Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin*
Drawing attention to metaphor: Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities
Edited by Camilla Di Biase-Dyson & Markus Egg
Subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
Visually Situated Language Comprehension
Edited by Pia Knoeferle, Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck & Matthew W. Crocker
Exaptation and Language Change
Edited by Muriel Norde & Freek Van de Velde
Subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Evaluation of Language Regimes: Theory and application to multilingual patent organisations
Michele Gazzola
Rethinking Narrative Identity: Persona and Perspective
Edited by Claudia Holler & Martin Klepper
Bi-Directionality in the Cognitive Sciences: Avenues, challenges, and limitations
Edited by Marcus Callies, Wolfram R. Keller & Astrid Lohöfer
[Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 30] 2011. viii, 313 pp. | edited volume
The Expression of Information Structure: A documentation of its diversity across Africa
Edited by Ines Fiedler & Anne Schwarz
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Embodiment in Cognition and Culture
Edited by John Michael Krois, Mats Rosengren, Angela Steidele & Dirk Westerkamp
Subjects Cognition and language | Consciousness research | Philosophy
Pronouns – Grammar and Representation
Edited by Horst J. Simon & Heike Wiese
Subjects Psycholinguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Typology
2026 Pauses, parts of speech, and word order: A comparative corpus study on 27 languages
Keywords: pauses | parts of speech | word order | comparative corpus linguistics | affixation asymmetries
In: The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations[Studies in Language Companion Series, 240] pp. 376–396 | open access
2026 Adverb placement and V-raising in heritage Greek
Keywords: adverbs | V-raising | heritage Greek | interference | V2
In: Adverbs and Particles at the Form-Meaning Interface[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 292] pp. 200–215
2026 Multimodal communication in historical perspective: Gestures and visual prominence in Pharaonic Egyptian monumental inscriptions
Keywords: multimodality | gesture | emblems | performative gesture | semantic macrostructure | information packaging | Ancient Egyptian | monumental inscription | text-image-composition | hieroglyphic script
In: The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations[Studies in Language Companion Series, 240] pp. 239–262 | open access
2024 An ethnographic Linguistic Landscape analysis of a Berlin street market: Exploring language attitudes through market signs
2024 The cycle of applicative in Tibetic: Lexicalization, grammaticalization and pragmaticization
2022 De/legitimising EUrope through the performance of crises: The far-right Alternative for Germany on “climate hysteria” and “corona hysteria”
Keywords: Critical Discourse Analysis | Critical Discourse Studies | narrative | far right | radical right | climate change | global warming | nationalism | COVID-19 | European Union
2022 “Die Blumenzeit der Frau”: A corpus-based study of the development of medical references to menstruation in historical texts on herbology
Keywords: variation | corpus linguistics | technical terms | terminology | language change | lexicon
In: Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 330] pp. 153–176
2021 Challenges and solutions in test adaption: Comparing international experiences with the British Sign Language Production Test (Narrative
Skills)
2020 Metaphor and the popularization of contested technologies
Keywords: ethics | human biotechnology | magazines | high quality newspaper | systematic metaphor analysis | functional content | expert authors | context specific analysis | cross domain mapping | semantic transfer
In: How Metaphors Guide, Teach and Popularize Science[Figurative Thought and Language, 6] pp. 113–139 | open access
2020 Boundaries at play:
Se in the Spanish psych domain
Keywords: psych verbs | Spanish | cliticization | left-bounded states | reflexive | HPSG
2019 Expressing possibility in two Oceanic languages
Keywords: modality | possibility | grammaticalization | Oceanic
2020 The multidimensionality of pointing
Keywords: gesture form | imaginary forms | geometry | taxonomy | classification | deixis | iconicity
2018 Roman Jakobson
2017 Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Sign-Based Construction Grammar, and Fluid Construction Grammar: Commonalities and differences
2015 On the syntactic nature of the Dutch prefix
Keywords: morphology | syntax | Dutch prefixes | predication
2013 Intermingling speech groups: Morpho-syntactic outcomes of language contact in a linguistic area in Burkina Faso, West Africa
Keywords: contact-induced change | extra-linguistic parameters | Nothern Samo | Pana
In: The Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact Settings[Studies in Language Variation, 12] pp. 107–134
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