Joan L. Bybee
List of John Benjamins publications in which Joan L. Bybee is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1385-7916
Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Essays in honor of Sandra A. Thompson
Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Michael Noonan
The papers in this volume in honor of Sandra Annear Thompson deal with complex sentences, an important topic in Thompson’s career. The focus of the contributions is on the ways in which the grammatical properties of complex sentences are shaped by the communicative context in which they are… read more[Not in series, 110] 2002. viii, 363 pp.
Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure
Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Paul J. Hopper
A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as grammar. This book addresses the two issues that are basic to this claim: first, the question of what types of elements are frequently used… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 45] 2001. vii, 492 pp.
Essays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to T. Givón
Edited by Joan L. Bybee, John Haiman † and Sandra A. Thompson
In their subject matter and in their theoretical orientation all the papers in this volume reflect the powerful influence of T. Givón. Most of them deal with questions of morphosyntactic typology, pragmatics, and grammaticalization theory. Many of them are directly based on extensive fieldwork on… read more[Not in series, 82] 1997. vi, 480 pp.
Modality in Grammar and Discourse
Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Suzanne Fleischman
This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers that look into the expression of modality in the grammars of natural languages, with an emphasis on its manifestations in naturally occurring discourse. Though the individual contributions reflect a diversity of languages, of synchronic and… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 32] 1995. viii, 575 pp.
Morphology: A Study of the Relation between Meaning and Form
Joan L. Bybee
This is a textbook right in the thick of current interest in morphology. It proposes principles to predict properties previously considered arbitrary and brings together the psychological and the diachronic to explain the recurrent properties of morphological systems in terms of the processes that… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 9] 1985. xii, 235 pp.
2025 Joint innovation: An alternative to the initiation-diffusion and speaker-listener dichotomies in language change Journal of Historical Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
In this contribution we examine current views of the relationship between innovation on the one hand, and diffusion of a change through a community on the other. We also note in the recent literature much discussion of the role of the listener vs. the role of the speaker in innovation and spread. read more
2024 Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40 Diachronica 41:5, pp. 719–731 | Editorial
2014 Analytic and holistic processing
in the development of constructions Language in Interaction: Studies in honor of Eve V. Clark, Arnon, Inbal, Marisa Casillas, Chigusa Kurumada and Bruno Estigarribia (eds.), pp. 303–314 | Article
A corpus analysis over several decades of American English shows the development of the minor construction from an idiom: not have two Xs to rub together. The sequence of developments indicates that the loss of compositionality and analyzability of the construction is heavily influenced by context… read more
2012 Patterns of lexical diffusion and articulatory motivation for sound change The Initiation of Sound Change: Perception, production, and social factors, Solé, Maria-Josep and Daniel Recasens (eds.), pp. 211–234 | Article
Patterns of lexical diffusion can serve as important diagnostics for the source of sound change. The most common lexical diffusion pattern for sound change is from high frequency words to low frequency words. This pattern is consistent with an articulatory source for change, as compared to a… read more
2009 The role of prefabs in grammaticization: How the particular and the general interact in language change Formulaic Language: Volume 1. Distribution and historical change, Corrigan, Roberta, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. 187–218 | Chapter
Studies of grammaticization often reveal skewed distributions of lexical items in grammaticizing constructions, suggesting the presence of prefabs using these constructions. We examine here the role of prefabs in the grammaticization of can in English and the progressive estar ‘be (located)’ +… read more
2002 Main clauses are innovative, subordinate clauses are conservative: Consequences for the nature of constructions Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Essays in honor of Sandra A. Thompson, Bybee, Joan L. and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. 1–17 | Article
2002 4. Sequentiality as the basis of constituent structure The Evolution of Language out of Pre-language, Givón, T. and Bertram F. Malle (eds.), pp. 109–134 | Chapter
2002 Introduction Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Essays in honor of Sandra A. Thompson, Bybee, Joan L. and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. vii–viii | Miscellaneous
2001 Frequency effects on French liaison Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure, Bybee, Joan L. and Paul J. Hopper (eds.), pp. 337–360 | Article
2001 Introduction to frequency and the emergence of linguistic structure Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure, Bybee, Joan L. and Paul J. Hopper (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article
1999 Usage-based Phonology [Functionalist phonology position paper] Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume I: General papers, Darnell, Michael, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. 211–242 | Article
1998 A Functionalist Approach to Grammar and Its Evolution Evolution of Communication 2:2, pp. 249–278 | Article
1998 Prosody and Segmental Effect Some Paths of Evolution for Word Stress Studies in Language 22:2, pp. 267–314 | Article
This study reports on a significant negative association found in a cross-linguistic sample between the degree of predictability of word stress from a word boundary and the extent to which stress has segmental effects. In other words, in a given language the less predictable stress is from the… read more
1997 Semantic Aspects of Morphological Typology Essays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to T. Givón, Bybee, Joan L., John Haiman † and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 25–38 | Article
1996 Productivity, Regularity and Fusion: How language use affects the lexicon Trubetzkoy's Orphan: Proceedings of the Montréal Roundtable on “Morphonology: contemporary responses” (Montréal, October 1994), Singh, Rajendra (ed.), pp. 247–269 | Article
1996 A Reply to Goad Trubetzkoy's Orphan: Proceedings of the Montréal Roundtable on “Morphonology: contemporary responses” (Montréal, October 1994), Singh, Rajendra (ed.), pp. 280–283 | Article
1995 The Semantic Development of Past Tense Modals in English Modality in Grammar and Discourse, Bybee, Joan L. and Suzanne Fleischman (eds.), pp. 503–518 | Article
1994
The Grammaticization of Zero
Asymmetries in tense and aspect systems
Perspectives on Grammaticalization, Pagliuca, William (ed.), pp. 235–254 | Article
1991 Natural morphology: the organization of paradigms and language acquisition Cross Currents in Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory, Huebner, Thom and Charles A. Ferguson (eds.), pp. 67–92 | Article
1991 Back to the future Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume II. Types of grammatical markers, Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Bernd Heine (eds.), pp. 17–58 | Article
1990 On the asymmetries in the affixation of grammatical material Studies in Typology and Diachrony: Papers presented to Joseph H. Greenberg on his 75th birthday, Croft, William A., Suzanne Kemmer and Keith Denning (eds.), pp. 1–42 | Article
1989 The Creation of Tense and Aspect Systems in the Languages of the World Studies in Language 13:1, pp. 51–103 | Article
1987 Review of Dahl (1985): Tense and Aspect Systems Studies in Language 11:2, pp. 447–458 | Review
1987 The evolution of future meaning Papers from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Onofrio Carruba and Giuliano Bernini (eds.), pp. 109–122 | Article
1985 Diagrammatic iconicity in stem-inflection relations Iconicity in Syntax: Proceedings of a symposium on iconicity in syntax, Stanford, June 24–26, 1983, Haiman, John † (ed.), pp. 11–48 | Article
1982 Why small children cannot change language on their own: suggestions from the English past tense Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Galway, April 6–10 1981, Ahlqvist, Anders (ed.), pp. 29–37 | Article