Kiel University

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

A Layered Approach to Habitual Constructions

EditorSune Gregersen & Kees Hengeveld

Subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Typological Studies in Language, 136] 2026. | edited volume

Constructions in Contact 3: Constructional schemas and patterns in language contact

EditorHans C. Boas & Steffen Höder

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Multilingualism | Phonology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 40] 2025. | edited volume

Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages

Edited by Evie Coussé, Steffen Höder, Benjamin Lyngfelt & Julia Prentice

Subjects Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 37] 2023. | edited volume

New Englishes, New Methods: Methodological considerations

Edited by Guyanne Wilson & Michael Westphal

Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

[Varieties of English Around the World, G68] 2023. | edited volume

Constructions in Contact 2: Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition

Edited by Hans C. Boas & Steffen Höder

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Multilingualism | Theoretical linguistics

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 30] 2021. | edited volume

Constructions in Contact: Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages

Edited by Hans C. Boas & Steffen Höder

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 24] 2018. | edited volume

Literacy Acquisition in School in the Context of Migration and Multilingualism: A binational survey

Inken Sürig, Yazgül Şimşek, Christoph Schroeder & Anja Boness

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Writing and literacy

[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 5] 2016. xii, 297 pp. |

Stability and Divergence in Language Contact: Factors and Mechanisms

Edited by Kurt Braunmüller, Steffen Höder & Karoline Kühl

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Language Variation, 16] 2014. vi, 298 pp. |

Studies in West Frisian Grammar

Germen J. de Haan, Jarich Hoekstra, Willem Visser & Goffe Jensma

Subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 161] 2010. x, 384 pp. | edited volume

Embodiment in Cognition and Culture

Edited by John Michael Krois, Mats Rosengren, Angela Steidele & Dirk Westerkamp

Subjects Cognition and language | Consciousness research | Philosophy

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 71] 2007. xxii, 304 pp. | edited volume

Fang, Hongmei, Egbert Fortuin, Rene Genis, Riccardo Giomi, Sune Gregersen, Kees Hengeveld, Lois Kemp, Paula Kyselica, Ezra la Roi, Hella Olbertz, Eugenie Stapert, Jacques van der Vliet, Hein van der Voort, Sjaak de Wit, Arok Wolvengrey & Ewa Zakrzewska 2026 A layered approach to habitual constructions: Typological generalizations

In: A Layered Approach to Habitual Constructions, Gregersen, Sune & Kees Hengeveld (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 136] pp. 372–385

Anderwald, Lieselotte 2026 Studying the historical enregisterment of ain’t in nineteenth-century American newspapers

Keywords: ain’t | dialect grammar | enregisterment | newspapers | nineteenth-century American English | nonstandard English | stigmatization

In: Register and Discourse through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics, Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria, Dolores González-Álvarez & Esperanza Rama-Martínez (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 127] p. 91

Stapert, Eugénie 2026 The habitual construction in Dolgan

Keywords: habitual aspect | Dolgan | Turkic | Functional Discourse Grammar

In: A Layered Approach to Habitual Constructions, Gregersen, Sune & Kees Hengeveld (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 136] pp. 121–144

Boas, Hans C. & Steffen Höder 2025 Constructions in Contact 3: Constructional schemas and patterns in language contact

In: Constructions in Contact 3: Constructional schemas and patterns in language contact, Boas, Hans C. & Steffen Höder (eds.) [Constructional Approaches to Language, 40]

Boas, Hans C. & Steffen Höder 2025 Diasystematic Construction Grammar at work: The need for a non-modular, data-driven approach to multilingual grammar

Keywords: Language contact | language change | multilingualism | Diasystematic Construction Grammar | usage-based

In: Constructions in Contact 3: Constructional schemas and patterns in language contact, Boas, Hans C. & Steffen Höder (eds.) [Constructional Approaches to Language, 40] pp. 22–78

Hoekstra, Jarich 2025 Old West Frisian thēia*, Saterlandic taie and Modern West Frisian triuwe ‘to push’

In: Germanic Interrelations: Studies in memory of Hans Frede Nielsen, Laker, Stephen, Carla Falluomini, Steffen Krogh, Robert Nedoma & Michael Schulte (eds.) [NOWELE Supplement Series, 34] pp. 126–137 | open access

Hagel, Anna 2025 Schemas all the way down?: Exploring the notion of intra-word phonological schematicity in intercommunicative decoding

Keywords: phonological schematicity | Diasystematic Construction Grammar | submorphemic level | intercommunication | higher-order schemas

In: Constructions in Contact 3: Constructional schemas and patterns in language contact, Boas, Hans C. & Steffen Höder (eds.) [Constructional Approaches to Language, 40] pp. 291–317

Boas, Hans C. & Steffen Höder 2025 What makes Construction Grammar relevant for contact linguistics — and vice versa?

In: Constructions in Contact 3: Constructional schemas and patterns in language contact, Boas, Hans C. & Steffen Höder (eds.) [Constructional Approaches to Language, 40] pp. 1–21

Henzel, Katrin 2024 German traditions: Between author-centricity and dynamic texts

Keywords: textual growth | early Romanticism | Goethe | Nachlass | literary archive | historical-critical edition | genetic edition | author-centricity | nation building | the canon

In: A Comparative History of the Literary Draft in Europe, Beloborodova, Olga & Dirk Van Hulle (eds.) [Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXV] pp. 160–173 | open access

Igwebuike, Ebuka Elias 2023 Review of Political Myth-making, Populist Performance and Nationalist Resistance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah’s Construction of the African Unity Dream by Mark Nartey (2022)

Journal of Language and Politics 22:6 pp. 943–946 | book review

Coussé, Evie, Steffen Höder, Benjamin Lyngfelt & Julia Prentice 2023  Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages

In: Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages, Coussé, Evie, Steffen Höder, Benjamin Lyngfelt & Julia Prentice (eds.) [Constructional Approaches to Language, 37]

Coussé, Evie, Steffen Höder, Benjamin Lyngfelt & Julia Prentice 2023 Introduction: Nordic languages and construction grammar

In: Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages, Coussé, Evie, Steffen Höder, Benjamin Lyngfelt & Julia Prentice (eds.) [Constructional Approaches to Language, 37] pp. 1–23

Hagel, Anna 2023 One man’s [ɕœtː] is another man’s [kʰøð̞]: Sound correspondence constructions in Interscandinavian decoding

Keywords: Diasystematic Construction Grammar | receptive multilingualism | decoding | phonology | submorphemic level

In: Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages, Coussé, Evie, Steffen Höder, Benjamin Lyngfelt & Julia Prentice (eds.) [Constructional Approaches to Language, 37] pp. 55–80

Höder, Steffen 2023 The Devil is in the schema: A constructional perspective on Swedish taboo-avoiding strategies

Keywords: swearing | linguistic taboo | Swedish | Construction Grammar | phonological schematicity

In: Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages, Coussé, Evie, Steffen Höder, Benjamin Lyngfelt & Julia Prentice (eds.) [Constructional Approaches to Language, 37] p. 81

Igwebuike, Ebuka Elias & Lily Chimuanya 2023 Self-promotion, ideology and power in the social media posts of Nigerian Female Political Leaders

Keywords: self-promotion | positive self-presentation | female political leaders | social media posts | critical discourse analysis | language style | Nigeria

Journal of Language and Politics 23:1 pp. 67–90 | article

Gerwin, Johanna & Melanie Röthlisberger 2023 Dialectal ditransitive patterns in British English: Weighing sociolinguistic factors against language-internal constraints

Keywords: British English dialects | dative alternation | regional differences | dialectometry | alternative double object construction

In: Ditransitives in Germanic Languages: Synchronic and diachronic aspects, Zehentner, Eva, Melanie Röthlisberger & Timothy Colleman (eds.) [Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 7] pp. 195–225 | open access

Wilson, Guyanne & Michael Westphal 2023 Conclusion: New Englishes, new methods, new directions

In: New Englishes, New Methods: Methodological considerations, Wilson, Guyanne & Michael Westphal (eds.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G68] pp. 263–274

Westphal, Michael & Guyanne Wilson 2023 Creole and power: A Critical Discourse Analysis of legal cross‑examinations in ICE Jamaica and ICE Trinidad and Tobago

Keywords: New Englishes | Critical Discourse Analysis | International Corpus of English | language and law | legal cross-examinations | language and power | Jamaica | Trinidad | Creole

In: New Englishes, New Methods: Methodological considerations, Wilson, Guyanne & Michael Westphal (eds.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G68] p. 84

Wilson, Guyanne & Michael Westphal 2023 New Englishes new methods: An introduction

In: New Englishes, New Methods: Methodological considerations, Wilson, Guyanne & Michael Westphal (eds.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G68] pp. 1–14

Wilson, Guyanne & Michael Westphal 2023 New Englishes, new methods: Methodological considerations

In: New Englishes, New Methods: Methodological considerations, Wilson, Guyanne & Michael Westphal (eds.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G68]

Westphal, Michael 2023 The use and perception of question tags in Trinidadian English

Keywords: pragmatic markers | question tags | Trinidad | International Corpus of English | corpus-pragmatics | language attitudes

Pragmatics 35:1 pp. 101–128 | article

Vanselow, Wendy 2022 Amrum und seine BewohnerInnen in der amrumerfriesischen Dramenliteratur von Thea Andresen und Annegret Lutz

In: From West to North Frisia: A Journey along the North Sea Coast. Frisian studies in honour of Jarich Hoekstra, Walker, Alastair, Eric Hoekstra, Goffe Jensma, Wendy Vanselow, Willem Visser & Christoph Winter (eds.) [NOWELE Supplement Series, 33] pp. 375–394 | open access

Li, Lijun, Eliane Lorenz & Peter Siemund 2022 The ages of pragmatic particles in Colloquial Singapore English: A corpus study based on oral history interviews

Keywords: Colloquial Singapore English | diachronic reconstruction | Oral History Interviews | pragmatic particles

English World-Wide 44:1 p. 91 | article

Daugs, Robert 2021 Contractions, constructions and constructional change: Investigating the constructionhood of English modal contractions from a diachronic perspective

Keywords: modal contractions | Construction Grammar | constructional change | COHA

In: Modality and Diachronic Construction Grammar, Hilpert, Martin, Bert Cappelle & Ilse Depraetere (eds.) [Constructional Approaches to Language, 32] pp. 13–52

Hoekstra, Jarich 2021 On the fringe between West and North Germanic: Early language contact between North Frisian and Danish

NOWELE 74:1 pp. 131–151 | article

Höder, Steffen, Julia Prentice & Sofia Tingsell 2021 Additional language acquisition as emerging multilingualism: A Construction Grammar approach

Keywords: Diasystematic Construction Grammar | additional language acquisition | multilingualism | entrenchment

In: Constructions in Contact 2: Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition, Boas, Hans C. & Steffen Höder (eds.) [Constructional Approaches to Language, 30] pp. 309–337

Boas, Hans C. & Steffen Höder 2021 Constructions in contact 2: Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition

In: Constructions in Contact 2: Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition, Boas, Hans C. & Steffen Höder (eds.) [Constructional Approaches to Language, 30] p.  ff.

Urban, Aileen 2021 Idioconstructions in conflict: Ad hoc generalization in multilingual speech processing

Keywords: Construction Grammar | Diasystematic Construction Grammar | language contact | multilingualism | multilingual practices | multilingual speech processing | cognition | conceptual integration

In: Constructions in Contact 2: Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition, Boas, Hans C. & Steffen Höder (eds.) [Constructional Approaches to Language, 30] pp. 17–53

Igwebuike, Ebuka Elias 2021 Verbal horror and slaughterhouse imagery in media representation of herdsmen violence

Keywords: critical discourse analysis | appraisal framework | herdsmen violence socio-cognitive labelling | media reports

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 11:1 pp. 25–47 | article

Boas, Hans C. & Steffen Höder 2021 Widening the scope: Recent trends in constructional contact linguistics

In: Constructions in Contact 2: Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition, Boas, Hans C. & Steffen Höder (eds.) [Constructional Approaches to Language, 30] pp. 1–13

Hagel, Anna 2021 Strange sounds, familiar words: Interlingual decoding from a CxG perspective

Keywords: Diasystematic Construction Grammar | receptive multilingualism | decoding | phonology | submorphemic level | Scandinavian languages

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 34 pp. 122–134 | article

Anderwald, Lieselotte 2020 The myth of American English gotten as a historical retention

In: Late Modern English: Novel encounters, Kytö, Merja & Erik Smitterberg (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 214] pp. 67–90

Daugs, Robert 2020  Revisiting global and intra-categorial frequency shifts in the English modals: A usage-based, constructionist view on the heterogeneity of modal development

Keywords: modal constructions | contractions | diachronic Construction Grammar | COHA | COCA

In: Re-assessing Modalising Expressions: Categories, co-text, and context, Hohaus, Pascal & Rainer Schulze (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 216] pp. 19–46

Anderwald, Lieselotte 2020 American English gotten : Historical retention, change from below, or something else?

Keywords: American English | language change | COHA | AHN | past participle gotten

In: Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts: In honor of Merja Kytö, Jonsson, Ewa & Tove Larsson (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 97] pp. 187–204

Mosel, Ulrike 2017 Teop – an Oceanic language with multifunctional verbs, nouns and adjectives

Keywords: conversion | modification | multifuntionality | phrase types | word classes

Studies in Language 41:2 pp. 255–293 | article

Höder, Steffen 2016 Phonological elements and Diasystematic Construction Grammar

Keywords: contact-induced change | Diasystematic Construction Grammar | language contact | multilingualism | phonology

In: Constructions across Grammars, Hilpert, Martin & Jan-Ola Östman (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 82] pp. 67–96

Bickel, Balthasar, Taras Zakharko, Lennart Bierkandt & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich 2016 Semantic role clustering: An empirical assessment of semantic role types in non-default case assignment

In: Advances in Research on Semantic Roles, Kittilä, Seppo & Fernando Zúñiga (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 88] pp. 51–78

Meyer, Matthias 2015 Passives of so-called ‘ditransitives’ in nineteenth century and present-day Canadian English

In: Grammatical Change in English World-Wide, Collins, Peter (ed.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 67] pp. 147–178

Anderwald, Lieselotte 2014 “Pained the eye and stunned the ear”: Language ideology and the progressive passive in the nineteenth century

In: Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English, Pfenninger, Simone E., Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Marianne Hundt & Daniel Schreier (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 159] pp. 113–136

Höder, Steffen 2015 Phonological elements and Diasystematic Construction Grammar

Keywords: language contact | phonology | multilingualism | contact-induced change | Diasystematic Construction Grammar

Constructions and Frames 6:2 pp. 202–231 | article

Bickel, Balthasar, Taras Zakharko, Lennart Bierkandt & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich 2014 Semantic role clustering: An empirical assessment of semantic role types in non-default case assignment

Studies in Language 38:3 pp. 485–511 | article

Anderwald, Lieselotte 2013 Natural language change or prescriptive influence?: Throve, dove, pled, drug and snuck in 19th-century American English

Keywords: regular and irregular verbs | morphological variation | prescriptivism | historical American English | language change | English grammar writing

English World-Wide 34:2 pp. 146–176 | article

Haig, Geoffrey L.J. 2011 Review of The typology of semantic alignment edited by Mark Donohue & Søren Wichmann (2008)

Studies in Language 34:3 pp. 689–698 | book review

Mehlig, Hans Robert 2008 8. Aspect and bounded quantity complements in Russian

In: Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect, Rothstein, Susan (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 110] pp. 257–290

Claridge, Claudia 2008 Conditionals in Early Modern English texts

In: Connectives in the History of English, Lenker, Ursula & Anneli Meurman-Solin (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 283] pp. 229–254

Haig, Geoffrey L.J. 2005 Review of Language Contacts in Prehistory: Studies in linguistic stratigraphy edited by Henning Andersen (2003)

Diachronica 22:1 pp. 177–184 | book review

Hoekstra, Jarich 2004  Alles is fleurich, ik bin it mei : On the comitative particle mei in Frisian and its counterparts in the other Germanic languages

Linguistics in the Netherlands 21:1 pp. 114–124 | article | open access

Braun, Friederike 2008 Turkish. The communication of gender in Turkish

In: Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 1, Hellinger, Marlis & Hadumod Bußmann (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 9] pp. 283–310

Sigurdsson, Halldór Ármann 1988 Review of Topics in Scandinavian syntax edited by Lars Hellan & Kirsti Koch Christensen (1986)

Studies in Language 12:1 pp. 209–223 | book review

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