Elisabeth Leiss
List of John Benjamins publications in which Elisabeth Leiss is involved.
Book series
ISSN 0165-7763
Journal
Evolutionary Linguistic Theory
Edited by Ermenegildo Bidese and Eric Fuß
ISSN 2589-1588 | E‑ISSN 2589‑1596
Thetics and Categoricals
Edited by Werner Abraham, Elisabeth Leiss and Yasuhiro Fujinawa
Thetics and Categoricals do not belong to the categories of German grammar. Thetics were introduced in logic as impersonal and broad focus constructions. They left profound and extensive traces in the logic of the late 19th century. For the class of thetic propositions, the criterion of textual… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 262] 2020. vii, 390 pp.
Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between
Edited by Sibilla Cantarini, Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss
The selected papers of this volume cover five main topics, namely ‘Certainty: The conceptual differential’; ‘(Un)Certainty as attitudinality’; ‘Dialogical exchange and speech acts’; ‘Onomasiology’; and ‘Applications in exegesis and religious discourse’. By examining the general theme of the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 165] 2014. x, 365 pp.
Modes of Modality: Modality, typology, and universal grammar
Edited by Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham
The volume aims at a universal definition of modality or “illocutionary/speaker’s perspective force” that is strong enough to capture the entire range of different subtypes and varieties of modalities in different languages. The central idea is that modality is all-pervasive in language. This… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 149] 2014. vi, 511 pp.
Modality–Aspect Interfaces: Implications and typological solutions
Edited by Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss
The main topics pursued in this volume are based on empirical insights derived from Germanic: logical and typological dispositions about aspect-modality links. These are probed in a variety of non-related languages. The logically establishable links are the following: Modal verbs are aspect… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 79] 2008. xxiv, 422 pp.
Nominal Determination: Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence
Edited by Elisabeth Stark, Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham
The following theoretical-empirical points on the DP are discussed: Article and its referential-anaphoric properties by Abraham (Determiners in Centering Theory); Bartra (On bare NPs in Old Spanish and Catalan); identification of all functional nominal categories by Stvan (Bare singular count… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 89] 2007. viii, 370 pp.
2021 On conceptualizing grammatical change in a Darwinian framework: A reply to Hubert Haider Biological Evolution: More than a metaphor for grammar change, Manzini, Maria Rita (ed.), pp. 93–108 | Commentary
Approaching language change within a Darwinian framework constitutes a long-standing tradition within the literature of diachronic linguistics. However, many publications remain vague, omitting conceptual details or missing necessary terminology. For example, phylogenetic trees of language… read more
2020 Categorical versus thetic sentences in the Universal Grammar of Realism Thetics and Categoricals, Abraham, Werner, Elisabeth Leiss and Yasuhiro Fujinawa (eds.), pp. 13–30 | Chapter
The aim of this paper is to outline that the notions of thetic versus categorical sentences are characteristic of a long tradition of philosophy, especially of the philosophy of Realism. Characteristic of Realism is a highly developed theory of the copula. Sentences consist of a subject, a… read more
2017 Multiple case binding – The principled underspecification of case exponency Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency, Hellan, Lars, Andrej L. Malchukov and Michela Cennamo (eds.), pp. 27–82 | Chapter
2014 Modes of modality in an Un-Cartesian framework Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between, Cantarini, Sibilla, Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss (eds.), pp. 47–62 | Article
The central aim of this paper is to show that Certainty as encoded by the linguistic means of epistemicity and evidentiality differs in essential ways form Certainty in metalinguistic terms (Objectivity). The paper starts with a presentation of the building blocks of the epistemic and evidential… read more
2014 Introduction Modes of Modality: Modality, typology, and universal grammar, Leiss, Elisabeth and Werner Abraham (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
2008 Introduction: Aspect-modality interfaces and interchanges across languages Modality–Aspect Interfaces: Implications and typological solutions, Abraham, Werner and Elisabeth Leiss (eds.), pp. xi–xxiv | Miscellaneous
2008 The silent and aspect-driven patterns of deonticity and epistemicity: A chapter in diachronic typology Modality–Aspect Interfaces: Implications and typological solutions, Abraham, Werner and Elisabeth Leiss (eds.), pp. 15–41 | Article
2007 Introduction Nominal Determination: Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence, Stark, Elisabeth, Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Miscellaneous
2007 Covert patterns of definiteness/indefiniteness and aspectuality in Old Icelandic, Gothic, and Old High German Nominal Determination: Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence, Stark, Elisabeth, Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham (eds.), pp. 73–102 | Article
It is assumed that the rise of the defi nite article is due to changes in the aspectual system of a language. Defi niteness and perfective aspect are shown to be just two instantiations of the same grammatical function. So are indefi niteness and imperfective aspect. Defi nite nouns and perfective… read more
2006 The impersonal passive: voice suspended under aspectual conditions Passivization and Typology: Form and function, Abraham, Werner and Larisa Leisiö (eds.), pp. 502–517 | Article