Paul J. Hopper

List of John Benjamins publications in which Paul J. Hopper is involved.

Journal

Journal of Historical Linguistics

General Editor: Silvia Luraghi and Guglielmo Inglese

ISSN 2210-2116 | E‑ISSN 2210‑2124

Titles (6) | Order by:

Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure

Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Paul J. Hopper

A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as grammar. This book addresses the two issues that are basic to this claim: first, the question of what types of elements are frequently used… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 45] 2001. vii, 492 pp.

The Limits of Grammaticalization

Edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat and Paul J. Hopper

The earliest use of the term “grammaticalization” was to refer to the process whereby lexical words of a language (such as English keep in “he keeps bees”) become grammatical forms (such as the auxiliary in “he keeps looking at me”). Changes of this kind, which involve semantic fading and a… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 37] 1998. vi, 307 pp.

Voice: Form and Function

Edited by Barbara A. Fox and Paul J. Hopper

The volume's central concern is grammatical voice, traditionally known as diathesis, and its classical manifestations as Active, Middle, and Passive. While numerous problems in the meaning, syntax, and morphology of these categories in Indo-European remain unsolved, their counterparts in more… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 27] 1994. xiii, 377 pp.

Toward Proto-Nostratic: A New Approach to the Comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic

Allan R. Bomhard

This book represents the culmination of the author’s work to date – it incorporates and updates previous articles and adds much new material. This book is not – nor was it ever intended to be – a comparative grammar of either the Indo-European or the Afroasiatic language families. It is, rather, a… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 27] 1984. xi, 356 pp.

Tense-Aspect: Between semantics & pragmatics

Edited by Paul J. Hopper

The verbal categories of tense and aspect have been studied traditionally from the point of view of their reference to the timing and time-perspective of the speaker’s reported experience. They are universal categories both in terms of the semantic-functional domain they cover as well as in terms… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 1] 1982. ix, 350 pp.

Studies in Descriptive and Historical Linguistics: Festschrift for Winfred P. Lehmann

Edited by Paul J. Hopper

This volume of articles was prepared in honor of Winfred P. Lehmann on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The papers are presented in two sections: I. Studies in Descriptive Linguistics, and II. Studies in Historical Linguistics. The volume contains contributions by R.M.W. Dixon, Ralph M. Goodman,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 4] 1977. x, 502 pp.

Articles (27) | Order by:

Hopper, Paul J. 2021 “ You turn your back and there’s somebody moving in ”: Syntactic anacrusis in spoken English Interactional Linguistics 1:1, pp. 64–89 | Article

Anacrustic Coordination (AC) is a type of biclausal conjunction such that an initial clause or phrase sets up a state of affairs and is followed by and and a strongly focused second clause, for example three years it’s been sitting here and I haven’t done it. AC figures in a number of kinds of… read more

Hopper, Paul J. 2020 Chapter 12. Afterword Emergent Syntax for Conversation: Clausal patterns and the organization of action, Maschler, Yael, Simona Pekarek Doehler, Jan Lindström and Leelo Keevallik (eds.), pp. 331–338 | Chapter

Hopper, Paul J. 2015 Temporality and the Emergence of a Construction: A Discourse Approach to Sluicing Temporality in Interaction, Deppermann, Arnulf and Susanne Günthner (eds.), pp. 123–146 | Article

A sluice (Ross 1969) is a wh-word that, in the standard syntactic view, refers to ellipted material in an antecedent clause. In the present study, based on conversational data, I view sluices from a temporal and interactional perspective in which grammatical constructions are seen as emergent in… read more

Hopper, Paul J. and Sandra A. Thompson 2008 Projectability and clause combining in interaction Crosslinguistic Studies of Clause Combining: The multifunctionality of conjunctions, Laury, Ritva (ed.), pp. 99–123 | Article

We examine a set of supposedly “biclausal” constructions in natural conversations in English and German, and argue that: (1) these constructions are not biclausal, since the second “clause” is typically not a clause but an indeterminate stretch of discourse without a consistent syntactic structure;… read more

Hopper, Paul J. 2002 Hendiadys and auxiliation in English Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Essays in honor of Sandra A. Thompson, Bybee, Joan L. and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. 145–173 | Article

Bybee, Joan L. and Paul J. Hopper 2001 Introduction to frequency and the emergence of linguistic structure Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure, Bybee, Joan L. and Paul J. Hopper (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article

Thompson, Sandra A. and Paul J. Hopper 2001 Transitivity, clause structure, and argument structure: Evidence from conversation Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure, Bybee, Joan L. and Paul J. Hopper (eds.), pp. 27–60 | Article

Giacalone Ramat, Anna and Paul J. Hopper 1998 Introduction The Limits of Grammaticalization, Giacalone Ramat, Anna and Paul J. Hopper (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Article

Hopper, Paul J. 1998 The Paradigm at the End of the Universe The Limits of Grammaticalization, Giacalone Ramat, Anna and Paul J. Hopper (eds.), pp. 147–158 | Article

Hopper, Paul J. 1997 Dualisms in the Study of Narrative: A Note on Labov and Waletzky Oral Versions of Personal Experience: Three decades of narrative analysis, pp. 74–82 | Article

Hopper, Paul J. 1997 Dispersed Verbal Predicates in Vernacular Written Narrative Directions in Functional Linguistics, Kamio, Akio (ed.), pp. 1–18 | Article

Hopper, Paul J. 1997 When ‘Grammar’ and Discourse Clash: The Problem of Source Conflicts Essays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to T. Givón, Bybee, Joan L., John Haiman † and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 231–248 | Article

Hopper, Paul J. 1995 The Category ‘Event’ in Natural Discourse and Logic Discourse, Grammar and Typology: Papers in honor of John W.M. Verhaar, Abraham, Werner, T. Givón and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 139–150 | Article

Hopper, Paul J. 1994 Phonogenesis Perspectives on Grammaticalization, Pagliuca, William (ed.), pp. 29–45 | Article

Hopper, Paul J. 1991 On some principles of grammaticization Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume I. Theoretical and methodological issues, Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Bernd Heine (eds.), pp. 17–36 | Article

Hopper, Paul J. 1990 Principles of grammaticization: towards a diachronic typology Language Typology 1987: Systematic Balance in Language, Lehmann, Winfred P. (ed.), pp. 157–170 | Article

Hopper, Paul J. 1990 Where do words come from? Studies in Typology and Diachrony: Papers presented to Joseph H. Greenberg on his 75th birthday, Croft, William A., Suzanne Kemmer and Keith Denning (eds.), pp. 151–160 | Article

Hopper, Paul J. 1987 24. Stability and change in VN/NV alternating languages: A study in pragmatics and linguistic typology The Pragmatic Perspective: Selected papers from the 1985 International Pragmatics Conference, Verschueren, Jef and Marcella Bertuccelli Papi (eds.), pp. 455–476 | Chapter

Hopper, Paul J. and Janice Martin 1987 Structuralism and diachrony: the development of the indefinite article in English Papers from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Onofrio Carruba and Giuliano Bernini (eds.), pp. 295–304 | Article

Hopper, Paul J. 1986 Some Discourse Functions of Classifiers in Malay Noun Classes and Categorization: Proceedings of a symposium on categorization and noun classification, Eugene, Oregon, October 1983, Craig, Colette G. (ed.), pp. 309–326 | Article

Hopper, Paul J. 1986 Discourse function and word order shift: A typological study of the VS/SV alternation Language Typology 1985: Papers from the Linguistic Typology Symposium, Moscow, 9–13 Dec. 1985, Lehmann, Winfred P. (ed.), pp. 123–140 | Article

Hopper, Paul J. and Sandra A. Thompson 1985 The iconicity of the universal categories “noun” and “verb” Iconicity in Syntax: Proceedings of a symposium on iconicity in syntax, Stanford, June 24–26, 1983, Haiman, John † (ed.), pp. 151–186 | Article

Hopper, Paul J. 1982

Preface

By Paul J. Hopper

Tense-Aspect: Between semantics & pragmatics, Hopper, Paul J. (ed.), p. | Preface

Hopper, Paul J. 1982 Aspect between Discourse and Grammar: An Introductory Essay for the Volume Tense-Aspect: Between semantics & pragmatics, Hopper, Paul J. (ed.), pp. 3–18 | Article

Hopper, Paul J. 1981 “Decem” and “Taihyn” languages: An Indo-European isogloss Bono Homini Donum: Essays in Historical Linguistics, in Memory of J. Alexander Kerns. (2 volumes), Arbeitman, Yoël L. and Allan R. Bomhard (eds.), pp. 133–142 | Article

Hopper, Paul J. 1979 Some Observations on the Typology of Focus and Aspect in Narrative Language Studies in Language 3:1, pp. 37–64 | Article

Hopper, Paul J. 1977 28. Hildebrandslied 35b: Dat ih dir it nu bi huldi gibu Studies in Descriptive and Historical Linguistics: Festschrift for Winfred P. Lehmann, Hopper, Paul J. (ed.), pp. 481–486 | Chapter