Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf*

Walking on the grammaticalization path of the definite article: Functional main and side roads

Edited by Renata Szczepaniak & Johanna Flick

Subjects Discourse studies | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax

[Studies in Language Variation, 23] 2020. | edited volume

On the Role of Pragmatics in Construction Grammar: Special issue of Constructions and Frames 11:2 (2019)

Edited by Rita Finkbeiner

Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Constructions and Frames, 11:2] 2019. | special issue

Frames of Understanding in Text and Discourse: Theoretical foundations and descriptive applications

Alexander Ziem

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics

[Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 48] 2014. xii, 428 pp. |

Genres in the Internet: Issues in the theory of genre

Edited by Janet Giltrow & Dieter Stein

Subjects Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 188] 2009. ix, 294 pp. | edited volume

Email Hoaxes: Form, function, genre ecology

Theresa Heyd

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 174] 2008. vii, 239 pp. | monograph

Language Attrition: Theoretical perspectives

Edited by Barbara Köpke, Monika S. Schmid, Merel Keijzer & Susan Dostert

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Bilingualism, 33] 2007. viii, 258 pp. | edited volume

What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics: The case of innateness

Edited by Martina Penke & Anette Rosenbach

Subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Benjamins Current Topics, 7] 2007. x, 297 pp. | edited volume

Clitics between Syntax and Lexicon

Birgit Gerlach

Subjects Generative linguistics | Morphology | Romance linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 51] 2002. xii, 282 pp. | monograph

Clitics in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax

Edited by Birgit Gerlach & Janet Grijzenhout

Subjects Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 36] 2001. xii, 441 pp. | edited volume

Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English

Edited by Olga Fischer, Anette Rosenbach & Dieter Stein

Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 53] 2000. x, 391 pp. | edited volume

Translating the Elusive: Marked word order and subjectivity in English-German translation

Monika S. Schmid

Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Translation Studies

[Benjamins Translation Library, 36] 1999. xii, 174 pp. | monograph

Historical Linguistics 1997: Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, 10–17 August 1997

Edited by Monika S. Schmid, Jennifer R. Austin & Dieter Stein

Subjects Historical linguistics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 164] 1998. x, 409 pp. | edited volume

The Virtues of Language: History in language, linguistics and texts. Papers in memory of Thomas Frank

Edited by Dieter Stein & Rosanna Sornicola

Subjects English literature & literary studies | Historical linguistics | History of linguistics

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 87] 1998. viii, 232 pp. | edited volume

Inversion in Modern English: Form and function

Heidrun Dorgeloh

Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 6] 1997. x, 236 pp. | monograph

Child Language and Developmental Dysphasia: Linguistic studies of the acquisition of German

AuthorHarald Clahsen, TranslatorKarin Richman

Subjects Germanic linguistics | Language acquisition | Neurolinguistics

[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 2] 1991. x, 350 pp. | monograph

Rüter, Lara & Ingo Plag 2025 Measuring the similarity between languages: The case of creoles and non-creoles

Keywords: typology | similiarity | creole | non-creole | phylogenetic network | statistical modeling | APiCS, WALS

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages | Online First Publication, 36 pp. | article

Plag, Ingo, Maria Heitmeier & Frank Domahs 2025 Morpho-phonology is not independent of semantics: The case of German nominal number marking

Keywords: number inflection | discriminative learning | semantic vectors | morpho-phonology | German

The Mental Lexicon | Online First Publication, 34 pp. | article

Krajinović, Ana, Jozina Vander Klok & Kilu von Prince 2025 When (not) to establish a new category: The case of perfect, ‘already’ and iamitives

Keywords: aspect | perfect | already | iamitive | linguistic category | Austronesian

Studies in Language 49:3 pp. 546–586 | article | open access

Müller, Hanno, Louis ten Bosch & Mirjam Ernestus 2025 Can the Discriminative Lexicon Model account for the family size effect in auditory word recognition?

Keywords: family size | Discriminative Lexicon Model | auditory word recognition | morphological processing | lexical decision

Nota Bene 1:2 pp. 176–192 | article | open access

Hartmann, Stefan, Sławomir Wacewicz, Andrea Ravignani, Daria Valente, Evelina Daniela Rodrigues, Rie Asano & Yannick Jadoul 2024 Delineating the field of language evolution research: A quantitative analysis of peer-review patterns at the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE 2022)

Keywords: conference on language evolution | language | language evolution | research topics | controversies

Interaction Studies 25:1 pp. 100–117 | article

Hartmann, Stefan & Olaf Mikkelsen 2024 Future constructions in English and Norwegian: A contrastive corpus study

Keywords: future constructions | alternations | English/Norwegian

Languages in Contrast 24:2 pp. 170–196 | article

Hartmann, Stefan 2024 Open Corpus Linguistics – or How to overcome common problems in dealing with corpus data by adopting open research practices

Keywords: replicability | open research | accessibility | transparency | representativeness

In: Challenges in corpus linguistics: Rethinking corpus compilation and analysis, Kaunisto, Mark & Marco Schilk (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 118] p. 89

Nowak, Jessica & Stefan Hartmann 2024 The rise and fall of sentence-internal capitalization in English: A corpus-based approach

Keywords: sentence-internal capitalization | orthography | grammaticography | animacy graphematics | spelling | English | German | Dutch

In: Unlocking the History of English: Pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types. Selected papers from the 21st ICEHL, Caon, Luisella, Moragh S. Gordon & Thijs Porck (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 364] pp. 33–59

van de Pol-Tegge, Anja 2023 Cultural transfer and the sociology of translation: A processual approach

Keywords: cultural transfer | sociology of translation | cultural turn | sociological turn | imagology | Dutch literature | Belgian literatures | German literary translation

Translation in Society 2:2 pp. 146–166 | article | open access

Plag, Ingo, Maria Heitmeier & Frank Domahs 2024 German nominal number interpretation in an impaired mental lexicon: A naive discriminative learning perspective

Keywords: number inflection | discriminative learning | morpho-phonology | aphasia | German

The Mental Lexicon 18:3 pp. 417–445 | article

Czulo, Oliver, Alexander Willich, Alexander Ziem & Tiago T. Torrent 2023 A multilingual approach to the interaction between frames and constructions: Towards a joint framework and methodology

Keywords: contrastive linguistics | translation studies | frame-construction interaction | multilingual constructicography

Constructions and Frames 15:1 pp. 59–90 | article

Symanczyk Joppe, Vilma 2023 ‘Optional’ direct objects: Free variation?

Keywords: valency | constructions | null instantiations | direct objects | free variation | complementary distribution | partially equivalent distribution | acceptability judgements

In: Free Variation in Grammar: Empirical and theoretical approaches to optionality in grammar, Kopf, Kristin & Thilo Weber (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 234] p. 99 | open access

Osswald, Rainer & Robert D. Van Valin 2022 The description of transitive directed motion in Lakhota (Siouan)

Keywords: causation | deictic motion | Lakhota | multi-verb construction | Siouan | transitive motion

In: Neglected Aspects of Motion Events Description: Deixis, asymmetries, constructions, Sarda, Laure & Benjamin Fagard (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 72] pp. 209–233

Mikkelsen, Olaf & Stefan Hartmann 2022 Competing future constructions and the Complexity Principle: A contrastive outlook

Keywords: future constructions | alternations | complexity principle | comparative linguistics

In: Broadening the Spectrum of Corpus Linguistics: New approaches to variability and change, Flach, Susanne & Martin Hilpert (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 105] p. 9

Coulmas, Florian 2022 Identity

In: Handbook of Pragmatics: 24th Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola & Jef Verschueren (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics, 24] pp. 171–186

Engemann, Marie & Ingo Plag 2021 Phonetic reduction and paradigm uniformity effects in spontaneous speech

Keywords: paradigm uniformity | acoustic duration | morphology | articulation | phonetic reduction

The Mental Lexicon 16:1 pp. 165–198 | article

Heine, Bernd, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva & Haiping Long 2021 On the rise of discourse markers

Keywords: cooptation | decategorialization | discourse grammar | discourse marker | grammaticalization | thetical

In: Studies at the Grammar-Discourse Interface: Discourse markers and discourse-related grammatical phenomena, Haselow, Alexander & Sylvie Hancil (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 219] pp. 23–56

Neumann, Birgit 2021 Realism and postcolonial subjectivity in the Black British Bildungsroman

Keywords: Monica Ali | realism | modernism | postcolonial criticism | Bildungsroman | representation

In: Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives. Volume I: Mapping realism, Göttsche, Dirk, Rosa Mucignat & Robert Weninger (eds.) [Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXII] pp. 735–749

Nieder, Jessica, Ruben van de Vijver & Holger Mitterer 2021 Priming Maltese plurals: Representation of sound and broken plurals in the mental lexicon

Keywords: cross-modal priming | Maltese plurals | morphological processing | single-mechanism | word and paradigm

The Mental Lexicon 16:1 pp. 69–97 | article

Barteld, Fabian & Alexander Ziem 2021 Construction mining: Identifying construction candidates for the German constructicon

Keywords: German constructicon | construction mining | patterns | n-gram | UIF-PMI | constructicography

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 34 p. 5 | article

Koch, Nikolas, Antje Endesfelder Quick & Stefan Hartmann 2021 Individual differences in discourse priming: A traceback approach

Keywords: language acquisition | construction priming | traceback | usage-based model

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 34 pp. 186–198 | article

Szczepaniak, Renata & Johanna Flick 2020 Walking on the grammaticalization path of the definite article: Functional main and side roads

In: Walking on the grammaticalization path of the definite article: Functional main and side roads, Szczepaniak, Renata & Johanna Flick (eds.) [Studies in Language Variation, 23] p.  ff.

Stein, Dieter 2020 Atomizing linguistic change: A radical view

Keywords: Atomistic | Micro-history of change | Inter-subjectivity | Morphosyntactic change | Onset context | Coercion | Real-time pragmatics | Construction grammar | Emergent | Invisible hand | Comprehensible input | Semiosis | Do-support | Extravagant progressive

In: Historical Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July–4 August 2017, Drinka, Bridget (ed.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 350] pp. 317–340

Heine, Bernd, Tania Kuteva & Haiping Long 2020 Dual process frameworks on reasoning and linguistic discourse: A comparison

Keywords: analyzability | coherence | context | control | intuitive behavior | macrostructure | microstructure | reflective behavior

In: Grammar and Cognition: Dualistic models of language structure and language processing, Haselow, Alexander & Gunther Kaltenböck (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 70] pp. 59–89

Szczepaniak, Renata & Johanna Flick 2020 Introduction: Walking on the grammaticalization path of the definite article – functional main and side roads

In: Walking on the grammaticalization path of the definite article: Functional main and side roads, Szczepaniak, Renata & Johanna Flick (eds.) [Studies in Language Variation, 23] pp. 1–14

Balogh, Kata 2020 Additive particle uses in Hungarian: A Role and Reference Grammar account

Keywords: additive particles | Hungarian | Role and Reference Grammar

Studies in Language 45:2 pp. 428–469 | article

Ungerer, Tobias & Stefan Hartmann 2021 Delineating extravagance: Assessing speakers’ perceptions of imaginative constructional patterns

Keywords: extravagance | construction grammar | defining features | rating study

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 34 pp. 345–356 | article

Pleyer, Michael & Stefan Hartmann 2021 Construction grammar for monkeys?: Animal communication and its implications for language evolution in the light of usage-based linguistic theory

Keywords: construction grammar | language evolution | animal communication | usage-based linguistics

Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 2:2 pp. 153–194 | article

Heine, Bernd, Gunther Kaltenböck & Tania Kuteva 2020 On the status of wh-exclamatives in English

Functions of Language 27:2 pp. 207–233 | article

Nuhn, Patrick 2019 Reversed ang-inversion and narrow focus marking in Tagalog

Keywords: Tagalog | information structure | focus | inversion constructions | fronting constructions | syntax-discourse interface

Studies in Language 43:2 pp. 469–497 | article

Gahl, Susanne & Ingo Plag 2019 Spelling errors in English derivational suffixes reflect morphological boundary strength: A case study

Keywords: spelling | misspellings | derivation | affixes | orthography | morphological boundaries | morphology

The Mental Lexicon 14:1 pp. 1–36 | article | open access

Kuteva, Tania, Bas Aarts, Gergana Popova & Anvita Abbi 2020 The grammar of ‘non-realization’

Keywords: apprehensional | avertive | frustrated initiation | frustrated completion | inconsequential | linguistic categorization | semantically elaborate grammatical categories

Studies in Language 43:4 pp. 850–895 | article

Finkbeiner, Rita 2019 Reflections on the role of pragmatics in Construction Grammar

Constructions and Frames 11:2 pp. 171–192 | introduction

Günther, Christine 2018 The rich, the poor, the obvious: Arguing for an ellipsis analysis of “adjectives used as nouns”

Keywords: nounless noun phrases | ellipsis in noun phrases | silent nouns | conversion of adjectives | English-German grammatical differences

In: The noun phrase in English: Past and present, Leung, Alex Ho-Cheong & Wim van der Wurff (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 246] p. 77

Van Valin, Robert D. 2018 Dative case and oblique subjects

In: Non-canonically case-marked subjects: The Reykjavík-Eyjafjallajökull papers, Barðdal, Jóhanna, Na’ama Pat-El & Stephen Mark Carey (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 200] pp. 115–132

Wunderli, Peter 2018 Saussure: Le large éventail de ses intérêts

Historiographia Linguistica 45:1/2 pp. 211–224 | book review

Bohnemeyer, Jürgen & Robert D. Van Valin 2017 The macro-event property and the layered structure of the clause

Keywords: event representation | macro-event property | verbal core | layered structure of the clause | role and reference grammar | control | juncture | nexus | cosubordination | Ewe | Japanese | English | converb constructions | serial verb constructions | infinitival complements

Studies in Language 41:1 pp. 142–197 | article

Heine, Bernd, Gunther Kaltenböck & Tania Kuteva 2016 Chapter 2. On insubordination and cooptation

In: Insubordination, Evans, Nicholas & Honoré Watanabe (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 115] pp. 39–64

Schenner, Mathias & Frank Sode 2014 Modal particles in causal clauses: The case of German weil wohl

In: Modes of Modality: Modality, typology, and universal grammar, Leiss, Elisabeth & Werner Abraham (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 149] pp. 291–316

Gamerschlag, Thomas 2014 Stative dimensional verbs in German

Keywords: stative verbs | German | dimensions | frame semantics | attributes

Studies in Language 38:2 pp. 275–334 | article

Wunderli, Peter 2013  Saussure – ou la mer à boire

Historiographia Linguistica 40:1/2 pp. 229–247 | review article

Van Valin Jr., Robert D. 2012 Some issues in the linking between syntax and semantics in relative clauses

In: Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas: A typological overview, Comrie, Bernard & Zarina Estrada-Fernández (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 102] pp. 47–64

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

Werning, Markus 2010 The "complex first" paradox: Why do semantically thick concepts so early lexicalize as nouns?

In: The Emergence of Protolanguage: Holophrasis vs compositionality, Arbib, Michael A. & Derek Bickerton (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 24] pp. 67–82

Giltrow, Janet & Dieter Stein 2009 Genres in the Internet: Innovation, evolution, and genre theory

In: Genres in the Internet: Issues in the theory of genre, Giltrow, Janet & Dieter Stein (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 188] pp. 1–26

Puschmann, Cornelius 2009 Lies at Wal-Mart: Style and the subversion of genre in the Life at Wal-Mart blog

In: Genres in the Internet: Issues in the theory of genre, Giltrow, Janet & Dieter Stein (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 188] pp. 49–84

Löbner, Sebastian 2008 Lexical semantics

In: Unity and Diversity of Languages, van Sterkenburg, Piet (ed.)  pp. 189–200

Diedrichsen, Elke 2008 Where is the precore slot? Mapping the layered structure of the clause and German sentence topology

In: Investigations of the Syntax–Semantics–Pragmatics Interface, Van Valin Jr., Robert D. (ed.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 105] pp. 203–224

Werning, Markus 2008 The “complex first” paradox: Why do semantically thick concepts so early lexicalize as nouns?

Keywords: substance | modularity | lexical decomposition | neural synchronization | complexity | frames | oscillatory networks | evolution of language | concept | noun | compositionality | meaning

Interaction Studies 9:1 pp. 67–83 | article

Stein, Dieter 2007 Review of Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England by Terttu Nevalainen & Helena Raumolin-Brunberg (2003)

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 8:1 pp. 143–146 | book review

Wunderlich, Dieter 2008 Why assume UG?

In: What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina & Anette Rosenbach (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 7] pp. 147–174

Bergs, Alexander 2004 Letters: A new approach to text typology

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 5:2 pp. 207–227 | article

Wunderlich, Dieter 2004 Why assume UG?

Studies in Language 28:3 pp. 615–641 | article

Adone, Dany 2003 Review of Diathesen im Mauritius- und SeychellenKreol. ScriptOralia 88 by Sibylle Kriegel & Gunter Narr Verlag (1996)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 18:1 pp. 141–146 | book review

Heine, Bernd & Tania Kuteva 2003 On contact-induced grammaticalization

Studies in Language 27:3 pp. 529–572 | article

Gerlach, Birgit 2002 Review of Approaches to the Typology of Word Classes edited by Petra M. Vogel & Bernard Comrie (2000)

Studies in Language 25:3 pp. 663–679 | book review

Gerlach, Birgit & Janet Grijzenhout 2008 Clitics from different perspectives

In: Clitics in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax, Gerlach, Birgit & Janet Grijzenhout (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 36] pp. 1–29

Ortmann, Albert & Alexandra Popescu 2008 Romanian definite articles are not clitics

In: Clitics in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax, Gerlach, Birgit & Janet Grijzenhout (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 36] pp. 295–324

Rosenbach, Anette 2008 The English s-genitive: Animacy, topicality and possessive relationship in a diachronic perspective

In: Historical Linguistics 1999: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9–13 August 1999, Brinton, Laurel J. (ed.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 215] pp. 277–292

Wunderlich, Dieter 2008 Two comparatives

In: Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse: A Festschrift for Ferenc Kiefer, Kenesei, István & Robert M. Harnish (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 90] pp. 75–89

Adone, Dany 2001 Review of Lesser Antillean French Creole and Universal Grammar by Karl Erland Gadelii (1997)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 15:2 pp. 408–411 | book review

Fischer, Olga & Anette Rosenbach 2003 Introduction

In: Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English, Fischer, Olga, Anette Rosenbach & Dieter Stein (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 53] pp. 1–37

Golston, Chris 1995 Review of English phonology: An introduction by Heinz J. Giegerich (1992)

Studies in Language 19:1 pp. 239–244 | book review

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