Hannah Booth
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hannah Booth is involved.
Articles
2024 Time-clefts, expletives and orality in Early Icelandic saga narratives The Evolution of Expletives: Theoretical and diachronic perspectives, Fuß, Eric and Benjamin L. Sluckin (eds.), pp. 27–58 | Article
This paper challenges the received wisdom on the diachronic development of expletives in Germanic and contributes to the increasing crosslinguistic evidence that expletives can be related to discourse-pragmatic properties, even at an early stage in their development. I examine the status of… read more
2020 Expletives in Icelandic: A corpus study Historical Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July – 4 August 2017, Drinka, Bridget (ed.), pp. 363–384 | Chapter
Various claims have been made concerning expletives in historical Icelandic (Eythórsson & Sigurðardóttir, 2016; Hróarsdóttir, 1998; Rögnvaldsson, 2002). However, previous studies are limited to certain centuries and/or text types. This paper assesses the status of expletives throughout all… read more