Search Results - "Hopper, Paul J"

Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure by Bybee, Joan, Hopper, Paul J

“…A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as…”
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Linguistics and Micro-Rhetoric: A Twenty-First Century Encounter by Hopper, Paul J.

“…Increasingly linguists look to usage for explanations of how patterns of forms come to acquire grammatical status. This search leads linguistics closer to the…”
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Discourse and the category ‘verb’ in English by Hopper, Paul J.

“…Explores the consequences of an implicit theoretical assumption for discourse analysis and argues that the traditional notion of verb as a simple word class is…”
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SOME RECENT TRENDS IN GRAMMATICALIZATION by Hopper, Paul J

“…Grammaticalization-the transformation of lexical items and phrases into grammatical forms-has been the focus of considerable study. Two chief directions can be…”
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The Discourse Basis for Lexical Categories in Universal Grammar by Hopper, Paul J., Thompson, Sandra A.

“…Most linguists who have investigated linguistic categories from a universal viewpoint have accepted the existence of two basic parts of speech, NOUN and VERB…”
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Language Universals, Discourse Pragmatics, and Semantics by Hopper, Paul J, Thompson, Sandra A

“…Examination of a range of cross-linguistic generalizations leads to the view that grammar is primarily shaped by the entire range of cognitive, social, and…”
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Winfred P. Lehmann (23 June 1916-1 Aug. 2007) by Hopper, Paul J.

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In Memoriam by Hopper, Paul J.

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Transitivity in Grammar and Discourse by Hopper, Paul J., Thompson, Sandra A.

“…Transitivity involves a number of components, only one of which is the presence of an object of the verb. These components are all concerned with the…”
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The Limits of Grammaticalization by Claudi, Ulrike

“…"The limits of grammaticalization" edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat and Paul J. Hopper is reviewed…”
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Voice: Form and Function by Vogel, Petra M.

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Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics by Hopper, Paul J.

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Grammaticalization by Hopper, Paul J, Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, Bavin, Edith L

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Grammaticalization by Lichtenberk, Frantisek

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The Discourse Basis for Lexical Categories in Universal Grammar by Hopper, Paul J., Thompson, Sandra A.

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Transitivity in Grammar and Discourse by Hopper, Paul J., Thompson, Sandra A.

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Functional Explanations in Linguistics and the Origins of Language by Hopper, Paul J

“…Disagrees with a previous article suggesting that the grammatical mode of communication arose via natural selection. (JL)…”
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Studies in Interactional Linguistics by Selting, Margret, Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth, Thompson, Sandra A

“…Current interactional linguistic research appears to be crystallizing around systematic themes, which are all represented in this collection of papers. In the…”
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Discourse Analysis: Grammar and Critical Theory in the 1980s by Hopper, Paul J.

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REVIEW ARTICLE - Grammaticalization (see abstract of review in this issue; see abstract of book in LLBA 27/4, 9309203) by Cowie, Claire S (Review of: Hopper, Paul J, Traugott, Elizabeth Closs)

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