in certain cases the function of can is somewhat similar to that of will, e.g. offering to help by saying / can/will help, if you want y asking for help… read more

Myhill, John and Janet Zhiqun Xing 1996 Towards an Operational Definition of Discourse Contrast Studies in Language 20:2, pp. 303–360 | Article

Linguists have often invoked the concept of contrast in attempting to explain the use of certain constructions without explicitly defining this term. The present paper proposes an operational definition of contrast which can be applied to naturally occurring data so as to provide a more precise… read more

Myhill, John and Laura A. Smith 1995 The Discourse and Interactive Functions of Obligation Expressions Modality in Grammar and Discourse, Bybee, Joan L. and Suzanne Fleischman (eds.), pp. 239–292 | Article

Myhill, John 1993 Functional Type, Voice, and the Javanese DI-Form Studies in Language 17:2, pp. 371–409 | Article

This paper introduces the concept of functional type, a particular combination of functions which are realized in a single clause, and applies this concept to data on voice from Javanese and English, comparing the English passive and two Javanese constructions with passive-like structural and… read more

Myhill, John 1992 Word order and temporal sequencing Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility, Payne, Doris L. (ed.), pp. 265–278 | Article

Myhill, John 1991 Typological text analysis: tense and aspects in creoles and second languages Cross Currents in Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory, Huebner, Thom and Charles A. Ferguson (eds.), pp. 93–122 | Article

Estival, Dominique and John Myhill 1988 Formal and Functional aspects of the development from passive to ergative systems Passive and Voice, Shibatani, Masayoshi (ed.), pp. 441–524 | Article

Myhill, John 1988 Categoriality and Clustering Studies in Language 12:2, pp. 261–297 | Article

The essential meaning of a clause is typically conveyed by a small subset of the-morphemes in that clause, sometimes by only one or two; the information conveyed by the other morphemes is supplementary or already known. Clauses consist of one or more clusters; a cluster is made up of a nucleus (a… read more

Myhill, John and Junko Hibiya 1988 The discourse function af clause-chaining Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse, Haiman, John and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 361–398 | Article

Ash, Sharon and John Myhill 1986 Linguistic correlates of inter-ethnic contact Diversity and Diachrony, Sankoff, David, pp. 33–44 | Article

Myhill, John and Wendell A. Harris 1986 The use of the verbal -s Inflection in BEV Diversity and Diachrony, Sankoff, David, pp. 25–31 | Article