Friedrich Schiller University Jena

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena*

Language contact in the territory of the former Soviet Union

Edited by Diana Forker & Lenore A. Grenoble

Subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 50] 2021. | edited volume

Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English: A contribution to historical pragmatics

Edited by Ulrich Busse & Axel Hübler

Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 220] 2012. vii, 292 pp. | edited volume

A Typology of Purpose Clauses

Karsten Schmidtke-Bode

Subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Typological Studies in Language, 88] 2009. xii, 229 pp. | monograph

Anaphors in Text: Cognitive, formal and applied approaches to anaphoric reference

Edited by Monika Schwarz-Friesel, Manfred Consten & Mareile Knees

Subjects Cognitive linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 86] 2007. xvi, 282 pp. | edited volume

The Nonverbal Shift in Early Modern English Conversation

Axel Hübler

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

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 154] 2007. x, 281 pp. | monograph

From Sign to Signing

Wolfgang G. Müller & Olga Fischer

Subjects Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 3] 2003. xiv, 441 pp. | book

Diessel, Holger 2026 Construction families and grammatical paradigms — or why the constructicon needs horizontal relations

Keywords: Construction Grammar | usage-based | grammar network | horizontal relations | construction families | grammatical paradigms

In: Usage-based Perspectives on Language and Language Acquisition: In honour of Heike Behrens, Madlener-Charpentier, Karin, Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Mirjam Weder & Annelies Häcki Buhofer (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 35] pp. 141–167 | open access

Duran, Daniel, Melanie Weirich & Stefanie Jannedy 2025 Experimental assessment of phonetic register variation in situated interaction

Keywords: stylistic/intra-individual variation | speech register | phonetic detail | video-interaction task | formality | addressee | private/public space

Register Studies | Online First Publication, 46 pp. | article | open access

Persohn, Bastian & Antoinette Schapper 2025 Position-dependent polarity in the Alor-Pantar languages and its origins

Keywords: negation | phasal polarity | cyclicity | Timor-Alor-Pantar

Journal of Historical Linguistics | Online First Publication, 29 pp. | article | open access

Berrocal, Martina 2024 Maintaining political authority and credibility during the Covid-19 crisis: The case of Czech government press conferences

Keywords: discursive strategies | blame management | pandemic management | press conferences | Covid-19 | government communication

In: Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and Counter-Manipulation in Times of Crisis, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 339] pp. 119–156

Sperl, Laura, Anna Schroeger, Jürgen M. Kaufmann & Helene Kreysa 2024 Mental representation of words and concepts in late multilingualism: A replication and extension of the Revised Hierarchical Model

Keywords: Multilingualism | Revised Hierarchical Model | Conceptual Store | Mental Representation | Translation | Picture Naming

The Mental Lexicon 19:3 pp. 372–413 | article

Schwab, Sandra, Faustine Etter, Julie Kamber, Michael Mouthon, Lars Rogenmoser, Lea B. Jost & Jean-Marie Annoni 2024 The influence of linguistic and cognitive background on word stress processing in an unknown language

Keywords: lexical stress perception | unknown language | working memory capacity | musical aptitude | task complexity

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 10:2 pp. 204–231 | article

Fischer, Jens G., Bastian Persohn & Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun 2023 Phasal polarity in Tunisian Arabic

Keywords: Tunisian Arabic | phasal polarity | aspect | semantics | pragmatics

Studies in Language 48:1 pp. 121–180 | article

Zoller, Larissa Pia 2024 “If I had a shilling…”: Humorous structures and perceived funniness in Dame Sirith and Hans Sachs’ “Der fahrendt Schuler mit dem Teufelbannen”

Reinardus 35 pp. 210–229 | article

Breunesse, Merlijn & Holger Diessel 2023 Iconicity in spatial deixis: A cross-linguistic study of 180 demonstrative systems

Keywords: demonstratives | iconicity | spatial deixis

In: Reconnecting Form and Meaning: In honour of Kristin Davidse, Gentens, Caroline, Lobke Ghesquière, William B. McGregor & An Van linden (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 230] pp. 185–207

Berrocal, Martina & Aleksandra Salamurović 2023 Political speeches as a tool
of Covid19 crisis management?: Discursive and linguistic localization of the crisis in Central Europe and Western Balkans

Keywords: political speeches | pragmatics | speech acts | values | crisis communication | Covid19 | Central Europe | Western Balkans

In: Remedies against the Pandemic: How politicians communicate crisis management, Thielemann, Nadine & Daniel Weiss (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 102] pp. 44–74

Consten, Manfred 2023 Who creates reference?: Reference as an interactive procedure in discourse

Keywords: hearer | discourse | conversation | interaction | collaboration

In: Reference: From conventions to pragmatics, Gardelle, Laure, Laurence Vincent-Durroux & Hélène Vinckel-Roisin (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 228] pp. 269–285

Gast, Volker 2022 The German modal particle ja and selected English lexical correlates in the Europarl corpus: As you know, after all, of course, in fact and indeed

In: Particles in German, English and Beyond, Gergel, Remus, Ingo Reich & Augustin Speyer (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 224] pp. 117–146

Flaksman, Maria 2022 Echoes of the past: Old English onomatopoeia

In: Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems, Lenninger, Sara, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg & Elżbieta Tabakowska (eds.) [Iconicity in Language and Literature, 18] pp. 331–350

Oppermann, Sophia Jana 2021 “Non-coordinating UND” in Middle and Early New High German

Keywords: coordination | subordination | parataxis | hypotaxis | relative clauses | conjunctions

Journal of Historical Linguistics 11:2 pp. 159–208 | article

Comrie, Bernard, Diana Forker, Zaira Khalilova & Helma van den Berg† 2021 Antipassives in Nakh-Daghestanian languages: Exploring the margins of a construction

Keywords: antipassive | Nakh-Daghestanian languages | transitivity | aktionsart | canonical typology

In: Antipassive: Typology, diachrony, and related constructions, Janic, Katarzyna & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 130] pp. 515–548

Forker, Diana & Lenore Grenoble 2021 Introduction

In: Language contact in the territory of the former Soviet Union, Forker, Diana & Lenore A. Grenoble (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 50] pp. 1–14

Forker, Diana & Lenore Grenoble 2021 Some structural similarities in the outcomes of language contact with Russian

Keywords: matter borrowing | pattern borrowing | Russian | minority languages of Russia | Slavicization

In: Language contact in the territory of the former Soviet Union, Forker, Diana & Lenore A. Grenoble (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 50] pp. 259–288

Salamurović, Aleksandra 2020 Review of Metaphor, Nation and Discourse edited by Ljiljana Šarić & Mateusz-Milan Stanojević (2019)

Journal of Language and Politics 20:3 pp. 487–491 | book review

Flaksman, Maria 2020 Pathways of de-iconization: How borrowing, semantic evolution, and regular sound changes obscure iconicity

In: Operationalizing Iconicity, Perniss, Pamela, Olga Fischer & Christina Ljungberg (eds.) [Iconicity in Language and Literature, 17] p. 75

Kümmel, Martin Joachim 2020 The development of the perfect within IE verbal systems: An overview

Keywords: diachronic development | PIE perfect | monolectic periphrastic perfect | ergative-like | participle

In: Perfects in Indo-European languages and beyond, Crellin, Robert & Thomas Jügel (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 352] pp. 15–48

Forker, Diana 2020 More than just a modal particle: The enclitic =q’al in Sanzhi Dargwa

Functions of Language 27:3 pp. 340–372 | article

Salamurović, Aleksandra 2020 Viola, Lorella, and Andreas Musolff (eds.). 2019. Migration and Media. Discourses about identities in crisis

Journal of Language and Politics 19:4 pp. 720–724 | book review

Gast, Volker 2019 A corpus-based comparative study of concessive connectives in English, German and Spanish: The distribution of although, obwohl and aunque in the Europarl corpus

Keywords: concessivity | adversative | relativizing | rich annotation | information structure | position of subordinate clause

In: Empirical studies of the construction of discourse, Loureda, Óscar, Inés Recio Fernández, Laura Nadal & Adriana Cruz (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 305] pp. 151–192

Berrocal, Martina 2019 Constructing threat through quotes and historical analogies in the Czech and the US “Ukraine Discourse”

Keywords: Ukraine conflict | proximization | quotes | historical analogies | Czech | English | parliamentary debates | governmental statements

Journal of Language and Politics 18:6 pp. 870–892 | article

Forker, Diana 2019 Grammatical relations in Sanzhi Dargwa

In: Argument Selectors: A new perspective on grammatical relations, Witzlack-Mackarevich, Alena & Balthasar Bickel (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 123] p. 69

Haas, Florian 2018 “You can’t control a thing like that”: Genres and changes in Modern English human impersonal pronouns

In: Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change, Whitt, Richard J. (ed.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 85] pp. 171–194

Sarvasy, Hannah & Diana Forker 2018 Word hunters: Unsung heroes of linguistics

In: Word Hunters: Field linguists on fieldwork, Sarvasy, Hannah & Diana Forker (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 194] pp. 1–8

Comrie, Bernard, Diana Forker & Zaira Khalilova 2018 Affective constructions in Tsezic languages

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. 55–82

Kümmel, Martin Joachim 2017 Agricultural terms in Indo-Iranian

Keywords: Indo-Iranian | husbandry terms | plant cultivation | agricultural technology | pastoralist

In: Language Dispersal Beyond Farming, Robbeets, Martine & Alexander Savelyev (eds.)  pp. 275–290 | open access

Haas, Florian 2017 Motivating an English-German contrast in word-formation

Keywords: compounding | conversion | word-formation | English/German

Languages in Contrast 17:2 pp. 183–204 | article

Berrocal, Martina 2017 ‘Victim playing’ as a form of verbal aggression in the Czech parliament

Keywords: parliamentary discourse | verbal aggression | conflict | manipulation | positioning | victim playing

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 5:1 p. 81 | article

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

Schäfer, Martin 2015 Adverbs in unusual places

In: Adverbs: Functional and diachronic aspects, Pittner, Karin, Daniela Elsner & Fabian Barteld (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 170] pp. 239–272

Deringer, Lisa, Volker Gast, Florian Haas & Olga Rudolf 2015 Chapter 15. Impersonal uses of the second person singular and generalized empathy: An exploratory corpus study of English, German and Russian

In: The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns, Gardelle, Laure & Sandrine Sorlin (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 171] pp. 311–334

Gast, Volker 2015 On the use of translation corpora in contrastive linguistics: A case study of impersonalization in English and German

Keywords: impersonal | non-veridical | modal | generalizing | veridical | English/German

Languages in Contrast 15:1 p. 4 | 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

Lühr, Rosemarie 2013 Review of Indo-European syntax and pragmatics: Contrastive approaches edited by Eirik Welo (2011)

Diachronica 30:3 pp. 421–430 | book review

Bierkandt, Lennart 2012 Review of Clause linking and clause hierarchy edited by Isabelle Bril (2010)

Studies in Language 36:1 pp. 193–201 | book review

Hübler, Axel 2012 A lexical approach to paralinguistic communication of the past

In: Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English: A contribution to historical pragmatics, Busse, Ulrich & Axel Hübler (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 220] pp. 247–268

Diessel, Holger 2012 Bühler’s two-field theory of pointing and naming and the deictic origins of grammatical morphemes

In: Grammaticalization and Language Change: New reflections, Davidse, Kristin, Tine Breban, Lieselotte Brems, Tanja Mortelmans, Bert Cornillie, Hubert Cuyckens & Torsten Leuschner (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 130] pp. 37–50

Suitner, Caterina, Sabine C. Koch, Katharina Bachmeier & Anne Maass 2012 Chapter 10. Dynamic embodiment and its functional role: A body feedback perspective

Keywords: body feedback | body memory | dynamic embodiment | movement rhythms | spatial agency bias

In: Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement, Koch, Sabine C., Thomas Fuchs, Michela Summa & Cornelia Müller (eds.) [Advances in Consciousness Research, 84] pp. 155–170

Gast, Volker & Florian Haas 2011 On the distribution of subject properties in formulaic presentationals of Germanic and Romance: A diachronic-typological approach

In: Impersonal Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective, Malchukov, Andrej L. & Anna Siewierska (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 124] pp. 127–166

Müller, Wolfgang G. 2010 Metrical inversion and enjambment in the context of syntactic and morphological structures: Towards a poetics of verse

In: Signergy, Conradie, C. Jac, Ronél Johl, Marthinus Beukes, Olga Fischer & Christina Ljungberg (eds.) [Iconicity in Language and Literature, 9] pp. 347–363

Hübler, Axel 2010 The role of electronics in the perception of everyday narratives

In: Narrative Revisited: Telling a story in the age of new media, Hoffmann, Christian R. (ed.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 199] pp. 39–56

Diessel, Holger 2009 On the role of frequency and similarity in the acquisition of subject and non-subject relative clauses

In: Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution, Givón, T. & Masayoshi Shibatani (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 85] pp. 251–276

Lühr, Rosemarie 2008 Competitive Indo-European syntax

In: Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction, Ferraresi, Gisella & Maria Goldbach (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 302] pp. 121–159

Diessel, Holger 2006 Review of Noun Phrase Structure in the Languages of Europe edited by Frans Plank

Studies in Language 30:1 pp. 195–200 | book review

Hampe, Beate 2008 On the role of iconic motivation in conceptual metaphor: Has metaphor theory come full circle?

In: Outside-In — Inside-Out, Maeder, Costantino, Olga Fischer & William J. Herlofsky (eds.) [Iconicity in Language and Literature, 4] pp. 39–66

Ohme, Andreas 2008 Iconic representation of space and time in Vladimir Sorokin’s novel The Queue (Ochered’)

In: From Sign to Signing, Müller, Wolfgang G. & Olga Fischer[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 3] pp. 153–165

Fischer, Olga & Wolfgang G. Müller 2008 Introduction: From Signing back to Signs

In: From Sign to Signing, Müller, Wolfgang G. & Olga Fischer[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 3] pp. 1–20

Müller, Wolfgang G. 2008 Iconicity and rhetoric: A note on the iconic force of rhetorical figures in Shakespeare

In: The Motivated Sign, Fischer, Olga & Max Nänny (eds.) [Iconicity in Language and Literature, 2] pp. 305–322

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