University of Freiburg
List of John Benjamins publications for which someone affiliated with University of Freiburg plays a role.
Visual Linguistics with R: A practical introduction to quantitative Interactional Linguistics
Christoph Rühlemann
2020. | text bookSubjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
World Englishes on the Web: The Nigerian diaspora in the USA
Edited by Mirka Honkanen
[Varieties of English Around the World, G63] 2020. | monographSubjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Language Variation and Contact-Induced Change: Spanish across space and time
Edited by Jeremy King & Sandro Sessarego
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 340] 2018. | edited volumeSubjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Stance, resonance and the power of engagement: Special issue of Functions of Language 24:1 (2017)
Edited by Bracha Nir & Elisabeth Zima
[Functions of Language, 24:1] 2017. | special issueSubjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Child Language Variation: Sociolinguistic and formal approaches. Special issue of Linguistic Variation 16:1 (2016)
Edited by Véronique Lacoste & Lisa Green
[Linguistic Variation, 16:1] 2016. | special issueSubjects Generative linguistics | Typology
Jamaican Creole Goes Web: Sociolinguistic styling and authenticity in a digital 'Yaad'
Andrea Moll
[Creole Language Library, 49] 2015. viii, 294 pp. | monographSubjects Corpus linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Auxiliary Selection in Spanish: Gradience, gradualness, and conservation
Malte Rosemeyer
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 155] 2014. xix, 313 pp. | monographSubjects Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Language Variation - European Perspectives IV: Selected papers from the Sixth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 6), Freiburg, June 2011
Edited by Peter Auer, Javier Caro Reina & Göz Kaufmann
[Studies in Language Variation, 14] 2013. xiv, 296 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Phonological Variation in Rural Jamaican Schools
Véronique Lacoste
[Creole Language Library, 42] 2012. xiv, 293 pp. | monographSubjects Creole studies | English linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Phonology | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The Dialect Laboratory: Dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change
Edited by Gunther De Vogelaer & Guido Seiler
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 128] 2012. vi, 297 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Prosody in Interaction
Edited by Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, Elisabeth Reber & Margret Selting
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 23] 2010. xxi, 406 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Discourse studies | Phonology | Pragmatics
Transitivity: Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing
Edited by Patrick Brandt & Marco García García
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 166] 2010. vii, 308 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Contemporary Indian English: Variation and change
Andreas Sedlatschek
[Varieties of English Around the World, G38] 2009. xix, 363 pp. | monographSubjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Focus and Background in Romance Languages
Edited by Andreas Dufter & Daniel Jacob
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 112] 2009. vii, 362 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Information Highlighting in Advanced Learner English: The syntax–pragmatics interface in second language acquisition
Marcus Callies
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 186] 2009. xviii, 293 pp. | monographSubjects English linguistics | Language acquisition | Pragmatics | Syntax
Germanic Future Constructions: A usage-based approach to language change
Martin Hilpert
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 7] 2008. ix, 205 pp. | monographSubjects Cognitive linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Codeswitching on the Web: English and Jamaican Creole in e-mail communication
Lars Hinrichs
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 147] 2006. x, 302 pp. | monographSubjects Creole studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Multilingualism | Pragmatics
Corpus Approaches to Grammaticalization in English
Edited by Hans Lindquist & Christian Mair
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 13] 2004. xiv, 265 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
New Zealand English Grammar – Fact or Fiction?: A corpus-based study in morphosyntactic variation
Marianne Hundt
[Varieties of English Around the World, G23] 1998. xvi, 212 pp. | monographSubjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Syntax
Comparative-Historical Linguistics: Indo-European and Finno-Ugric. Papers in honor of Oswald Szemerényi III
Edited by Bela Brogyanyi & Reiner Lipp
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 97] 1993. xii, 566 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Comparative linguistics | Historical linguistics | Uralic languages
Historical Philology: Greek, Latin, and Romance. Papers in honor of Oswald Szemerényi II
Edited by Bela Brogyanyi & Reiner Lipp
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 87] 1992. xii, 386 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Classical linguistics | Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics
Prehistory, History and Historiography of Language, Speech, and Linguistic Theory: Papers in honor of Oswald Szemerényi I
Edited by Bela Brogyanyi
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 64] 1992. x, 414 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Historical linguistics | History of linguistics
2024 Noticing and assessing nature: A multimodal investigation of the format “perception imperative + exclamative” based on mobile eye-tracking
data
In: New Perspectives in Interactional Linguistic Research [Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 36] pp. 245–275
Keywords noticing | assessment | perception imperative | exclamative | German |
walking and talking
| eye-tracking | joint attention | intersubjective experience of nature | mobile interactions
2024 Coronalisation in the German multi-ethnolect: Evidence for regional differentiation?
In: The Continuity of Linguistic Change: Selected papers in honour of Juan Andrés Villena-Ponsoda [Studies in Language Variation, 31] pp. 79–99
Keywords (German) multi-ethnolects | coronalisation | dorsal assimilation in German | regional differentiation in multi-ethnolects
2024 Colloquialisation: Twenty-five years on
Keywords colloquialisation | democratisation | informalisation | discourse change | grammatical change | sociocultural change
2023 What can collaboratively produced lists tell us about
constructions?1
: A multimodal analysis of co-constructed enumeration practices
in spoken Spanish
Keywords construction grammar | list construction | co-construction | shared knowledge | multimodal practice | interactional linguistics | enumeration | sedimentation | temporal unfolding
2023 Empire, migration and race in the British parliament (1803–2005)
In: Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 111] pp. 118–141
Keywords British Empire | migration | race | discourse | semantic change
2023 Are referent introductions sensitive to forward planning in discourse?: Evidence from Multi-CAST
In: Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective [Studies in Language Companion Series, 227] pp. 231–268
Keywords reference processing | grammatical relations | discourse structure | thematic prominence | discourse topic | referent introduction | corpus-based typology
2023 Comparing zero and referential choice in eight languages with a focus on Mandarin Chinese
Keywords Mandarin Chinese | zero arguments | corpus analysis | usage-based approach | referential choice
2023 Understanding, collecting, and presenting data in New Englishes research: Insights from ethnographic fieldwork in an Old Order Mennonite community
In: New Englishes, New Methods: Methodological considerations [Varieties of English Around the World, G68] pp. 222–242
Keywords ethnographic fieldwork | the sociolinguistic interview | New Englishes communities | Pennsylvania German English | Pennsylvania German | Old Order Mennonites | language contact | data presentation | researcher positionality
2023 Verbal past inflection in Nigerian English: A case for sociolinguistic compound vision
In: New Englishes, New Methods: Methodological considerations [Varieties of English Around the World, G68] pp. 16–41
Keywords Nigerian English | International Corpus of English | past inflection | sociolinguistics | mixed-effects regression | morphology
2022 West African Pidgin as a tool for socio-economic development
Keywords Pidgin | language planning | language policy | cross-border markets | economic development
2022 How alternatives are created: Specialized background knowledge affects the interpretation of
clefts in discourse
In:
When Data Challenges Theory: Non-prototypical, unexpected and paradoxical evidence in the field of
information structure [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 273] pp. 115–146
Keywords information structure | clefting | focus | German | background knowledge
2022 When data challenges theory: The analysis of information structure and its paradoxes*
In:
When Data Challenges Theory: Non-prototypical, unexpected and paradoxical evidence in the field of
information structure [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 273] pp. 1–36
Keywords information structure | non-canonical syntax | prosody | discourse | inferential pragmatics
2022 Grammar and variation in the classroom: A roadmap for a qualified solution to grammatical cases of doubt in contemporary German
Keywords variation | standard variety | norm | social actors | grammaticality judgments | grammatical cases of doubt | teaching German grammar
2022 Anteriors and resultatives in Old Spanish
In: From Verbal Periphrases to Complex Predicates [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 31] pp. 149–170
Keywords auxiliary selection | tense | aspect | Spanish | perfect | resultative | grammaticalization
2022 Nigerian English as a Lingua Franca: Intelligibility and attitudes in German-speaking contexts
Keywords Nigerian English | English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) | Germany | accent | listening comprehension | language attitudes | accent discrimination
2021 Functional asymmetry and left-to-right movement: Speaking of peripheries
Keywords discourse marker | periphery | functional asymmetry | (inter)subjectivity
2022 The effects of reading narrative fiction on social and moral cognition: Two experiments following a multi-method approach
Keywords fiction | narrative | social cognition | empathy | morality
2021 When it’s “now or never”: Multimodal practices for managing opportunities to initiate other-repair in collaborative storytelling
Keywords conversation analysis | collaborative storytelling | other-repair | progressivity | multimodality
2021 On agency and affiliation in second assessments: German and Swedish opinion verbs in
talk-in-interaction
In: Intersubjectivity in Action: Studies in language and social interaction [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 326] p. 81
Keywords second assessments | agency | affiliation | disagreement | opinion verbs
2021 Gaze selects the next speaker in answers to questions pronominally addressed to more than one co-participant
Keywords gaze | turn-taking | current speaker selects next | turn allocation | pronouns of address | eye-tracking
2021 The functions of emotion-referencing names in Ibibio
Keywords emotion | personal names | personality | psychology of identity | selfhood | linguistic ideology | Ibibio
2020 Investigating the effects of L1 proficiency
and CLI: RT data from speakers of heritage L1
Turkish with dominant German L2
Keywords heritage bilingualism | cross linguistic influence | L1 proficiency | reaction time study
2020 Casting light on the Spanish creole debate: A legal perspective
In: Hispanic Linguistics: Current Issues and New Directions [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 26] pp. 327–342
Keywords Spanish creole debate | Legal Hypothesis of Creole Genesis | Chocó Spanish
2020 Chocó Spanish: An Afro-Hispanic language on the Spanish frontier
In: Hispanic Contact Linguistics: Theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 22] pp. 43–60
Keywords Chocó Spanish | Decreolization Hypothesis | Afrogenesis Hypothesis | Spanish Creole debate | black slavery
2020 Why is it so hard to establish gestalt ideas within
linguistics?
In: History of Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, (ICHoLS 14), Paris, 28 August – 1 September [Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 127] pp. 65–78
Keywords gestalt formalism | gestalt laws | gestalt linguistics | gestalt psychology | perception | phenomenology | phonology | structuralism | wholeness
2020 Turn structure and inserts
Keywords interjection | contextualization cue | textual colligation | speech planning | action ascription
2019
Kaleidographic
: A data visualization tool
Keywords data visualization |
Kaleidographic
| multimodality | software | text analysis tools
2019 Complementing corpus analysis with web-based experimentation in research on World Englishes
Keywords converging evidence | web-based experimentation | Asian Englishes | conversion
2018 Innovative conversions in South-East Asian Englishes: Reassessing ESL status
In: Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes [Benjamins Current Topics, 98] pp. 147–170
Keywords conversion | corpus analysis | English as a second language (ESL) | paradigm gap | World Englishes
2018 The fate of linguistic innovations: Jersey English and French learner English compared
In: Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes [Benjamins Current Topics, 98] pp. 171–191
Keywords error | French Learner English | Jersey English | linguistic innovation | transfer
2018 The replacement of diminutive suffixes in the New High German period: A time series analysis in word formation
Keywords diminutive | word formation | morphology | language history | language variation | language change | corpus linguistics
2018 Processing backward translation at intermediate L2 proficiency: The role of lexical, conceptual, and phonological links
Keywords second language processing | translation recognition paradigm | lexical | conceptual | phonological
2018 Singaporean internet chit chat compared to informal spoken language*
: Linguistic variation and indexicality in a language contact situation
Keywords Singlish | computer-mediated communication | sociolinguistic approach
2018 Stabilising domains of English-language use in Germany: Global English in a non-colonial languagescape
In: Modeling World Englishes: Assessing the interplay of emancipation and globalization of ESL varieties [Varieties of English Around the World, G61] pp. 45–76
Keywords African Englishes | migration | multilingualism | diaspora | Germany
2017 Chocó Spanish double negation and the genesis of the Afro-Hispanic dialects of the Americas
Keywords Chocó Spanish | double negation | Jespersen Cycle | creole genesis
2018 Using eye tracking to investigate what bilinguals notice about
linguistic landscape images: A preliminary study
Keywords linguistic landscape | eye tracking | bilingualism | visual attention | Montréal
2017 Association with explanation-conveying constructions predicts verbs’ implicit causality biases
Keywords implicit causality | constructions | collostruction strength | semantic structure
2018 Chocó Spanish and the Missing Spanish Creole debate: Sociohistorical and linguistic considerations to solve the puzzle
Keywords Chocó Spanish | Spanish Creoles | Legal Hypothesis of Creole Genesis
2017 The legal hypothesis of creole genesis: Presence/absence of legal personality, a new element to the Spanish creole debate
Keywords Spanish Creoles | Legal Personality | Legal Hypothesis of Creole Genesis
2018 The road to auxiliariness revisited: The grammaticalization of finish anteriors in Spanish
Keywords pragmatics | Spanish | auxiliary verb constructions | grammaticalization | perfect | diachronic corpus linguistics | overtification | informativity
2016 How do evaluative derivational meanings arise? A bit of Geforsche and Forscherei
Keywords derivation | diachronic corpus study | German | nominalisation | pejoration | word formation
2016 A lectometric analysis of aggregated lexical variation in written Standard English with Semantic Vector Space models
Keywords lexis | Standard English | Semantic Vector Space models | lectometry | aggregation
2016 Innovative conversions in South-East Asian Englishes: Reassessing ESL status
Keywords conversion | corpus analysis | World Englishes | paradigm gap | English as a second language (ESL)
2016 The fate of linguistic innovations: Jersey English and French learner English compared
Keywords Jersey English | error | linguistic innovation | transfer | French learner English
2014 Imperfectives in Singapore’s Indian community
Keywords ethnic variation | Indian diaspora in Singapore | Singapore English | sociolinguistics of Indian Singaporeans | Tamil
2014 Rethinking constructional polysemy: The case of the English conative construction
In: Corpus Methods for Semantics: Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 43] pp. 61–85
Keywords collexeme analysis | semantic classes | verb-class-specific constructions
2014 Measuring analyticity and syntheticity in creoles
Keywords Tok Pisin | Hawai‘i Creole | corpus | synthetic | analytic | creole | frequency
2013 Dative and genitive variability in Late Modern English: Exploring cross-constructional variation and change
Keywords Late Modern English | corpus linguistics | cross-constructional analysis | animacy | dative alternation | genitive alternation | probabilistic grammar
2013 The World System of Englishes: Accounting for the transnational importance of mobile and mediated vernaculars
Keywords computer-mediated communication | sociolinguistics of globalisation | ethnolinguistic repertoire | Nigerian Pidgin
2012 Animacy in early New Zealand English
Keywords regional variation | genitive alternation | American and New Zealand English | British | animacy | progressive
2012 Citizenship, participation, and CMD: The case of Nigeria
Keywords Nigeria | Nolitics | corruption | political participation | blogs | new media | discourse pragmatics | discussion forum
2011 Dynamic visualizations of language change: Motion charts on the basis of bivariate and multivariate data from diachronic corpora
Keywords COHA | diachronic corpora | bivariate data | multi-dimensional scaling | multivariate data | motion charts
2010 Trans-duction
2009 Now he thinks he's listening to rock music: Identity construction among German teenage girls
Keywords community of practice | ethnographic conversation analysis | gender studies | identity research | membership categorization | positioning
2009 ‘The English we speaking’: Morphological and syntactic variation in educated Jamaican speech
Keywords Jamaican English | International Corpus of English | conversations | creole continuum | morphology and syntax | stylistic variation
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
2007 Unstressed periphrastic do — from Southwest England to Newfoundland?
Keywords periphrastic do | Southwest England | varieties | Newfoundland | West Country | Ireland | Newfoundland (Vernacular) English | habitual | Irish English
2005 Nigerian English prosody
Keywords Yoruba | prosody | tone | intonation | rhythm | syllabification | phrasal stress | Nigerian English | Igbo | Hausa
2006 Luxembourgish
In: Germanic Standardizations: Past to Present [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 18] pp. 303–329
2000 "Agile" and "Uptight" Genres: The Corpus-based Approach to Language Change in Progress
Keywords Language Change (grammatical and stylistic) | Text-Linguistics | Present-Day British and American English