Chris Cummins

List of John Benjamins publications in which Chris Cummins is involved.

Title

English Historical Linguistics: Historical English in contact. Papers from the XXth ICEHL

Edited by Bettelou Los, Chris Cummins, Lisa Gotthard, Alpo Honkapohja and Benjamin Molineaux

This volume drawn from the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018) focuses on the role of language contact in the history of English. It showcases a wide variety of historical linguistic approaches, including ‘big data’ analyses of large corpora,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 359] 2022. vi, 185 pp.

Articles

Cummins, Chris 2022 Chapter 1. Introduction English Historical Linguistics: Historical English in contact, Los, Bettelou, Chris Cummins, Lisa Gotthard, Alpo Honkapohja and Benjamin Molineaux (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Chapter

Post, Brechtje, Emmanuel A. Stamatakis, Iwo Bohr, Francis Nolan and Chris Cummins 2015 Categories and gradience in intonation: A functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging study The Phonetics–Phonology Interface: Representations and methodologies, Romero, Joaquín and María Riera (eds.), pp. 259–284 | Article

The Autosegmental-Metrical framework (AM) assumes that a distinction needs to be made between linguistic phonological information (categorical) and paralinguistic phonetic information (gradient) in intonation. However, empirical evidence supporting this assumption has proved to be elusive so far.… read more

Cummins, Chris and Napoleon Katsos 2012 Modelling context within a constraint-based account of quantifier usage What is a Context?: Linguistic approaches and challenges, Finkbeiner, Rita, Jörg Meibauer and Petra B. Schumacher (eds.), pp. 229–250 | Article

Recent work on numerically-quantified expressions has aimed to identify which components of their meaning are semantic and which are pragmatic. Pragmatically-oriented accounts assign a crucial role to contextual factors, such as the level of information requested in the preceding discourse and the… read more