Costas Canakis

List of John Benjamins publications in which Costas Canakis is involved.

Journal

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict

Edited by Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich and Maria Sifianou

ISSN 2213-1272 | E‑ISSN 2213‑1280

Articles

Canakis, Costas 2019 Barrett, Rusty. 2017. From Drag Queens to Leathermen: Language, Gender and Gay Male Subcultures  Journal of Language and Sexuality 8:1, pp. 132–137 | Review

Canakis, Costas 2015 Non-quantifying líγo constructions in Modern Greek Constructions and Frames 7:1, pp. 47–78 | Article

In this paper I focus on MGr lίγo ‘(a) little’ in non-quantifying constructions codifying affect and argue that it has grammaticalized from a quantifier to an (inter)subjective metalinguistic hedging device: i.e., a positive politeness marker in the hedged directive construction and a marker of… read more