Christopher J. Pountain
List of John Benjamins publications in which Christopher J. Pountain is involved.
2025 The Spanish progressives: Linguistic exploitation of a maverick category? The Progressive Revisited: Historical and Quantitative Studies in Germanic and Romance Languages, Carlucci, Alessandro and Jerzy Nykiel (eds.), pp. 230–254 | Chapter
I present the development of the Spanish progressives as an instance of capitalization as defined in Pountain (2000). Spanish is rich in periphrastic verb forms, which are often highlighted as a particular expressive richness of the language. A number of verbs denoting location and directional… read more
2018 Chapter 13. Variation and the use of discourse markers in 16th-century Spanish Studies in Historical Ibero-Romance Morpho-Syntax, Bouzouita, Miriam, Ioanna Sitaridou and Enrique Pato (eds.), pp. 303–324 | Chapter
This study aims to account for the differing uses and frequency profiles of a variety of discourse markers (DMs) in four roughly contemporaneous 16th-century Spanish texts which are contrasting in nature.1 Such a methodology complements previous studies which have used large heterogeneous corpora,… read more
2006 Towards a history of register in Spanish Language Variation and Change: Historical and contemporary perspectives, Mar-Molinero, Clare and Miranda Stewart (eds.), pp. 5–24 | Article
Although the significance of many other dimensions of variation in the data of Spanish historical linguistics is well recognised, the importance of studying variation in register has been underestimated and its feasibility questioned. This is in striking contrast to English historical linguistics,… read more
2000 Capitalization Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 1: General issues and non-Germanic Languages., Smith, John Charles and Delia Bentley (eds.), pp. 295–310 | Article