Costas Gabrielatos
List of John Benjamins publications in which Costas Gabrielatos is involved.
Articles
2020 Chapter 6. Conditionals, modality, and Schrödinger’s cat: Conditionals as a family of linguistic qubits Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions: Categories, co-text, and context, Hohaus, Pascal and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 143–172 | Chapter
An intriguing characteristic of conditionals is that they are modally dense constructions, without being modal markers themselves. This chapter will examine the modal nature of conditionals through the lens of construction grammar. It will be argued that the main utility of conditionals does not… read more
2012 The peaks and troughs of corpus-based contextual analysis International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 17:2, pp. 151–175 | Article
This paper focuses upon two issues. Firstly, the question of identifying diachronic trends, and more importantly significant outliers, in corpora which permit an investigation of a feature at many sampling points over time. Secondly, we consider how best to combine more qualitatively oriented… read more