Melanie Schippling

List of John Benjamins publications in which Melanie Schippling is involved.

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Speaking of Writing Romani: Language attitudes, text editing, and variability

Melanie Schippling

As a traditionally oral language spoken in areas with a literacy-based culture, Romani provides a unique case for the study of orality and literacy. In a mixed-methods approach, this work investigates attitudes of Romani speakers towards the modalities, their communicative functions and use, and… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 56] 2026. xix, 432 pp.

Articles

Schippling, Melanie 2026 Chapter 11. Reflections on literacy in language documentation The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations, Riesberg, Sonja, Uta Reinöhl and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 263–286 | Chapter

This chapter is concerned with improving our understanding of literacies through language documentation. It addresses different types of writing practices and the use of documentation corpora in this regard. While writing is often taken for granted for languages with a tradition in this… read more

Hellwig, Birgit, Anna Margetts, Sonja Riesberg and Melanie Schippling 2022 Bringing and taking: A cross-linguistic perspective on caused accompanied motion events Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective, Margetts, Anna, Sonja Riesberg and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 1–41 | Chapter

This chapter proposes a typology of expressions of directed caused accompanied motion (directed CAM): it introduces and defines this semantic domain, presents the corpus-based methodology used by the authors of this volume, and gives an overview of the results. It shows that directed CAM… read more