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ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS ON PRAGMATIC MARKERS<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1983 \u201cCriteria for Distinguishing the Non-Aspectual Functions of ME <\/span><\/span>ginnen.<\/i><\/span><\/span>\u201d General Lingu<\/i><\/span><\/span>i<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/i>stics<\/i><\/span><\/span>23: 235-45. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1987 \u201cA Linguistic Approach to Certain Old English Stylistic Devices.\u201d <\/span><\/span>Studia Neophilologica<\/i><\/span><\/span> <\/a>59: 177-85.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1990 \u201cThe Stylistic Function of ME <\/span><\/span>gan<\/i><\/span><\/span> Reconsidered.\u201d <\/span><\/span>Papers from the 5<\/i><\/span><\/span>th<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/sup>International Conference on English Historical Linguistics<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a>. Eds. S. Adamson, V.A. Law, N. Vincent, and S. Wright. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 31-53.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1990 \u201cThe Development of Discourse Markers in English.\u201d <\/span><\/span>His<\/i><\/span><\/span>torical Linguistics and Phi<\/i><\/span><\/span>lolo<\/i><\/span><\/span>g<\/i><\/span><\/span>y<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a>. Ed. Jacek Fisiak. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 45-71.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1993 \u201cEpisode Boundary Markers in Old English Discourse.\u201d <\/span><\/span>Historical Li<\/i><\/span><\/span>nguistics 1989<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span> Eds. Henk Aertsen and Robert J. Jeffers. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 73-89.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1995 \u201cPragmatic Markers in a Diachronic Perspective.\u201d <\/span><\/span>Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a>. Eds. by Jocelyn Ahlers et al. Berkeley Linguistics Society. 377-388.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1998 \u201c\u2018The flowers are lovely; only they have no scent\u2019: The Evolution of a Pragmatic Marker\u201d Anglistentag 1997<\/i>. Eds. Raimund Borgmeier, Herbert Grabes, and Andreas H. Jucker. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier. 9-33.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1999 \u201c\u2018Whilom, as olde stories tellen us\u2019: The Discourse Marker <\/span><\/span>whilom<\/i><\/span><\/span> in Middle English.\u201d <\/span><\/span>From Arabye to Engelond<\/i><\/span><\/span>: <\/span><\/span>Medieval Studies in Honour of Mahmoud Manzalaoui on his 75<\/i><\/span><\/span>th<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/sup> Birthday<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/i><\/span><\/span> Eds. A.E. Crista Canitz and Gernot R. Wieland. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press. 175-199.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2000 \u201cThe Importance of Discourse Types in Grammaticalization: The Case of <\/span><\/span>anon.<\/i><\/span><\/span>\u201d Textual Parameters in Older Languages<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a>. Eds. Susan C. Herring, Pieter van Reenen, and Lene Sch\u00f8sler. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 139-162.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2001 \u201cFrom Matrix Clause to Pragmatic Marker: The History of <\/span><\/span>Look<\/i><\/span><\/span>-Forms.\u201d <\/span><\/span>Journal of Historical Pragmatics<\/i><\/span><\/span> <\/a>2.2: 177-199.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2001 \u201cHistorical Discourse Analysis.\u201d <\/span><\/span>The Handbook of Discourse Analysis<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a>. Eds. Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen, and Heidi E. Hamilton. Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell. 138-60.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2005 \u201cProcesses Underlying the Development of Pragmatic Markers: The Case of <\/span><\/span>(I) say<\/i><\/span><\/span>\u201d, <\/span><\/span>Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span> Eds. Janne Skaffari, Matti Peikola, Ruth Carroll, Risto Hiltunen and Brita W\u00e5rvik. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 279-299.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2006 \u201cPathways in the Development of Pragmatic Markers in English\u201d, <\/span><\/span>The Handbook on the History of the English Language<\/i><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/a> Eds. Ans van Kemenade and Bettelou Los. Oxford: Blackwell. 307-334.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2007 \u201cThe Development of <\/span><\/span>I mean<\/i><\/span><\/span>: Implications for the Study of Historical Pragmatics\u201d, <\/span><\/span>Methods in Historical Pragmatics<\/a>.<\/i><\/span><\/span> Eds. Susan M. Fitzmaurice and Irma Taavitsainen. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 37-77. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2007 \u201c<\/span><\/span>What\u2019s more<\/i><\/span><\/span>: The Development of Pragmatic Markers in the Modern Period\u201d.<\/span><\/span> \u2018Of varying language and opposing creed\u2019: New Insights into Late Modern English<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span> Eds. Javier P\u00e9rez-Guerra, Dolores Gonz\u00e1lez \u00c1lvarez, Jorge L. Bueno-Alonso, and Esperanza Rama-Mart\u00ednez. Bern: Peter Lang. 47-75.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2009 \u201cThe development of <\/span><\/span>that said<\/i><\/span><\/span>\u201d. Published on Language Log http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=1807<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2010 \u201cFrom Performative to Concessive Disjunct: <\/span><\/span>I\/you admit<\/i><\/span><\/span> and <\/span><\/span>admittedly<\/i><\/span><\/span>\u201d. <\/span><\/span>Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English: A Festschrift for Minoji Akim<\/i><\/span><\/span>oto<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a>. <\/i><\/span><\/span>Eds. Merja Kyt\u00f6, John Scahill, and Harumi Tanabe. Bern: Peter Lang. 279-302.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2010 \u201cDiscourse Markers\u201d. <\/span><\/span>Historical Pragmatics<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a>. Eds. Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen. Vol. 8 of <\/span><\/span>Handbooks of Pragmatics<\/i><\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span>Historical Pragmatics. <\/i><\/span><\/span>Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 285-314.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2012 \u201cHistorical Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics: Problems and Strategies\u201d. <\/span><\/span>English Corpus Linguistics: Crossing Paths<\/a>. <\/i><\/span><\/span>Ed. Merja Kyt\u00f6. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 101-131.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2014 \u201cThe Extremes of Insubordination: Exclamatory <\/span><\/span>as if!<\/i><\/span><\/span>\u201d. <\/span><\/span>Journal of English Linguistics<\/a> <\/i><\/span><\/span>42.2: 93-113. DOI 10.1177\/0075424214521425<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2014<\/span><\/span> \u201cIf you choose\/like\/prefer\/want\/wish<\/i><\/span><\/span>: The Origin of Metalinguistic and Politeness Functions.\u201d <\/span><\/span>Late Modern English Syntax<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a>. Ed. Marianne Hundt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 270-290. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2015 \u201cHistorical Discourse Analysis.\u201d <\/span><\/span>The Handbook of Discourse Analysis<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a>. 2nd<\/span><\/span>\u00a0ed. Eds. Deborah Tannen, Heidi E. Hamilton, and Deborah Schiffrin. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons. 222-243. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2017 Chapter 10 \u201cHistorical Pragmatic Approaches\u201d. English Historical Linguistics: Approaches and Perspectives<\/i><\/a>. Ed. Laurel J. Brinton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 245-275.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2019 \u201cThat’s luck, if you ask me<\/i>: The Rise of an Intersubjective Comment”. Categories, Constructions and Change in English Syntax<\/i><\/a>. Eds. Nuria Y\u00e1\u00f1ez-Bouza, Linda van Bergen, and Willem B. Hollmann. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 190-209.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2020 \u201cThe Development and Pragmatic Function of a Non-inference Marker: that is not to say (that)\u201d<\/i>. Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the Evolution of English. <\/i><\/a>Eds. Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi, and Juhani Clemola. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 251-275.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2021 “An Emerging Pragmatic Marker: Sentence-final is all<\/em>” (co-authored with Daniela Kolbe-Hanna [first author]). Discourse Pragmatic Variation and Change: Theory, Innovations, Contact<\/em><\/a>. Eds. Elizabeth Peterson, Turo Hiltunen and Joseph Kern. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2021 “Responding to Thanks: From you’re welcome<\/em> to you bet<\/em>“. Journal of Historical Pragmatics<\/em> <\/a>(Articles in Honour of Andreas H. Jucker, ed. by Jonathan Culpeper and Irma Taavitsainen) 22(2). 180-201. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1075\/jhp.00052.bri<\/a> <\/span><\/span>\u00a0Open access<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2023 “‘You betcha I’m a ‘Merican’: The rise of YOU BET as a pragmatic marker” (co-authored with Tomoharu Hirota [first author]). International Journal of Corpus Linguistics<\/em><\/a>. 28 (4). 528-558. Published online 23 February 2023. Open access. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1075\/ijcl.21060.hir<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2024. “The rise of what<\/em>-general extenders in English.\u00a0Journal of Historical Pragmatics<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>25(3). 104-136. Published online 5 Sept. 2023. \u00a0http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1075\/jhp20009.bri<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2025. “‘No matter what, you must think positive’: The Development of no matter (what)<\/em> as a Pragmatic Marker” (co-authored with Reijirou Shibasaki). Studies in Modern English<\/em> \u8fd1\u4ee3\u82f1\u8a9e\u7814\u7a76 (Journal of the Modern English Association) . 41.1\u201330. http:\/\/www.modernenglish.jp\/No41_table_E.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2026. “The Development of Pragmatic Markers: Pathways and Processes”.\u00a0The New Cambridge History of the English Language.\u00a0<\/a><\/em>Vol. III:\u00a0Transmission, Change and Ideology.\u00a0<\/em>Ed. Joan Beal, 598-628. Cambridge University Press<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Forthcoming. “More so\/moreso<\/em>: The Rise of a New Conjunctive Adverb?” World-wide Perspectives on English Usage: Into the Third Millennium<\/em>. Eds. Adam Smith, Peter Collins, and Minna Korhonen. Cambridge University Press.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Forthcoming. “What about how about<\/em>?: The Rise of Two Irregular wh<\/em>-Questions. Interacting Forces in English Historical Linguistics (Selected Papers from ICEHL 22)<\/em>. Eds. Christine Wallis et al. John Benjamins.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS ON INTENSIFIERS<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

2020 \u201cA Far from Simple Matter Revisited: The Ongoing Grammaticalization of far from<\/i>\u201d (co-authored with Tohru Inoue). Late Modern English: Novel Encounters<\/i><\/a>. Eds. Merja Kyt\u00f6 and Erik Smitterberg. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 271-293.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2021. “‘He loved his father, but next to adored his mother’: nigh<\/em>, near<\/em>, and next (to)<\/em> as downtowners in the history of English”. Special issue of Journal of English Linguistics<\/em><\/a>. Ed. Claudia Claridge and Merja Kyt\u00f6. Published online Jan. 4, 2021. 49(1). 39-60.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2026. “From Adverb to Approximator: Practically<\/em> in Late Modern English”. ICAME Journal<\/a><\/em><\/a>. 50(1). 19-36.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS ON GRAMMATICALIZATION\/LEXICALIZATION<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2002 \u201cGrammaticalization versus Lexicalization Reconsidered: On the \u2018late\u2019 Use of Temporal Adverbs\u201d <\/span><\/span>English Historical S<\/i><\/span><\/span>yntax and Morphology: Selected Papers from 11 ICEHL<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a>. Vol. 1. Eds. Teresa Fanego, Javier P\u00e9rez-Guerra, and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 L\u00f3pez-Couso. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 67-97 .<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2004 \u201cSubject Clitics in English: A Case of Degrammaticalization?\u201d <\/span><\/span>Corpus Approaches to Grammaticalization in English<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a>. Eds. Hans Lindquist and Christian Mair. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 227-56.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2007 \u201cRise of the Adverbial Conjunctions {<\/span><\/span>any, each, every<\/i><\/span><\/span>} <\/span><\/span>time<\/i><\/span><\/span>\u201d. <\/span><\/span>Connectives in the History of E<\/i><\/span><\/span>nglish<\/i><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/a> Eds. Ursula Lenker and Anneli Meurman-Solin. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 77-96.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2007 \u201cLexicalization and Grammaticalization all over again\u201d (co-authored with Elizabeth Closs Traugott<\/a>), <\/span><\/span>Historical <\/i><\/span><\/span>Linguistics 2005<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span> Eds. Joseph C. Salmons and Shannon Dubenion-Smith. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 3-19.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2012 \u201cChanges in English in Theoretical Perspective: Lexicalization\u201d, <\/span><\/span>English Historical Linguistics: An International Handbook<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a>. Eds. Alexander Bergs and Laurel J. Brinton. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter Mouton. 1577-1598.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2012 \u201c\u2018The ghost of old morphology\u2019: (De)grammaticalization or Lexicalization?\u201d. <\/span><\/span>Grammaticalization and Language Change. New Reflections<\/a>. <\/i><\/span><\/span>Eds. Kristin Davidse, Tine Breben, Liselotte Brems, and Tanja Mortelmans. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 135-166.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2026 “Lexicalization”. International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics<\/em>, 3rd edition, ed. by Hilary Nesi and Petar Milan. Vol. 3, 41-46. Elsevier. Published online Sept. 2025. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/B978-0-323-95504-1.00813-9<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS ON COMPOSITE PREDICATES<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1996 \u201cAttitudes toward Increasing Segmentalization in English: Complex and Phrasal Verbs in English.\u201d <\/span><\/span>Journal of English Linguistics<\/i><\/span><\/span> <\/a>24: 186-205.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1999 \u201cIntroduction\u201d (co-authored with Minoji Akimoto). 1-20. and \u201cThe Origin of the Composite Predicate in Old English\u201d (co-written with Minoji Akimoto). 21-58. In <\/span><\/span>Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Composite Predicates in the History of English. <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a>Co-edited Minoji Akimoto). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2008 \u201c\u2018Where grammar and lexis meet\u2019: Composite predicates in English\u201d. Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization<\/i><\/a>. Eds. Elena Seoana and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 L\u00f3pez-Couso, in collaboration with Teresa Fanego.<\/span><\/span> Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 33-53.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2011 \u201cThe Grammaticalization of Complex Predicates\u201d. <\/span><\/span>The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization<\/i><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/a> Eds. Heiko Narrog and Bernd Heine. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 559-569. Revised, to be reissued in paperback, 2020\/2021.
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ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS ON CANADIAN ENGLISH<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2001 \u201cCanadian English\u201d (co-authored with Margery Fee). <\/span><\/span>English in North America. <\/i><\/span><\/span>Vol. 6 of the <\/span><\/span>Cambridge History of the English Language<\/i><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/a> Ed. John Algeo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 422-40. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2006\u2013 <\/span><\/span>Bank of Canadian English<\/i><\/span><\/span> (online database). Eds. Stefan Dollinger, Laurel J. Brinton, and Margery Fee. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2008 \u201cCanadian English Lexis: Historical and Variationist Perspectives\u201d (second author, with Stefan Dollinger). Special issue of <\/span><\/span>Anglis<\/i><\/span><\/span>tik<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a> \u201cFocus on Canada\u201d, ed. Matthias L.G. Meyer. 19:43-64.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2011 <\/span><\/span>A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles Online<\/i><\/span><\/span>. 1st ed. Stefan Dollinger (Editor-in-chief), Laurel J. Brinton, and Margery Fee<\/a> (eds.). Based on Avis et al. (1967). http:\/\/dchp.ca\/DCHP-1<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2012 \u201cBalanced Corpora and Quotation Databases: Taking Shortcuts or Expanding Methodological Scope?\u201d (first author, cowritten with Stefan Dollinger and Margery Fee)<\/span><\/span>Outposts of Historical Corpus Linguistics: From the Helsinki Corpus to a Proliferation of Resources<\/i><\/span><\/span> (<\/span><\/span>Varieng: Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English<\/i><\/span><\/span>.) Eds. Jukka Tyrkk\u00f6, Matti Kilpi\u00f6, Terttu Nevalainen, and Matti Rissanen. Vol. 10. Online at: http:\/\/www.helsinki.fi\/varieng\/journal\/volumes\/10\/brinton_dollinger_fee\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2012 \u201cRevising the <\/span><\/span>Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles<\/i><\/span><\/span>: A Progress Report, 2006\u2013(April) 2012\u201d (second author, coauthored with Stefan Dollinger and Margery Fee). <\/span><\/span>Dictionaries<\/i><\/span><\/span> (Journal of the Dictionary Society of North Americ<\/span><\/span>a)<\/span><\/span><\/a> 33: 164-178. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2015 \u201cStudying Real-time Change in the Adverbial Subjunctive: The Value of the <\/span><\/span>Bank of Canadian English\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span>Transatlantic Perspecti<\/i><\/span><\/span>v<\/i><\/span><\/span>es on Late Modern<\/i><\/span><\/span> English<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a>. Ed. Marina Dossena<\/span><\/span>. (Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics.) Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 14-36.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2016 \u201cUsing Historical Corpora and Historical Text Databases\u201d, <\/span><\/span>The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography<\/a>. <\/i><\/span><\/span>Ed. Philip Durkin. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 203-220.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2017 \u201cBuilding and Evaluating Web Corpora Representing National Varieties of English\u201d, <\/span><\/span>Language Resources and Evaluation<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a> (second author, coauthored with Paul Cook<\/a>). Published online 6 Jan. 2017. <\/span><\/span>DOI: 10.1007\/s10579-016-9378-z<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS ON ASPECT\/AKTIONSART <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1980 \u201cThe Grammatical Status of Aspectual Catenatives in English.\u201d <\/span><\/span>Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a>. Eds. Bruce R. Caron et al. Berkeley Linguistics Society. 268-77.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1985 \u201cVerb Particles in English: Aspect or Aktionsart?\u201d <\/span><\/span>Studia Linguistica<\/i><\/span><\/span> <\/a>39: 157-68.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1985 \u201cFrom Verb to Aspectualizer: The Semantics of Grammaticalization.\u201d Germanic Linguistics: Papers from a Symposium at the university of Chicago, April 24, 1985<\/a>. <\/span><\/span>Ed. Jan Terje Faarlund. Indiana University Linguistics Club, 29-45.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1985 \u201cIconicity and Semantic Change: Old English Verbal Prefixes.\u201d <\/span><\/span>Amsterdamer Beitr\u00e4ge zur \u00e4lteren Germanistik<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/span> 23: 55-70.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1987 \u201cThe Aspectual Nature of States and Habits.\u201d <\/span><\/span>Folia Linguistica<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a> 21: 195-214.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1991 \u201cThe Mass\/Count Distinction and Aktionsart: The Grammar of Iteratives and Habituals.\u201d <\/span><\/span>Belgian Journal of Linguistics<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a> 6: 47-69. (Special Issue on <\/span><\/span>Perspectives on Aspect and Aktionsart<\/i><\/span><\/span>. Eds. Carl Vetters and Willy Vandeweghe.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1994 \u201cThe Differentiation of Statives and Perfects in Early Modern English: the Development of the Conclusive Perfect.\u201d <\/span><\/span>Towards a Standard English (1600-1800)<\/i><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/a> Eds. Dieter Stein and Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 135-70.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1995 \u201cThe Aktionsart of Deverbal Nouns in English.\u201d <\/span><\/span>Temporal Reference, Aspect and Actionality. Vol. 1: Semantic and Syntactic Perspectives<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a>. Eds. Pier Marco Bertinetto, Valentina Bianchi, James Higginbotham, Mario Squartini. Torino: Rosenburg & Sellier. 27-42. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1998 \u201cAspectuality and Countability: A Cross-categorial Analogy.\u201d <\/span><\/span>English Language and Linguistics<\/i><\/span><\/span> <\/a>2: 37-63.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS ON LINGUISTIC STYLISTICS<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1980 \u201c\u2018Represented Perception\u2019: A Study in Narrative Style.\u201d <\/span><\/span>Poetics<\/i><\/span><\/span> <\/a>9: 363-81.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1984 \u201cChaucer\u2019s \u2018Tale of Melibee\u2019: A Reassessment.\u201d <\/span><\/span>English Stu<\/i><\/span><\/span>dies in Canada<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a> 10: 251-64.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1985 \u201cThe Iconic Role of Aspect in Shakespeare\u2019s Sonnet 129.\u201d <\/span><\/span>Poetics Today<\/i><\/span><\/span> <\/a>6: 447-59.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1987 \u201cIconic Word Order Patterns in Chaucerian Prose.\u201d <\/span><\/span>Semiotics <\/i><\/span><\/span>1986<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a>. Eds. Jonathan Evans and John Deely. Lanham: University Press of America. 3-14.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1988 \u201cThe Iconicity of Rhetorical Figures: the \u2018Schemes\u2019 as Devices for Textual Cohesion.\u201d Language and Style<\/i> 21: 162-90. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1992 \u201cThe Historical Present in Charlotte Bront\u00eb\u2019s Novels: Some Discourse Functions.\u201d <\/span><\/span>Sty<\/i><\/span><\/span>le<\/i><\/span><\/span> <\/a>26: 221-44.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1995 \u201cNon-anaphoric Reflexives in Free Indirect Style: Expressing the Subjectivity of the Non-speaker.\u201d <\/span><\/span>Subjectivity and Subjectivisation: Linguistic Perspectives<\/i><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/a> Eds. Dieter Stein and Susan Wright. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 173-94.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1987 \u201cDiagrammatic Iconicity in English Syntax.\u201d <\/span><\/span>Recherches S\u00e9miotiques\/Semiotic Inquiry<\/i><\/span><\/span> <\/a>7: 55-72, 108, 112.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1988 \u201cGrammar, Usage, or Style? Rule Violations in Student Writing.\u201d Technostyle<\/i> 7: 37-46.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1989 \u201cMetaphor, Metonymy, and Iconicity: Some Principles of Semantic Change.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/i>Recherches S\u00e9miotiques\/Semiotic Inquiry<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a> 9: 137-49.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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2015 <\/span><\/span>\u201cInterjection-based Delocutive Verbs in the History of English\u201d. <\/span><\/span>Developments in English: Expanding Electronic Evidence<\/a>. <\/i><\/span><\/span>Eds. Irma Taavitsainen, Merja Kyt\u00f6, Claudia Claridge, and Jeremy Smith<\/span><\/span>. <\/i><\/span><\/span>Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 141-161.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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