Richard Waltereit
List of John Benjamins publications in which Richard Waltereit is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0035-3906 | E‑ISSN 1600‑0811
Titles
New Directions in Grammaticalization Research
Edited by Andrew D.M. Smith, Graeme Trousdale and Richard Waltereit
The articles in this volume examine a number of critical issues in grammaticalization studies, including the relationship between grammaticalization and pragmaticalization, subjectification and intersubjectification, and grammaticalization and language contact. The contributions consider data from… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 166] 2015. xv, 302 pp.
Reflexive Marking in the History of French
Richard Waltereit
While French reflexive clitics have been widely studied, other forms of expressing co-reference within the clause have not received much attention. This monograph offers a diachronic study of the wider system of clause-mate co-reference in French, including the stressed pronouns, their suffixed… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 127] 2012. x, 224 pp.
The Paradox of Grammatical Change: Perspectives from Romance
Edited by Ulrich Detges and Richard Waltereit
Recent years have seen intense debates between formal (generative) and functional linguists, particularly with respect to the relation between grammar and usage. This debate is directly relevant to diachronic linguistics, where one and the same phenomenon of language change can be explained from… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 293] 2008. vi, 252 pp.
2020 Chapter 7. Is the information-structural contribution of modal particles in the syntax, in discourse structure, or in both? Information-Structural Perspectives on Discourse Particles, Modicom, Pierre-Yves and Olivier Duplâtre (eds.), pp. 177–192 | Chapter
Traditionally, information structure belongs to sentence structure, whereas discourse particles operate at the level of discourse structure (Hansen 1998a). Modal particles, by contrast, belong to sentence structure, too. They are also widely recognized as making a significant contribution to… read more
2020 Parallels between the negative cycle and the rise of interrogative marking in French The Role of Pragmatics in Cyclic Language Change, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt (ed.), pp. 263–288 | Article
In this paper, I discuss a type of construction that is rarely if ever mentioned in connection with diachronic cyclicity: wh-interrogative marking. In particular, I shall compare sentential negation with wh-marking in French and point to interesting commonalities between the prototypical… read more
2015 Introduction New Directions in Grammaticalization Research, Smith, Andrew D.M., Graeme Trousdale and Richard Waltereit (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article
2014 Critique de Wehr & Nicolosi (2012): Pragmatique historique et syntaxe. Historische Pragmatik und Syntax. Actes de la section du même nom du XXXIe Romanistentag allemand. Akten der gleichnamigen Sektion des XXXI. Deutschen Romanistentags (Bonn, 27.9.-1.10.2009) Revue Romane 49:1, pp. 167–170 | Review
2012 On the origins of grammaticalization and other types of language change in discourse strategies Grammaticalization and Language Change: New reflections, Davidse, Kristin, Tine Breban, Lieselotte Brems and Tanja Mortelmans (eds.), pp. 51–72 | Article
In this contribution it is argued that grammaticalization and related types of change arise as a side-effect of strategic, rhetorical language use by speakers. The outcome of these processes is determined by the strategy for which the underlying lexical items are used, rather than by the lexical… read more
2009 Introduction Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French, Beeching, Kate, Nigel Armstrong and Françoise Gadet (eds.), pp. 195–199 | Miscellaneous
2008 Introduction The Paradox of Grammatical Change: Perspectives from Romance, Detges, Ulrich and Richard Waltereit (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Miscellaneous
2008 Syntactic change from within and from without syntax: A usage-based analysis The Paradox of Grammatical Change: Perspectives from Romance, Detges, Ulrich and Richard Waltereit (eds.), pp. 13–30 | Article
This article presents a critical discussion of Inertia Theory (Longobardi 2001; 2003), according to which syntactic change never originates in syntax itself. We argue that syntactic change originates in language usage, which includes the possibility that it may be triggered by genuinely syntactic… read more
2001 Book notice: “Regards sur l’aspect” by Borillo, Andrée / Vetters, Carl / Vuillaume, Marcel (eds.) Studies in Language 25:3, pp. 705–707 | Miscellaneous
2000 What it means to deceive yourself: The semantic relation of French reflexive verbs and their corresponding transitive verbs Reflexives: Forms and functions, Frajzyngier, Zygmunt and Traci Walker (eds.), pp. 257–278 | Article
1999 Grammatical Constraints on Metonymy: On the Role of the Direct Object Metonymy in Language and Thought, Panther, Klaus-Uwe and Günter Radden (eds.), pp. 233–254 | Article