Barbara Sonnenhauser
List of John Benjamins publications in which Barbara Sonnenhauser is involved.
Articles
2026 Ways of knowing in Slavic: Towards a comparative history of ideas Languages in Contrast 26:1, pp. 55–84 | Article
Expanding on Carl Buck’s insight that the history of ideas is closely tied to the history of the words expressing them, this paper traces the interaction of language, culture and cognition on the example of the concept know and its lexification in Slavic, based on a sample of diachronically and… read more
2022 Degrees of non-standardness: Feature-based analysis of variation in a Torlak dialect corpus International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:2, pp. 220–247 | Article
A corpus-based method for assessing a range of dialect-standard variation is presented for identifying samples exhibiting the highest prevalence of dialect features. This method provides insight into areal and inter-speaker variation and allows the extraction of maximally non-standard… read more
2016 Chapter 2. Presenting narration: The perspectival construction of narrativity in Bulgarian and Macedonian Perspectives on Narrativity and Narrative Perspectivization, Igl, Natalia and Sonja Zeman (eds.), pp. 43–62 | Article
This chapter describes narrativity as a fundamentally perspectival phenomenon, with perspectivity resulting from the interaction of viewpoint-introducing linguistic means. Their perspectival potential gives rise to a separate textual layer from which narration is presented. Along these lines,… read more