Ioannis Veloudis
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ioannis Veloudis is involved.
Articles
2025 On the rise of contrastive discourse markers: Evidence from English and Greek Pragmatics & Cognition 32:2, pp. 261–286 | Article
In this paper, I consider contrastive discourse markers (CDMs) in English and Greek in terms of their etymological origins. In particular, I argue that English and Greek CDMs draw on sources inspired by the same basic cognitive categories: namely, PLACE, QUANTITY, and MANNER; and that these… read more
2017 Chapter 10. Metaphor and metonymy as fanciful “asymmetry” builders Studies in Figurative Thought and Language, Athanasiadou, Angeliki (ed.), pp. 253–271 | Chapter
Langacker (1987: 469) remarks that “the asymmetry of an ‘event’ detected against an established background is fundamental to cognitive organization and not at all peculiar to language. It recalls not only figure/ground alignment […] but also the more general point that novel… read more
1994 The pragmatic category ‘perfect’ Themes in Greek Linguistics: Papers from the First International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Reading, September 1993, Philippaki-Warburton, Irene, Katerina Nicolaidis and Maria Sifianou (eds.), pp. 129–136 | Article