Leila Behrens
List of John Benjamins publications in which Leila Behrens is involved.
Articles
2012 Evidentiality, modality, focus and other puzzles: Some reflections on metadiscourse and typology Practical Theories and Empirical Practice: A linguistic perspective, Schalley, Andrea C. (ed.), pp. 185–244 | Article
Metadiscourse is a fundamental property of human communication in a way similar to speech acts. From a cross-linguistic study of metadiscourse, we can learn ‘how humans bridge the divide between self and others’ in communication. This chapter concentrates on those pragmatic aspects of metadiscourse… read more
2007 Backgrounding and suppression of reciprocal participants: A cross-linguistic study Studies in Language 31:2, pp. 327–408 | Article
According to traditional wisdom, reciprocal predicates can only occur with plural subjects. This is assumed either because the reciprocal predicates in question are constructed by means of a reciprocal anaphor, which is considered as being inherently plural and hence requiring a plural antecedent,… read more