Rice University
List of John Benjamins publications for which someone affiliated with Rice University plays a role.
Impersonals and other Agent Defocusing Constructions in French
Michel Achard
[Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 50] 2015. ix, 372 pp. | monographSubjects Cognition and language | Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution
Edited by T. Givón & Masayoshi Shibatani
[Typological Studies in Language, 85] 2009. vi, 553 pp. | course bookSubjects Evolution of language | Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, evaluation, interaction
Edited by Robert Englebretson
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 164] 2007. viii, 323 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Tense and Aspect in Romance Languages: Theoretical and applied perspectives
Edited by Dalila Ayoun & M. Rafael Salaberry
[Studies in Bilingualism, 29] 2005. x, 318 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Language acquisition | Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax
Searching for Structure: The problem of complementation in colloquial Indonesian conversation
Robert Englebretson
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 13] 2003. x, 205 pp. | monographSubjects Austronesian languages | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax
The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation
Edited by Masayoshi Shibatani
[Typological Studies in Language, 48] 2002. xviii, 551 pp. | course bookSubjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Generative linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
The L2 Acquisition of Tense–Aspect Morphology
Edited by M. Rafael Salaberry & Yasuhiro Shirai
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 27] 2002. x, 489 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Language disorders & speech pathology | Theoretical linguistics
Functional Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition: Papers in honor of Sydney M. Lamb
Edited by David G. Lockwood, Peter H. Fries & James E. Copeland
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 163] 2000. xxxiv, 656 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics | History of linguisticsCognitive psychology
Reconstructing Grammar: Comparative Linguistics and Grammaticalization
Edited by Spike Gildea
[Typological Studies in Language, 43] 2000. xiv, 269 pp. | course bookSubjects Historical linguistics | Typology
Pathways of the Brain: The neurocognitive basis of language
Sydney M. Lamb
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 170] 1999. xii, 418 pp. | course bookSubjects Cognition and language | NeurolinguisticsCognitive psychology | Neuropsychology
2021 Presenting self and aligning as a team through narratives of victimhood among Kazakh-speaking village neighbors
Keywords self-presentation | teams | idealized self | alignment | narrative positioning | victimhood | Kazakh | neighbors | mealtime conversation | rural community
2020 Delivering the unconventional across languages: A Cognitive Grammar analysis of nonce words in “Jabberwocky” and its Ukrainian renditions
Keywords cognitive poetics | Cognitive Grammar | translation | lexical blending
2020 Constructing the digital self in the Global South
Keywords construction of the self | digital media | Global South | sexuality | gender identity | queer | masculinity | Chile | Senegal | Trinidad and Tobago
2020 Implementing the concept of ‘pedagogic mediation’ with the use of language corpora for the teaching of Portuguese as an L2 or L3
In: Linguistic approaches to portuguese as an additional language [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 24] pp. 167–190
Keywords language corpus | deductive | inductive | guided induction | Portuguese | C-ORAL BRASIL
2018 Corpus-based instruction: Teaching discourse-linking jiu (就) in storytelling
Keywords corpus | Chinese |
jiu
| second language teaching | 语料库 | 汉语 | 就 | 外语教学
2018 Teasing as audience engagement: Setting up the unexpected during television comedy monologues
In: The dynamics of interactional humor: Creating and negotiating humor in everyday encounters [Topics in Humor Research, 7] pp. 127–152
Keywords teasing | stand-up comedy | comedy audiences | functions of teasing | audience engagement | transposition | miming
2018 Recovering alcoholic: Competing construals of a socially constructed identity category
Keywords Corpus linguistics | Membership Categorization Device | competing motivations | alcoholism | addiction | recovery | identity
2015 Deictic expressions in Darma (Almora)
Keywords typology | deictics | demonstratives | Almora group
2014 Sexual adjudications and queer transpositions
Keywords asylum | law | LGBTQ | immigration | sexuality | discourse | subjectivity | adjudication | epistemics
2013 An experimental study comparing linguistic phylogenetic reconstruction methods
Keywords maximum parsimony | UPGMA | neighbor-joining | Indo-European | maximum compatibility | phylogenetics | simulation. | glottochronology | lexicostatistics
2009 Folk Pragmatics
2008 A quantitative approach to the development of complex predicates: The case of Swedish Pseudo-Coordination with sitta “sit”
Keywords Germanic | Swedish | grammaticalization | corpus linguistics | gradual change | pseudo-coordination | complex predicates
2008 Chained metonymies in lexicon and grammar: A cross-linguistic perspective on body-part terms
In: Aspects of Meaning Construction pp. 77–98
Keywords body part terms | chained metonymies | cross-linguistic comparisons | grammaticalization | interaction of metaphor and metonymy | lexicalization | metaphor | metonymy
2008 Constraints on inferential constructions
In: Aspects of Meaning Construction pp. 207–224
Keywords cleft construction | corpus analysis | discourse | discourse analysis | focus | inferential construction | information structure | pragmatic inference | pragmatics | presupposition
2006 Causativity reduction in Singaporean English
Keywords causativity | conventionalised scenarios | metonymy | resultative constructions | Singaporean English