Martin G. Becker
List of John Benjamins publications in which Martin G. Becker is involved.
2025 The role of “puisque” in discourse debated: From polyphony to argumentation: A new approach Revue Romane 60:2, pp. 231–266 | Article
This paper presents and discusses various discourse-linguistic approaches to the description and analysis of the French connector “puisque”, casting some light on crucial lines of research on the role of connectors in the domain of discourse linguistics. Highlighting some limitations of the… read more
2021 The Pluperfect and its discourse potential in contrast: A comparison between Spanish, French and Italian Revue Romane 56:2, pp. 267–296 | Article
This paper intends to compare the functions of the Pluperfect in discourse from a comparative perspective, taking into account the use of this particular tense form in three different Romance languages, namely French, Italian and Spanish. In particular, it tries to elucidate in what way the… read more
2014 Chapter 10. Informational status and the semantics
of mood in Spanish preposed complement clauses Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish: Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives, Dufter, Andreas and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (eds.), pp. 283–308 | Chapter
This corpus-based study examines the principles of mood selection in Spanish preposed complement clauses. It tries to prove that the relevant factor for mood selection is not the informational status of the preposed complement clause but its semantic nature or, more precisely, the contrast between… read more
2011 The reorganisation of mood in the epistemic subsystem – The case of French belief predicates in diachronic dynamics Corpus-based Analysis and Diachronic Linguistics, Kawaguchi, Yuji, Makoto Minegishi and Wolfgang Viereck (eds.), pp. 111–131 | Article
2010 Mood in Portuguese Mood in the Languages of Europe, Rothstein, Björn and Rolf Thieroff (eds.), pp. 179–197 | Article
2010 Mood in Rumanian Mood in the Languages of Europe, Rothstein, Björn and Rolf Thieroff (eds.), pp. 251–270 | Article
2008 From temporal to modal: Divergent fates of the Latin synthetic pluperfect in Spanish and Portuguese The Paradox of Grammatical Change: Perspectives from Romance, Detges, Ulrich and Richard Waltereit (eds.), pp. 147–180 | Article
This corpus-based study examines the different historical stages the Latin synthetic pluperfect underwent in Spanish and Portuguese. It tries to explain parallel and divergent developments of the morpheme -ara leading to opposite results: the strengthening of the form as an exclusively temporal… read more
2005 Venir/venire + participe présent en diachronie: les leçons de deux trajectoires différentes et d’un échec commun Les Périphrases Verbales, Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot, Hava et Nicole Le Querler (dir.), pp. 311–335 | Article