Samuel Zakowski
List of John Benjamins publications in which Samuel Zakowski is involved.
Articles
2018 The evolution of the Ancient Greek deverbal pragmatic markers áge, íthi and phére Journal of Historical Pragmatics 19:1, pp. 55–91 | Article
In this paper, I look at the Ancient Greek expressions áge, íthi and phére, which are all usually translated as ‘come (on)’. After discussing some existing accounts of these items, I look at their structural – syntactic properties and argue that they can be regarded as pragmaticalized… read more
2014 You didn’t build that. a relevance-theoretic approach to President Obama’s campaign flub Pragmatics 24:4, pp. 819–838 | Article
During the 2012 U.S. Presidential campaign, President Obama turned some heads by stating “If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that”. His opponents argued that this was an attack on private enterprise (with “that” referring to business), while his supporters and fact-checking organizations… read more