University of Cologne
List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Cologne*
The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations
EditorSonja Riesberg, Uta Reinöhl & Birgit Hellwig
Subjects Theoretical linguistics
Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa
Edited by Andrea Hollington, Alice Mitchell & Nico Nassenstein
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics
[Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 23] 2024. | edited volume | open access
Textbook English: A multi-dimensional approach
Elen Le Foll
Subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Spanish and the Portuguese Present Perfect in Discourse
Lukas Müller
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses: Synchronic and Diachronic Insights
Edited by Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Constanze Fleczoreck
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Anna Margetts, Sonja Riesberg & Birgit Hellwig
Subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Literacies in Contact: Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 23:2 (2020)
Edited by Manuela Böhm, Constanze Weth & Daniel Bunčić
Subjects Discourse studies | Language teaching | Writing and literacy
The Linguistics of Olfaction: Typological and Diachronic Approaches to Synchronic Diversity
Edited by Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Przemysław Staniewski
Subjects Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Operationalizing Iconicity
Edited byPamela Perniss, Olga Fischer & Christina Ljungberg
Metasex: The Discourse of Intimacy and Transgression
Edited by Anne Storch & Nico Nassenstein
Creativity in Language: Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 6:1 (2019)
Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Andrea Hollington, Nico Nassenstein & Anne Storch
Number – Constructions and Semantics: Case studies from Africa, Amazonia, India and Oceania
Edited by Anne Storch & Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Subjects Functional linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas: With special reference to Africa
Edited by Osamu Hieda, Christa König & Hiroshi Nakagawa
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Other African languages | Typology
Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Other African languages
2011. xviii, 421 pp. | text book
Transitivity: Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing
Edited by Patrick Brandt & Marco García García
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Coding Participant Marking: Construction types in twelve African languages
Edited by Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Other African languages | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Studies in African Linguistic Typology
Edited by F.K. Erhard Voeltz
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Other African languages | Typology
Dramatized Discourse: The Mandarin Chinese ba-construction
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
Subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax
From Letter to Sound: New perspectives on writing systems. Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 7:2 (2004)
Edited by Martin Neef & Beatrice Primus
Subjects Discourse studies | Language teaching | Pragmatics | Writing and literacy
Dependent-Head Synthesis in Nivkh: A contribution to a typology of polysynthesis
Johanna Mattissen
Subjects Linguistics of isolated languages | Morphology | Syntax | Typology
Multiple Wh-Fronting
Edited by Cedric Boeckx & Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax
Still More Englishes
Manfred Görlach
An Annotated Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Grammars of English
Manfred Görlach & Ian Michael
2026 Intonation contour length as a quantification of macro-rhythm
Keywords: macro-rhythm | prosodic typology | isochrony | f0 contour | contour length increase | Greek | German | European Portuguese | French | Seoul Korean
In: The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations[Studies in Language Companion Series, 240] pp. 397–428 | open access
2026 Bridging demonstratives in recognitional use
Keywords: demonstrative | recognitional use | bridging | definite article | evaluative adjective | metalinguistic judgement | acceptability task
In: The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations[Studies in Language Companion Series, 240] pp. 704–723 | open access
2026 Hierarchical discourse structure in spoken narratives
Keywords: spoken narratives | rhetorical relations | hierarchical structure | paragraph | under-described languages | Samoan | Chipaya
In: The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations[Studies in Language Companion Series, 240] pp. 724–754 | open access
2026 Reflections on literacy in language documentation
Keywords: spoken/written language | writing practices | literacies | language documentation | vernacular writing
In: The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations[Studies in Language Companion Series, 240] pp. 263–286 | open access
2026 Transcription practices and (the documentation of) metalinguistic knowledge
Keywords: transcription | nasalization | orthography | field methods | Papuan languages | Dene languages
In: The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations[Studies in Language Companion Series, 240] pp. 343–371 | open access
2026 Language change in real time: Investigating conversational priming in repetitional responses
Keywords: conversational priming | language change | repetitional responses | spread of linguistic innovations
In: The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations[Studies in Language Companion Series, 240] pp. 756–785 | open access
2026 On similarity, mistake, and belief revision: The case of yimarne(k) in Kunbarlang
Keywords: mistaken belief | similarity | multi-perspectival marker | Kunbarlang | Gunwinyguan | semblative | polyfunctionality | counterfactual | grammaticalization
In: The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations[Studies in Language Companion Series, 240] pp. 786–814 | open access
2026 Grammaticisation of medial speech verbs: A case study from Yali (West-New Guinea)
Keywords: grammaticisation of speech verbs | reported speech | clause chaining | quotative marking | NP marking | epistemic stance
In: The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations[Studies in Language Companion Series, 240] pp. 815–843 | open access
2026 Language archives in context
Keywords: research data | research infrastructure | methodology | linguistic evidence
In: The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations[Studies in Language Companion Series, 240] pp. 134–148 | open access
2026 Science in public: The representation of language documentation in science communication
Keywords: language documentation | science communication | public understanding of science | media representation | media discourse | topic modelling
In: The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations[Studies in Language Companion Series, 240] pp. 149–179 | open access
2026 Taking language use seriously: On the importance of multimodality and interaction in documentary practices
Keywords: language use | interaction | multimodality | gesture | sign language | language documentation
In: The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations[Studies in Language Companion Series, 240] pp. 182–209 | open access
2026 The multimodal turn in corpus building: Lessons from language documentation and sign language corpora
Keywords: multimodality | corpus building | language documentation | sign languages | multimodal feedback
In: The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations[Studies in Language Companion Series, 240] pp. 210–238 | open access
2024 Locative expressions and their semantic extensions in Tima
Keywords: auto-anonym | constructions | heterosemy | idioms | positional verbs | semantic extension | Tima | Katloid
2024 Introduction
Keywords: anthropological linguistics | historical contexts | new directions | decoloniality
In: Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa[Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 23] pp. 1–28 | open access
2024 On politeness and taboo among the Zande
Keywords: Pazande | taboo | politeness (strategies) | FTA | child-parent-interaction
In: Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa[Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 23] pp. 425–452 | open access
2024 The narrative of a witness: A conversation-analytic approach to Swahili
Keywords: conversation analysis | Swahili | Kenya | media | ritualization
In: Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa[Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 23] pp. 453–478 | open access
2024 A cautious approach to spatial orientation in Tima
Keywords: spatial reference | Tima (Niger-Congo)
In: Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa[Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 23] pp. 49–82 | open access
2024
Utu as epistemology and conviviality in Kiswahili
culture: Anthropological linguistic perspectives on living together
Keywords: humanity | proverbs | cultural knowledge | morality | ritual | conceptualization | reciprocal
In: Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa[Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 23] pp. 177–201 | open access
2024 Kin-relational expressions of the Tima (Nuba Mountains, Sudan)
Keywords: kinship | kin terms | social relations | Tima
In: Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa[Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 23] pp. 223–252 | open access
2024 Developing pragmatics in Spanish as an additional language: Enhancing pronunciation through multimodal cues
Keywords: pragmatic skills in Spanish as an additional language | ELE | multimodal communication | co-speech gestures | prosody | pronunciation teaching | habilidades pragmáticas en español como lengua adicional | ELE | comunicación multimodal | gestos coverbales | prosodia | enseñanza de la pronunciación
2024 Performances of transparency
Keywords: ergonyms | perfume labels | African perfumery | hospitality | colonial onomastics
2022 Empirical evidence for subtle gender biases in language
Keywords: gender | bias | gender-fair language | stereotype
2023 A corpus-based study of ‘Away gestures’ across four signed languages: DGS, LSC, LSFB and PJM
2021 On the rise of discourse markers
Keywords: cooptation | decategorialization | discourse grammar | discourse marker | grammaticalization | thetical
2020 Over-sensitivity to the animacy constraint on DOM in low proficient Turkish heritage speakers
Keywords: optionality | animacy gradience | semantics-morphosyntax interface | heritage language grammar
In:
The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 26] pp. 313–341
2020 Introduction
2020 Relating the evolution of Music-Readiness and Language-Readiness within the context of comparative neuroprimatology
2020 Convergence in the encoding of motion events in heritage Turkish in Germany: An acceptability study
2020 Case(mis)matching in German free relative clauses in the self-paced reading paradigm
2020 High sensitivity to conceptual cues in Turkish heritage speakers with dominant German L2: Comparing semantics–morphosyntax and pragmatics–morphosyntax interfaces
2019 The idea of a yell: On metapragmatic discourse
Keywords: secrecy | voice | metalinguistics | noise | Jukun
2018 Relating the evolution of Music-Readiness and Language-Readiness within the context of comparative neuroprimatology
2017 Introduction
2013 On the origin of Grammar
In: New Perspectives on the Origins of Language[Studies in Language Companion Series, 144] pp. 379–406
2012 On thetical grammar
Keywords: discourse grammar | situation of discourse | ellipsis | parenthetical | sentence grammar | thetical | cooptation
2008 Introduction
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