University of Würzburg

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Würzburg*

Titles

Affectivity in Interaction: Sound objects in English

Elisabeth Reber

Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 215] 2012. ix, 281 pp. | monograph

Dialogue in Politics

Edited by Lawrence N. Berlin & Anita Fetzer

Subjects Communication Studies | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Dialogue Studies, 18] 2012. vii, 313 pp. | edited volume

Context and Contexts: Parts meet whole?

Edited by Anita Fetzer & Etsuko Oishi

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 209] 2011. vii, 239 pp. | edited volume

Kersten, Kristin, Karen Glaser, Hannah Ruhm, Jana Roos, Sonja Brunsmeier & Martin J. Koch 2025 Student teachers’ and mentors’ perceptions of effective teaching techniques in the primary L2 English classroom

In: Early Language Education in Instructed Contexts: Current issues and empirical insights into teaching and learning languages in primary school, Frisch, Stefanie & Karen Glaser (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 62] pp. 260–285 | open access

Mlakar, Heike, Joanna Hirst-Plein & Martin J. Koch 2025 L2 spelling predictors of young German learners of English

In: Early Language Education in Instructed Contexts: Current issues and empirical insights into teaching and learning languages in primary school, Frisch, Stefanie & Karen Glaser (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 62] pp. 118–140 | open access

Halfmann, Jakob 2025 The diachronic typology of retroflex vowels

Keywords: retroflex vowels | rhotic vowels | sound change | diachronic typology

In: Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022, Kennard, Holly, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri & Martin Maiden (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 369] pp. 50–61

Joseph, Brian D., Shuan O. Karim & Clint K. Awai-Jennings 2025 Historical linguistics for high school students: The Ohio experience

Keywords: historical linguistics | summer program | SLIYS | Metro Early College High School

Pedagogical Linguistics 6:2 pp. 155–174 | article

Winter-Froemel, Esme 2025  Go home (6 Jan 2021): On dog whistles, multiple addressee groups and ambiguity in language use

Keywords: ambiguity | language use | dog whistle | accomplice whistle | multiple addressing

Lingvisticæ Investigationes 47:2 pp. 315–348 | article | open access

Fries, Simon & Natalie Korobzow 2024 On the dating of sound changes and its implications for language relationship: The case of Proto-Yeniseian *p- > Ket h-, Yugh f-

Keywords: Comparative Method | long-range comparison | language relationship | Yeniseian | Na-Dene | Dene-Yeniseian | sound change | dating | chronology

Diachronica 41:4 pp. 525–555 | article | open access

Sandrock, Kirsten 2024 The temporalities of cultural transfer: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific travel writing

Keywords: Robert Louis Stevenson | Pacific | cultural transfer | temporality | travel writing | A Footnote to History | In the South Seas

In: Travel Writing and Cultural Transfer, Broomans, Petra & Jeanette den Toonder (eds.) [FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 20] pp. 62–80

Lehnen, Lisa 2023 

English World-Wide 44:2 pp. 303–311 | book review

Breyl, Michael 2024 Reconsidering linguistic nativism from an interdisciplinary, emergentist perspective

Keywords: nativism | universal grammar | linguistic theory | biolinguistics | generative grammar | construction grammar

Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 5:2 pp. 162–193 | article

Kocharov, Petr 2022 Anticausatives in Classical Armenian

Keywords: Classical Armenian | anticausative | causative-anticausative alternation | valency orientation | diachronic typology

Journal of Historical Linguistics 13:2 pp. 255–294 | article

Bornholdt, Jon 2023 The contingency of prophetic semantics in Walter Chatton’s Lectura

Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter 25 pp. 78–97 | article

Winter-Froemel, Esme 2021 Sources of verbal humor in the lexicon: A usage-based perspective on incongruity

Keywords: creativity | inappropriateness | incongruity | lexical borrowing | lexical innovation | lexicography | ludic deformation | ludic usage | markedness | verbal humor

In: Figurative Language - Intersubjectivity and Usage, Soares da Silva, Augusto (ed.) [Figurative Thought and Language, 11] pp. 357–386

Schulz, Ninja, Carolin Biewer & Lisa Lehnen 2020  Hongkongites, Hong Kongers, Hong Kong Belongers?: Tracing identity (re)constructions in news discourse in Hong Kong from 1903 to 1999

Keywords: Hong Kong English | identity construction | news discourse | Dynamic Model | diachronic | demonyms

English World-Wide 41:3 pp. 295–324 | article

Kölligan, Daniel 2020 The perfect in Classical Armenian

Keywords: perfect | Armenian | genitive subject | target state | resultative

In: Perfects in Indo-European languages and beyond, Crellin, Robert & Thomas Jügel (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 352] pp. 351–376

Biewer, Carolin, Lisa Lehnen & Ninja Schulz 2020  “The future elected government should fully represent the interests of Hongkong people”: Diachronic change in the use of modalising expressions in Hong Kong English between 1928 and 2018

Keywords: Hong Kong English (HKE) | diachronic | corpus linguistics | newspaper discourse | socio-political context

In: Re-assessing Modalising Expressions: Categories, co-text, and context, Hohaus, Pascal & Rainer Schulze (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 216] pp. 311–342

Kabak, Barış & Janne Lorenzen 2020 Paradigm leveling and regularization derive variation in stress: A corpus study on Turkish non-final stress at the morphology-phonology interface

Keywords: stress variation | paradigm leveling | lexical stress | regularization

In: Morphological Complexity within and across Boundaries: In honor of Aslı Göksel, Gürer, Aslı, Dilek Uygun-Gökmen & Balkız Öztürk (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 215] pp. 193–210

Reber, Elisabeth 2020 Visuo-material performances: 'Literalized’ quotations in prime minister’s questions

Keywords: quotation | PMQs | visuo-material performance | rhetorical device | evidentiality

AILA Review 33 pp. 176–203 | article | open access

Röttig, Stefan 2019 Christina Kreuzwieser, Der Begriff ‚natura‘ und seine ethische Relevanz in Senecas Prosaschriften

Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter 21:1 pp. 228–231 | book review

Zaretsky, Eugen & Benjamin P. Lange 2015 Ob Italienisch Deutsch fördert: Warum Italienisch sprechende Kinder schneller Deutsch erwerben als einige andere Migrantengruppen in Deutschland

Keywords: gesture | pro-drop languages | Turkish | Discourse | reference tracking

Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 4:1 pp. 122–140 | article

Reber, Elisabeth 2014  Obama said it : Quoting as an evidential strategy in online discussion forums

Keywords: quotations | online discussion forums | accountability | evidentiality | deixis

Language and Dialogue 4:1 pp. 76–92 | article

Rizza, Alfredo & Paola Cotticelli Kurras 2013 Reconstructing Proto-Indo-European categories: The reflexive and the middle in Hittite and in the Proto-language

Keywords: Hittite particle -za | middle | Proto-Indo-European verbal system | Baltic suffix -si | reflexive category

Journal of Historical Linguistics 3:1 p. 7 | article

Fetzer, Anita & Marjut Johansson 2012 Cognitive verbs in context: A contrastive analysis of English and French argumentative discourse

In: Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, Marzo, Stefania, Kris Heylen & Gert de Sutter (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 43] p. 89

Berlin, Lawrence N. & Anita Fetzer 2012 Dialogue in politics

In: Dialogue in Politics, Berlin, Lawrence N. & Anita Fetzer (eds.) [Dialogue Studies, 18] p. 3

Ziem, Alexander & Sven Staffeldt 2011 Compositional and embodied meanings of somatisms: A corpus-based approach to phraseologisms

In: Converging Evidence: Methodological and theoretical issues for linguistic research, Schönefeld, Doris (ed.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 33] pp. 195–220

Schubert, Christoph 2010 Narrative sequences in political discourse: Forms and functions in speeches and hypertext frameworks

In: Narrative Revisited: Telling a story in the age of new media, Hoffmann, Christian R. (ed.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 199] pp. 143–162

Fetzer, Anita & Marjut Johansson 2010 Cognitive verbs in context: A contrastive analysis of English and French argumentative discourse

Keywords: English | cognitive verbs | French | intersubjectivity | pragmatic intensification | argumentative discourse

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 15:2 pp. 240–266 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.