Dietmar Zaefferer
List of John Benjamins publications in which Dietmar Zaefferer is involved.
Articles
2021 Chapter 5. Are new words predictable? A pilot study on the origin of neologies by means of natural selection Building Categories in Interaction: Linguistic resources at work, Mauri, Caterina, Ilaria Fiorentini and Eugenio Goria (eds.), pp. 111–154 | Chapter
Research on neologisms has so far been dominated by retrospective investigations (cf. e.g. Schmid 2008; Kerremans & Prokić 2018). By contrast, the present study is probably the first to directly tap into speakers’ linguistic competence by eliciting names for unfamiliar entities. Building on early… read more
1981 On the formal treatment of illocutionary force indicators Possibilities and Limitations of Pragmatics: Proceedings of the Conference on Pragmatics, Urbino, July 8–14, 1979, Parret, Herman, Marina Sbisà and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 779–798 | Article