Dawn Nordquist

List of John Benjamins publications in which Dawn Nordquist is involved.

Title

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.

Articles

Nordquist, Dawn 2018 LOOK up about: Usage-based processes in lexicalization Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee, Smith, K. Aaron and Dawn Nordquist (eds.), pp. 225–245 | Chapter

This chapter investigates the emergence of a new English phrasal-prepositional verb, look up about, which is found predominantly in online discourse and is largely synonymous with “to google”. It is argued that the verb emerged as the result of a reanalysis of a source syntagm that eroded an… 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