Rahel Oppliger
List of John Benjamins publications in which Rahel Oppliger is involved.
Articles
2022 (The) fact is … / (Die) Tatsache ist … focaliser constructions in English and German are similar but subject to different constraints International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:1, pp. 1–30 | Article
N-is/ist constructions are elements in the left periphery of English/German sentences that have developed pragmatic meaning: they can be used as discourse markers with various functions, depending on the nominal element that is used in the construction. We use evidence from parallel and… read more
2022 Post-head compression in noun phrase referring expressions: Structural change in interactive communication English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective: Current issues, Sommerer, Lotte and Evelien Keizer (eds.), pp. 107–134 | Chapter
In communication, language users frequently produce referring expressions with noun phrases at their centre (NP REs). Over the course of a communicative interaction, interlocutors’ use of NP REs tends to change: previous research has attested to speakers’ tendency to converge on linguistic… read more
