Elke Gehweiler

List of John Benjamins publications in which Elke Gehweiler is involved.

Title

Grammaticalization: Current views and issues

Edited by Katerina Stathi, Elke Gehweiler and Ekkehard König

This volume contains a selection of papers on grammaticalization from a broad perspective. Some of the papers focus on basic concepts in grammaticalization research such as the concept of 'grammar' as the endpoint of grammaticalization processes, erosion, (uni)directionality, the relation between… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 119] 2010. vii, 379 pp.

Articles

Gehweiler, Elke 2010 The Grammaticalization of the German adjectives lauter (and eitel) Grammaticalization: Current views and issues, Stathi, Katerina, Elke Gehweiler and Ekkehard König (eds.), pp. 297–322 | Article

After a corpus semantic analysis of the synchronic uses of the originally synonymous words lauter and eitel, this article traces the grammaticalization of German lauter (with reference to eitel) on the basis of three diachronic corpora. Lauter was originally a privative adjective meaning ‘pure,… read more

Stathi, Katerina, Elke Gehweiler and Ekkehard König 2010 Introduction Grammaticalization: Current views and issues, Stathi, Katerina, Elke Gehweiler and Ekkehard König (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article

Gehweiler, Elke 2008 From proper name to primary interjection: The case of gee! Journal of Historical Pragmatics 9:1, pp. 71–88 | Article

This paper is concerned with interjections that have evolved from nouns. Looking at a subclass of interjections, so-called expletives like gee!, jeeze!, gosh!, crikey!, it will be shown how primary interjections regularly evolve from religious names (here Jesus, God, Christ) via secondary… read more