Bernd Heine
Biographic Data
| ID | 558908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernd Heine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernd |
| FAMILY NAME | Heine |
| SIGNATURE | HEINE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cologne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9304-7814 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 77 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 167 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 72 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Grammaticalization vs. Diachronic Construction Grammar
In some work based on the framework of Diachronic Construction Grammar, a branch of Construction Grammar (e.g. Croft 2001 ; Goldberg 2006 ), it has been argued that phenomena traditionally classified as instances of grammaticalization should not be considered as belonging to a distinct field of its own within historical linguistics. Rather, it is proposed that such phenomena are more appropriately taken care of within Diachronic Construction Gram…
Beyond sentence grammar
Discourse-pragmatic markers of (inter)subjective stance in Asian languages
This special issue is concerned with languages belonging to the Sinosphere, a region where China played an important geo-political and cultural leadership role. It aims to trace areal effects that the impact of Chinese had on the languages of the region over centuries. It deals with a number of words of Chinese origin used in Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and Thai, as well as Chinese and investigates theoretically significant issues related to lan…
Akie as a Language Island
The traditional hunter-gatherer group of Akie in Tanzania provides a paradigm example of a language island. Separated from its linguistic relatives by hundreds of kilometres, with no contact whatsoever between the two, the Akie are struggling for survival, both economically and linguistically
From separate clause to epistemic adverbial, the neglected source construction and initial-to-medial pathway
The source construction and the pathway for the formation of English epistemic adverbials are widely discussed in the literature. However, few studies to our knowledge have specifically discussed a hypothetical source construction of separate clauses and a hypothetical initial-to-medial pathway. Chinese guoran was first used as a separate clause, and later developed into an epistemic adverbial meaning ‘it really happens’. Diachronic investigation…
From clause to discourse marker
This paper proposes an alternative account for the development of comment clauses (e.g. I think, I mean, I admit), which differs from previous accounts centring on grammaticalization, pragmaticalization, or lexicalization. Based on the framework of Discourse Grammar and building on Heine et al. (2021a, b), it is argued that their development involves a stage of cooptation, whereby a text piece is transferred from the sentence level to the metatex…
Where do demonstratives come from
Studies in grammaticalization have established that processes of grammatical change frequently have lexical items as their source, and more specifically nouns and verbs. But there is at least one potential exception: As argued by Holger Diessel in a number of publications, demonstratives cannot be historically derived from other entities, such as lexical items. Based on a survey of languages from different parts of the world and belonging to diff…
On the status of wh- exclamatives in English
Exclamative expressions like What an enormous crowd came! and How wonderful this journey is! have been described as forming one of the four basic sentence (or clause) types of English. The present paper discusses the main features of this type and analyzes them with reference to the framework of Discourse Grammar. It is argued that the structure of exclamatives can be related to other sentence types in terms of discourse strategies that are used …
Prosody and formation of Modern Chinese parenthetical CTMP ni xiang ‘ you think’
The Modern Chinese parenthetical clause-taking mental predicate (CTMP) ni xiang (as in Ni xiang yinian huafei duoshao qian a? ‘You think (about it), how much money will it cost each year?’) is used to urge the hearer to give attention to the content of the clause with which it combines. It is argued that its formation does not follow a commonly accepted matrix clause pathway, in which a parenthetical CTMP develops from a corresponding matrix clau…
World Lexicon of Grammaticalization
Extensively revised and updated, this second edition provides, in an A-Z format, an analysis of the most important generalizations that have been made on the unidirectional change of grammatical forms and constructions. Based on the analysis of more than 1,000 languages, it reconstructs over 500 processes of grammatical change in the languages of the world, including East Asian languages such as Chinese, Korean and Japanese. Readers are provided …
Borrowing
Reviewed by: Borrowing: Loanwords in the speech community and in the grammar by Shana Poplack Bernd Heine Borrowing: Loanwords in the speech community and in the grammar. By Shana Poplack. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xix, 223. ISBN 90780190256388. $39.95. The study of borrowing in particular and of language mixing in general has a long history of research (e.g. Haugen 1950, Haspelmath & Tadmor 2009), and this history is character…
Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective
The grammaticalizational relation between two Modern Chinese wo xiang 'I think' constructions
Cooptation as a discourse strategy
Some recent lines of research suggest that there are two different domains of discourse processing where one is concerned with the form and meaning of sentences and their parts and the other with the organization of discourse beyond the sentence and the relationship between linguistic material and the extra-linguistic situation of discourse. One important mechanism relating the two domains to one another is provided by cooptation, a cognitive-com…
Constructional change vs. grammaticalization
Building on recent findings made in the framework of Construction Grammar, on the one hand, and within the framework on grammaticalization, on the other, the present paper is concerned with the development from lexical compounding to derivation. Compounding is presumably the most common source of derivational categories and this applies in particular to modifying (endocentric) compounds, which are the main subject of this paper. By looking at thr…
The diachrony of grammar by T. Givón
Reviewed by: The diachrony of grammar by T. Givón Bernd Heine The diachrony of grammar. By T. Givón. (2 vols.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2015. Pp. xi, 818. ISBN 9789027212207. $225 (Hb). The text cover describes this publication as containing case studies spanning a lifetime of research into the diachrony of grammar. This characterization strikes me as being largely, though not entirely, appropriate: the main focus of the publication, as I see i…
The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis
Areal Tendencies in Derivation
This chapter discusses the question of universals in derivational morphology, an issue that has been paid little attention. First, methodological questions are raised, including some of the obstacles in looking for universals of derivation. The next section reviews some of the past proposals for universals of derivation. The final section assesses some of these proposed universals in light of the material assembled in this volume.
Grundfragen der Deckungsbeitragsrechnung in der Binnenschiffahrt
On discourse markers
Discourse markers have been the subject of a considerable body of recent research. Most commonly, their genesis and development was described in terms of grammaticalization. But there were also alternative approaches to deal with their development, and the term pragmaticalization was proposed to account for features of discourse markers that pose a problem to grammaticalization theory. In the present paper it is argued that neither grammaticaliza…
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
The Oxford handbook of grammaticalization
This volume presents the state of the art in research on grammaticalization, the process by which lexical items acquire grammatical function, grammatical items get additional functions and grammars are created
On thetical grammar
Most frameworks of linguistic analysis tend to highlight phenomena of language use and/or language knowledge such as sentence and word structure, while backgrounding or ignoring other phenomena that are interpreted as being of more marginal interest for the linguist. The main goal of this paper is to argue that some phenomena that have previously been treated as being more peripheral play an important role in the organization of linguistic discou…
On the grammaticalization of personal pronouns
Unlike most other grammatical domains, that of personal pronouns is clearly under-researched in works on grammaticalization. One reason can be seen in the fact that personal pronouns differ in their diachronic behavior from most other grammatical categories to the extent that they present a challenge to grammaticalization theory. In the present paper it is argued that in order to account for this behavior, an extended understanding of grammatical…
Pidgin-Sprachen im Bantu-Bereich
The Genesis of Grammar
This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind. Like other biological phenomena, language cannot be fully understood without reference to its evolution, whether proven or hypothesized," wrote Talmy Givón in 2002. As the languages spoken 8,000 years ago were typologically much the same as they are today and as no direct evidence exists for languages before th…
On discourse markers
Discourse markers have been the subject of a considerable body of recent research. Most commonly, their genesis and development was described in terms of grammaticalization. But there were also alternative approaches to deal with their development, and the term pragmaticalization was proposed to account for features of discourse markers that pose a problem to grammaticalization theory. In the present paper it is argued that neither grammaticaliza…
The Mountain People
Opening Paragraph Colin M. Turnbull's publications form virtually the only source available on Ik clture and society. His book The Mountain People has found wide distribution, far beyond anthropological circles. The problems it raises have been discussed in a number of reviews (see especially Beidelman, 1973; Spencer, 1973; Barth, 1974; Winter et al ., 1975). Through the present article, I wish to show that there is an urgent need for a more comp…
On the grammaticalization of personal pronouns
Unlike most other grammatical domains, that of personal pronouns is clearly under-researched in works on grammaticalization. One reason can be seen in the fact that personal pronouns differ in their diachronic behavior from most other grammatical categories to the extent that they present a challenge to grammaticalization theory. In the present paper it is argued that in order to account for this behavior, an extended understanding of grammatical…
Cooptation as a discourse strategy
Some recent lines of research suggest that there are two different domains of discourse processing where one is concerned with the form and meaning of sentences and their parts and the other with the organization of discourse beyond the sentence and the relationship between linguistic material and the extra-linguistic situation of discourse. One important mechanism relating the two domains to one another is provided by cooptation, a cognitive-com…
Readings in Creole Studies
Creole studies embrace a wide range is disciplines: history, ethnography, geography, sociology, etc. The phenomenon of creolization has come to be recognized as widespread; creolization presupposes contact, and that is a human universal. The present anthology discusses social, historical and theoretical aspects of over twenty pidgins and creoles. Part one deals with general theoretical issues, especially those relating to pidgin language formatio…
Language Death in Africa
Africa, along with Asia, is the continent with the highest number of 'living' indigenous languages. European languages, mainly English, French and Portuguese, have spread throughout all African nations during the last 200 years; however, until today, the use of these 'foreign' languages has been mostly restricted to certain domains, such as higher education, politics and business, and also to a relatively small number of people. According to Scot…
From clause to discourse marker
This paper proposes an alternative account for the development of comment clauses (e.g. I think, I mean, I admit), which differs from previous accounts centring on grammaticalization, pragmaticalization, or lexicalization. Based on the framework of Discourse Grammar and building on Heine et al. (2021a, b), it is argued that their development involves a stage of cooptation, whereby a text piece is transferred from the sentence level to the metatex…
Constraints on Contact-Induced Linguistic Change
In a recent paper on "Social and Linguistic Factors as Predictors of Contact-Induced Change" Thomason (2007) reiterates the claim made earlier by Thomason & Kaufman (1988) and others (e.g., Harris & Campbell 1995; Curnow 2001) that there are no linguistic constraints on interference in language contact, in that any linguistic feature can be transferred to any language, and any change can occur as a direct or indirect result of language contact, a…
On the possessive perfect in North Russian
Šafranov (1852:10–11) appears to be the first work where attention was drawn to the fact that the North Russian construction u 'at' + noun (in the genitive) + participle ending in -no/-to, as in U menja v dome ubrano (At-me-in-home-tidied-up; 'I have tidied up at home') completely corresponds to the German possessive perfect as in Ich habe im Hause alles in schöne Ordnung gebracht.Our main goal is to show that even though the possessive perfect i…
Salient stages in contact-induced grammatical change
Accounting for a functional category
On reflexive forms in creoles
Beyond sentence grammar
Language Typology and Convergence Areas in Africa
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Die Konsonanten Des Proto-Buem
Sprachkenntnis und sprachgebrauch in Afrika
Afrikanische Verkehrssprachen
Urbanisierung Und Sprachsoziologie Afrikanischer Linguae Francae
Grundfragen der Deckungsbeitragsrechnung in der Binnenschiffahrt
Grundfragen Der Deckungsbeitragsrechnung in Der Binnenschiffahrt
Language Typology and Convergence Areas in Africa
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Readings in Creole Studies
Creole studies embrace a wide range is disciplines: history, ethnography, geography, sociology, etc. The phenomenon of creolization has come to be recognized as widespread; creolization presupposes contact, and that is a human universal. The present anthology discusses social, historical and theoretical aspects of over twenty pidgins and creoles. Part one deals with general theoretical issues, especially those relating to pidgin language formatio…
Language and Dialect Atlas of Kenya, I
The Nubi Language of Kibera
The Waata Dialect of Oromo
The Mountain People
Opening Paragraph Colin M. Turnbull's publications form virtually the only source available on Ik clture and society. His book The Mountain People has found wide distribution, far beyond anthropological circles. The problems it raises have been discussed in a number of reviews (see especially Beidelman, 1973; Spencer, 1973; Barth, 1974; Winter et al ., 1975). Through the present article, I wish to show that there is an urgent need for a more comp…
On the Metaphorical Base of Grammar
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On the Rise of Grammatical Categories
Vol. 5
Approaches to Grammaticalization
The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and therefore challenges some of the basic tenets of twentieth century linguistics. This two-volume work presents a number of diverse theoretical viewpoints on grammatica…
Approaches to Grammaticalization
The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and therefore challenges some of the basic tenets of twentieth century linguistics. This two-volume work presents a number of diverse theoretical viewpoints on grammatica…
Approaches to grammaticalization.
Approaches to grammaticalization.
Auxiliaries in African Languages
Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on African Language Structures (1991), pp. 106-119
Language Death in Africa
Africa, along with Asia, is the continent with the highest number of 'living' indigenous languages. European languages, mainly English, French and Portuguese, have spread throughout all African nations during the last 200 years; however, until today, the use of these 'foreign' languages has been mostly restricted to certain domains, such as higher education, politics and business, and also to a relatively small number of people. According to Scot…
Grammaticalization Chains
Recent studies in grammaticalization suggest that the development of grammatical categories is the result of an interaction between cognitive and pragmatic operations, and that this development may lead to the rise of continuous linguistic structures which have been referred to as grammaticalization chains (Heine, Claudi & Hünnemeyer 1991a; Craig 1991; Heine 1991). In the present paper it is argued that grammaticalization chains are linguistic ca…
Auxiliaries
Offering a new perspective on auxiliaries in particular and language structure in general, this study argues that language cannot be explained satisfactorily with reference to linguistic variables alone; what is required in addition are extra-linguistic parameters relating to how we perceive the world around us, and how we utilize the linguistic resources available to us to conceptualize our experiences, and to communicate successfully. Rather th…
On the Genesis of Aspect in African Languages
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Historical Issues in African Linguistics (1994)
Auxiliaries
Offering a new perspective on auxiliaries in particular and language structure in general, this study argues that language cannot be explained satisfactorily with reference to linguistic variables alone; what is required in addition are extra-linguistic parameters relating to how we perceive the world around us, and how we utilize the linguistic resources available to us to conceptualize our experiences, and to communicate successfully. Rather th…
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