Tine Breban
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tine Breban is involved.
Book series
ISSN 0165-7763
Titles
Lost in Change: Causes and processes in the loss of grammatical elements and constructions
Edited by Svenja Kranich and Tine Breban
While research on language change has formulated robust empirical generalisations about processes and motivations underlying the emergence and spread of linguistic elements, their decline and loss is less well understood. So far a systematic investigation into the processes and motivations of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 218] 2021. vi, 366 pp.
New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change
Edited by Sylvie Hancil, Tine Breban and José Vicente Lozano
The chapters in this volume present a state of the art of grammaticalization research in the 2010s. They are concerned with the application of new models, such as constructionalization, the ongoing debate about the status and modelling of the development of discourse markers, and reveal a renewed… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 202] 2018. vi, 433 pp.
Grammaticalization and Language Change: New reflections
Edited by Kristin Davidse, Tine Breban, Lieselotte Brems and Tanja Mortelmans
This collective volume focuses on the latest developments in the study of grammaticalization and related processes of change such as degrammaticalization, constructionalization, lexicalization, and petrification. It addresses topical issues relating to the motivations, sources, defining features,… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 130] 2012. viii, 342 pp.
2026 Multiple source explanation in language change: The emergence of auxiliary do Diachronica 43:1, pp. 41–73 | Article
The development of the English auxiliary do is a well-studied phenomenon, but there is no agreement on its source (see Denison 1993: Chapter 10). It has been suggested in the literature that a mono-causal account cannot satisfactorily capture the development (e.g., Fischer et al. 2017; Van der… read more
2021 Lost in Change: Introduction Lost in Change: Causes and processes in the loss of grammatical elements and constructions, Kranich, Svenja and Tine Breban (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Introduction
2018 Introduction: Grammaticalization in the 2010s – A dialogue between the old and the new New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change, Hancil, Sylvie, Tine Breban and José Vicente Lozano (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter
2016 Multiple shifts: New views on pathways and mechanisms of grammaticalization in the English noun phrase The Structure of the English NP: Synchronic and diachronic explorations, Davidse, Kristin (ed.), pp. 40–59 | Article
In this paper we report on a historical corpus study of English multiple, an adjective which underwent a process of grammaticalization starting from lexical uses with the meaning ‘composite’, e.g. HR 3617 is a multiple star, to grammaticalized uses as individualizer, paraphrasable as ‘different’,… read more
2014 Review of Narrog & Heine (2011): The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization Journal of Historical Pragmatics 15:1, pp. 153–158 | Review
2012 Introduction: New reflections on the sources, outcomes, defining features and motivations of grammaticalization Grammaticalization and Language Change: New reflections, Davidse, Kristin, Tine Breban, Lieselotte Brems and Tanja Mortelmans (eds.), pp. 1–36 | Article
2004 The grammaticalization of adjectives of identity and difference in English and Dutch Functional Linguistics and Contrastive Description, Davidse, Kristin and Liesbet Heyvaert (eds.), pp. 165–199 | Article
This article deals with adjectives of general comparison in English and Dutch, more particularly, with the core adjectives expressing identity and difference in both languages. These are, for identity, English same and identical and Dutch zelfde and identiek, and, for difference, English other and… read more