Birgit Hellwig
List of John Benjamins publications in which Birgit Hellwig is involved.
Titles
Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Anna Margetts, Sonja Riesberg and Birgit Hellwig
This volume investigates the linguistic expression of directed caused accompanied motion events, including verbal concepts like BRING and TAKE. Contributions explore how speakers conceptualise and describe these events across areally, genetically, and typologically diverse languages of the… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 134] 2022. viii, 437 pp.
2026 Chapter 1. Nikolaus Himmelmann and the documentarist turn The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations, Riesberg, Sonja, Uta Reinöhl and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Chapter
2026 Differential argument marking and discourse prominence Studies in Language: Online-First Articles | Article
Many languages exhibit some form of differential argument marking (DAM), where the same generalized argument role can be marked differently. Approaches explaining these phenomena have in common that they assume some form of ranking among linguistic elements of the same kind. While previous… read more
2026 Chapter 14. Transcription practices and (the documentation of) metalinguistic knowledge The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations, Riesberg, Sonja, Uta Reinöhl and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 343–371 | Chapter
Transcripts are an integral part of documentary corpora, and transcription, conducted in close cooperation with a language’s speakers/signers, is central to fieldwork activities. Yet, transcription practices — involving decisions that reduce the complexity of an audio/video signal into a written… read more
2024 Chapter 9. Caused accompanied motion in a direction: bring and take in Katla (Niger-Congo, Sudan) Predication in African Languages, Essegbey, James and Enoch O. Aboh (eds.), pp. 238–262 | Chapter
The concepts bring and take belong to a semantic domain that can be characterized as events of caused accompanied motion in a direction. This contribution investigates the expression of this domain in Katla (Niger-Congo; Sudan) within a corpus of naturalistic data, shows that Katla employs… read more
2022 Expressing events of directed caused accompanied motion in Qaqet Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective, Margetts, Anna, Sonja Riesberg and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 341–368 | Chapter
This chapter investigates the expression of directed caused accompanied motion (directed CAM) events in Qaqet, a Baining language of Papua New Guinea. Qaqet employs a complex CAM expression that consists of an intransitive motion verb plus valency-changing elements, and the chapter describes… read more
2022 Events of caused accompanied motion in Qaqet and Dëne Sųłıné child language corpora Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective, Margetts, Anna, Sonja Riesberg and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 397–434 | Chapter
This chapter investigates the expression of directed caused accompanied motion (directed CAM) events in child language corpora of Qaqet (a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea) and Dëne Sųłıné (a Dene language of Canada). Both languages employ complex CAM expressions. The chapter briefly… read more
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
2019 Grammatical relations in Katla Argument Selectors: A new perspective on grammatical relations, Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena and Balthasar Bickel (eds.), pp. 511–531 | Chapter
This chapter describes grammatical relations in Katla, a Niger-Congo language of Sudan. Katla exhibits a close match between semantic and syntactic valency, and monovalent, bivalent and trivalent verbs can be distinguished by their ability to occur with one, two or three unmarked arguments… read more
2018 Reference tracking in Tima and its interplay with split ergative marking Studies in Language 42:4, pp. 970–993 | Article
Tima, a Niger-Congo language of the Sudan, shows signs of split ergativity. If its constituent order deviates from the basic AVO order to OVA order, the postverbal agent is formally marked, unlike preverbal agents. A direct object, regardless of its position relative to the verb, is never marked. read more
2017 Chapter 11. Emotions in Goemai (Nigeria): Perspectives from a documentary corpus Consensus and Dissent: Negotiating Emotion in the Public Space, Storch, Anne (ed.), pp. 213–228 | Chapter
A central goal of language documentation is to create corpora that are multipurpose and can be used to investigate topics that they were not intended for. Such corpora have started to increasingly become available over the past few years. This contribution takes a language documentation perspective… read more
2010 Meaning and translation in linguistic fieldwork Studies in Language 34:4, pp. 802–831 | Article
This paper is set within the context of semantic typology, focusing on the collection of semantic data during fieldwork on under-described languages. The study explores central issues of meaning and translation through the example of the investigation of the lexical meaning and part of speech of… read more