Amel Kallel
List of John Benjamins publications in which Amel Kallel is involved.
Articles
2020 The empirical reality of bridging contexts: Strong polarity contexts as the transition between NPIs and n-words Journal of Historical Linguistics 10:3, pp. 427–451 | Article
The purpose of this paper is to provide quantitative substantiation for the role of bridging context in grammatical change. Bridging contexts are assumed to be environments compatible with the new function that an item is acquiring. The evolving item would therefore be predicted to occur in… read more
2014 Evidence from a correspondence corpus for diachronic change in French indefinites 1450–1715 The Diachrony of Negation, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Jacqueline Visconti (eds.), pp. 213–234 | Article
In this study the changing distribution of French indefinite forms in different clause types is studied diachronically using a corpus of personal letters written between the Middle French and Classical French periods. The data is interpreted using Haspelmath’s 1997 semantic map of indefinites, and… read more