Manfred Markus

List of John Benjamins publications in which Manfred Markus is involved.

Title

Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics: A multi-dimensional approach

Edited by Manfred Markus, Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger and Emil Chamson

This book brings together a variety of approaches to English corpus linguistics and shows how corpus methodologies can contribute to the linking of diachronic and synchronic studies. The articles in this volume investigate historical changes in the English language as well as specific aspects of… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 50] 2012. viii, 287 pp.

Markus, Manfred 2014 The pattern to be a-hunting from Middle 
to Late Modern English: Towards extrapolating from Wright’s English 
Dialect Dictionary Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns, Davidse, Kristin, Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière and Lieven Vandelanotte (eds.), pp. 57–80 | Article

The English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905), in its digitised beta-version EDD Online, allows for the retrieval of the gerund construction to be on verbing, generally in the reduced form to be a-verbing. The pattern was so much alive in the period covered by the EDD, 1700 to 1900, that its frequency… read more

Markus, Manfred 2012 The complexity and diversity of the words in Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics: A multi-dimensional approach, Markus, Manfred, Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger and Emil Chamson (eds.), pp. 209–224 | Article

Given that the Late Modern English (LModE) period has been widely neglected in English historical linguistics and that dialect is now seen by many to play a role as sociolect rather than regionalect, the material on English dialects in Joseph Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary (EDD) (1898––1905)… read more

Markus, Manfred, Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger and Emil Chamson 2012 Introduction Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics: A multi-dimensional approach, Markus, Manfred, Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger and Emil Chamson (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article

Markus, Manfred 2008 Germanic vs French fixed expressions in Middle English prose: Towards a corpus-based historical English phraseology English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006, Dury, Richard, Maurizio Gotti and Marina Dossena (eds.), pp. 159–184 | Article

Based on an analysis of the Innsbruck Prose Corpus, this paper gives evidence of the West Germanic heritage in Middle English fixed expressions. The samples include the non-French and non-modern use of prepositions and of the zeroarticle in prepositional phrases with adjectives (with loud word),… read more

Markus, Manfred 2006 English and German Prosody: A Contrastive Comparison Prosody and Syntax: Cross-linguistic perspectives, Kawaguchi, Yuji, Ivan Fónagy and Tsunekazu Moriguchi (eds.), pp. 103–124 | Article