Dagmar Haumann

List of John Benjamins publications in which Dagmar Haumann is involved.

Titles

The Development of Speaker-Oriented Adverbs in English: Reanalysis, ellipsis, lexicalization or analogy?

Dagmar Haumann and Kristin Killie

The book investigates the development of ‘speaker-oriented adverbs’ (SOAs) such as frankly, surprisingly, and apparently in standard written English. SOAs take propositional scope, i.e. they modify clauses or sentences. It is generally assumed that they have developed from historically prior… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 287] 2025. ix, 188 pp.

Extravagant Morphology: Studies in rule-bending, pattern-extending and theory-challenging morphology

Edited by Matthias Eitelmann and Dagmar Haumann

Taking extra-vagans literally (Lat. ‘wandering outside, out of bounds’), this volume comprises nine case studies on extravagant morphology ranging from pattern-extending derivational processes via theory-challenging compounding processes to interface-straddling morphosyntactic phenomena. As a… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 223] 2022. v, 258 pp.

Adverb Licensing and Clause Structure in English

Dagmar Haumann

This monograph provides an in-depth investigation of the structural integration and the licensing of adverbs in relation to clause structure, with special emphasis on the structural implementation of the relation between the position and interpretation of adverbs. The book substantiates the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 105] 2007. ix, 435 pp.

Articles

Eitelmann, Matthias and Dagmar Haumann 2022 Extravagance in morphology: Introduction Extravagant Morphology: Studies in rule-bending, pattern-extending and theory-challenging morphology, Eitelmann, Matthias and Dagmar Haumann (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter

Haumann, Dagmar 2018 Active and passive tough-infinitives: A case of long-term grammatical variation Reorganising Grammatical Variation: Diachronic studies in the retention, redistribution and refunctionalisation of linguistic variants, Dammel, Antje, Matthias Eitelmann and Mirjam Schmuck (eds.), pp. 269–296 | Chapter

This paper probes into the determinants of the long-term grammatical variation of active and passive tough-infinitives, as well as into the factors that ultimately led to the decline of passive tough-infinitives. It is argued that, throughout their coexistence, the active and the passive… read more

Haumann, Dagmar 2004 Degree Phrases versus Quantifier Phrases in prenominal and preverbal positions: A hybrid explanation for some distributional asymmetries Adverbials: The interplay between meaning, context, and syntactic structure, Austin, Jennifer R., Stefan Engelberg and Gisa Rauh (eds.), pp. 167–203 | Article