K. Aaron Smith

List of John Benjamins publications in which K. Aaron Smith is involved.

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Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee

Edited by K. Aaron Smith and Dawn Nordquist

The contributions to this volume honor Joan Bybee’s 2005 LSA Presidential address “Grammar is Usage and Usage is Grammar,” as a cumulative articulation of Professor Bybee's long and influential career in linguistics. The volume begins with a functional examination of child language acquisition of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 192] 2018. xxvi, 250 pp.

Smith, K. Aaron 2018 A usage-based account for the historical reflexes of ain’t in AAE Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee, Smith, K. Aaron and Dawn Nordquist (eds.), pp. 155–173 | Chapter

This paper is a comparative and historical study of the grammatical status of auxiliary ain‘t in African-American English (AAE). Drawing on the representation of AAE speakers in works of fiction from the 19th century and present-day, the paper confirms that the broad range of uses of auxiliary… read more

Smith, K. Aaron and Dawn Nordquist 2018 Introduction Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee, Smith, K. Aaron and Dawn Nordquist (eds.), pp. xv–xxvi | Chapter

Smith, K. Aaron and Dawn Nordquist 2012 A critical and historical investigation into semantic prosody Journal of Historical Pragmatics 13:2, pp. 291–312 | Article

While existing literature on cause frequently cites the negative meaning associated with that lexeme, i.e. the fact that cause tends to appear with a negative outcome, e.g. cause an accident, really no scholar has studied in any detail the historical development of the phenomenon. In order to… read more

Smith, K. Aaron 2007 Language use and auxiliary selection in the perfect Split Auxiliary Systems: A cross-linguistic perspective, Aranovich, Raúl (ed.), pp. 255–270 | Article

Smith, K. Aaron 2001 The role of frequency in the specialization of the English anterior Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure, Bybee, Joan L. and Paul J. Hopper (eds.), pp. 361–382 | Article