Silke Höche
List of John Benjamins publications in which Silke Höche is involved.
Articles
2011 I am about to die vs. I am going to die: A usage-based comparison between two future-indicating constructions Converging Evidence: Methodological and theoretical issues for linguistic research, Schönefeld, Doris (ed.), pp. 115–142 | Article
This study portrays be about to as a construction which, although frequently described as nearly synonymous to be going to, falls somewhere in between the categories of futurate forms and ingressive aspectualizers. Constructional properties that distinguish be about to from be going to are worked… read more
2009 A corpus-based investigation
of cognate object constructions Exploring the Lexis–Grammar Interface, Römer-Barron, Ute and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 189–209 | Article
This paper takes up a corpus-based discussion of so-called Cognate Object Constructions (COC) (as exemplified in He slept a deep and dreamless sleep), carried out within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics (CL). This paradigm has recently become criticized for promoting a usage-based approach to… read more