Claudia Wegener
List of John Benjamins publications in which Claudia Wegener is involved.
2026 Chapter 8. Taking language use seriously: On the importance of multimodality and interaction in documentary practices The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations, Riesberg, Sonja, Uta Reinöhl and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 182–209 | Chapter
The aim of language documentation is to provide a comprehensive record of the observable linguistic behaviour and practices of a language community to be used now and in the future. The endeavour goes beyond the mere description of the linguistic system. To serve as a multipurpose record, the… read more
2022 Cross-linguistic patterns in the lexicalisation of bring and take Studies in Language 46:4, pp. 934–993 | Article
This study investigates the linguistic expression of bring and take events and more generally of the semantic domain of directed caused accompanied motion (‘directed CAM’) across a sample of eight languages of the Pacific and the Americas. Unlike English, the majority of languages in our sample… read more
2022 The expression of directed caused accompanied motion events in Savosavo Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective, Margetts, Anna, Sonja Riesberg and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 301–340 | Chapter
Directed caused accompanied motion events in Savosavo are expressed by means of multi-verb expressions. The main strategy is the use of serial verb constructions (especially ‑au ’take/caus’ combined with a directional verb). Minor strategies are subordination of a single verb into a main clause… read more
2021 Handling talk: A cross-linguistic perspective on discursive functions of gestures in German and Savosavo Recurrent Gestures, Harrison, Simon, Silva H. Ladewig and Jana Bressem (eds.), pp. 219–253 | Article
This paper discusses how a particular type of recurrent gesture, the holding away gesture, highlights and structures spoken utterances in German and Savosavo, a Papuan language spoken in Solomon Islands in the Southwest Pacific. In particular, the paper poses the following questions: What kinds… read more
2017 Multimodal language use in Savosavo: Refusing, excluding and negating with speech and gesture Pragmatics 27:2, pp. 173–206 | Article
Departing from a short overview on pragmatic gestures specialized for the expression of refusal and negation, the article presents first results of a study on those gestures in Savosavo, a Papuan language spoken in the Solomon Islands in the Southwest Pacific. The paper focuses on two partly… read more
2011 12. Expression of reciprocity in Savosavo Reciprocals and Semantic Typology, Evans, Nicholas, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson and Asifa Majid (eds.), pp. 213–224 | Article
This paper describes how reciprocity is expressed in the Papuan (i.e. non-Austronesian) language Savosavo, spoken in the Solomon Islands. The main strategy is to use the reciprocal nominal mapamapa, which can occur in different NP positions and always triggers default third person singular… read more