Today’s Innovations, Tomorrow’s Conventions: Usage-based approaches to incipient developments in English
Edited by David Lorenz and David Tizón-Couto
Special issue of Functions of Language 32:1 (2025) v, 161 pp.
David Tizón-Couto
List of John Benjamins publications in which David Tizón-Couto is involved.
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2025 Today’s innovations, tomorrow’s conventions: Usage-based approaches to incipient developments in English Today’s Innovations, Tomorrow’s Conventions: Usage-based approaches to incipient developments in English, Lorenz, David and David Tizón-Couto (eds.), pp. 3–15 | Introduction
2020 Chapter 4. Not just frequency, not just modality: Production and perception of English semi-modals Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions: Categories, co-text, and context, Hohaus, Pascal and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 79–108 | Chapter
We review reduction and contraction in modalizing expressions of the type V-to-Vinf from the perspective of production, perception and mental representation. A corpus study of spoken American English shows reduction/contraction as a continuous process which is subject to phonological and… read more
2018 Chapter 8. Complexity and genre distribution of left-dislocated strings after the fixation of SVO syntax Explorations in English Historical Syntax, Cuyckens, Hubert, Hendrik De Smet, Liesbet Heyvaert and Charlotte Maekelberghe (eds.), pp. 203–234 | Chapter
This paper investigates the diachronic development of strings that include both a left-dislocated constituent and a coreferring resumptive in the subsequent clause, thus resembling the reportedly speech-like and informal contemporary Left Dislocation construction. The data is analyzed according to… read more
2017 Exploring the Left Dislocation construction by means of multiple linear regression: Complexity and orality of Modern English left-dislocated NPs Current trends in analyzing syntactic variation, De Cuypere, Ludovic, Clara Vanderschueren and Gert de Sutter (eds.), pp. 301–327 | Article
This study deals with the complexity of left-dislocated [LDed] noun phrases in the Modern English period (1500–1914). The purpose is twofold: to estimate the effects of a number of theoretically relevant predictors on complexity, operationalized as word-length, and to explore whether shorter… read more
2016 Left-dislocated strings in Modern English epistolary prose: A comparison with contemporary spoken Left Dislocation Outside the Clause: Form and function of extra-clausal constituents, Kaltenböck, Gunther, Evelien Keizer and Arne Lohmann (eds.), pp. 203–240 | Article
This paper investigates the formal and functional features of strings that include both a left-dislocated constituent and a coreferring resumptive in the subsequent clause in Modern English letters and diaries. Such left-dislocated strings embody, to differing degrees, the reportedly speech-like… read more
2015 A corpus-based account of left-detached items in the recent history of English: Left Dislocation vs. Left Detached-sequences English Text Construction 8:1, pp. 21–64 | Article
This paper investigates sequences featuring a coreferential link between a left-detached constituent and a resumptive in the following main clause [‘LDet-sequences’]. Their syntactic, semantic and textual behaviour is investigated in historically recent texts (since Modern English) where such… read more