Kasper Boye
Biographic Data
| ID | 3838842 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kasper Boye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kasper |
| FAMILY NAME | Boye |
| SIGNATURE | BOYE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7457-4969 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Modality
As a term relating to linguistic categories, modality is used in its most narrow sense to refer to categories that can be defined in terms of the notions of necessity and possibility. A number of broader uses are also common, however. For instance, the term is used also for categories that have to do with the indication of degree of certainty and possibly the indication of information source (a notion associated with the category of evidentiality…
Evidentiality, discourse prominence and grammaticalization
This paper seeks to answer three questions: (1) What is the difference between grammatical and lexical indications of information source? (2) What qualifies an element for grammaticalization as an evidential? (3) How can we identify grammatical evidentials and instances of evidential grammaticalization? The answers proposed are as follows: (1) The difference between grammatical and lexical indications of information source is a difference between…
Introduction
Through intriguing paths of change, manner expressions may give rise to both quotatives and a diverse range of complementizers. These paths of change are still far from mapped or fully understood, but after years of relative ignorance, they have recently been the subject of increased interest. In this paper, we introduce a special issue the aim of which is to add to the growing knowledge and understanding of the development of manner expressions …
Grammaticalization as Conventionalization of Discursively Secondary Status
Despite intense research on grammaticalization, no satisfactory definition has so far been proposed. Some would argue that it is indeed impossible to come up with a precise definition as grammaticalization is an epiphenomenon. After pointing out problems in existing definitions, this article proposes a new definition of grammaticalization as a distinct kind of change. The definition is based not only on the theory of the lexical–grammatical disti…
Grammar is background in sentence processing
Boye and Harder (2012) claim that the grammatical–lexical distinction has to do with discourse prominence: lexical elements can convey discursively primary (or foreground) information, whereas grammatical elements cannot (outside corrective contexts). This paper reports two experiments that test this claim. Experiment 1 was a letter detection study, in which readers were instructed to mark specific letters in the text. Experiment 2 was a text-cha…
Complement-taking predicates, parentheticals and grammaticalization
The grammatical-lexical distinction in Chinese aspectual markers
This paper discusses the grammatical-lexical distinction based on Boye and Harder (2012) in the class of aspectual markers in Chinese and aims to decide whether these markers are grammatical or lexical in a theoretically anchored sense. To accomplish this, the language-general criteria proposed in Boye and Harder (2012) are translated into Chinese-specific criteria for diagnosing grammatical vs. lexical status, and these translated criteria are t…
The Meeting Point
Contrasting Grammatical and Lexical Determiners
Complementizer Semantics in European Languages
Complementizers may be defined as conjunctions that have the function of identifying clauses as complements. In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that they have additional functions. Some of these functions are semantic in the sense that they represent conventional contributions to the meanings of the complements. The present book puts a focus to these semantic complementizer functions.
Complementizer semantics in the Germanic languages
Epistemic complementizers
Modality
The term “modality” is used in linguistics for a variety of distinct but related phenomena.
Epistemic Meaning
This book is intended to contribute to the clarification of the linguistic research area covered by the terms modal, evidential and epistemic . It sets out to demonstrate that on cross-linguistic grounds a hitherto overlooked epistemic meaning domain must be given due recognition in linguistic theory, on a par with domains such as time and number. The relevant domain is coherent, but at the same time complex in that it consists of two subdomains:…
A usage-based theory of grammatical status and grammaticalization
This article proposes a new way of understanding grammatical status and grammaticalization as distinctive types of linguistic phenomena. The approach is usage-based and links up structural and functional, as well as synchronic and diachronic, aspects of the issue. The proposal brings a range of previously disparate phenomena into a motivated relationship, while certain well-entrenched criteria (such as 'closed paradigms') are shown to be incident…
Author's Reply - Cross-linguistic Generic Categories Are Linguists' Generalizations
In what follows, I first address Sonia Cristofaro's comment, and subsequently the comment by Ljuba Veselinova
Semantic maps and the identification of cross-linguistic generic categories
The article, Semantic maps and the identification of cross-linguistic generic categories: evidentiality and its relation to epistemic modality, in the journal, Linguistic Discovery, Volume 8, Issue 1, Year 2010
Reference and clausal perception-verb complements
Clausal perception-verb complements are known to show a contrast in meaning between "object of perception" and "knowledge acquired". This contrast has traditionally been analyzed denotationally in terms of a distinction between extra-linguistic entities belonging to two ontologically different types. However, Cognitive Grammar offers an analysis which is based on a distinction between two ways of construing the same conceptual content and does no…
Modals in the Germanic languages
Evidentiality
This article takes up two closely connected theoretical unclarities: the questions of what a linguistic category is, and what it means for linguistic elements to have grammatical rather than lexical status. The two issues are discussed with reference to the case of evidentiality. The point of departure is the problem of how to define a category: Definitions of categories like evidentiality tend to mix up the question of what unifies the category …
(De)coding Modality
Complement-taking predicates
In recent years, there has been considerable discussion about the nature of clausal subordination (cf., for instance, Schilperoord & Verhagen 1998, Verhagen 2001, Verhagen to appear, Diessel & Tomasello 2001, Thompson 2002). One of the foci has been the status of complement clauses of complement-taking predicates like think . Roughly speaking, the two poles of the issue are the ‘traditional’ assumption according to which the ‘main clause’ is cent…
A usage-based theory of grammatical status and grammaticalization
This article proposes a new way of understanding grammatical status and grammaticalization as distinctive types of linguistic phenomena. The approach is usage-based and links up structural and functional, as well as synchronic and diachronic, aspects of the issue. The proposal brings a range of previously disparate phenomena into a motivated relationship, while certain well-entrenched criteria (such as 'closed paradigms') are shown to be incident…
Complement-taking predicates, parentheticals and grammaticalization
Epistemic complementizers
The Meeting Point
Reference and clausal perception-verb complements
Clausal perception-verb complements are known to show a contrast in meaning between "object of perception" and "knowledge acquired". This contrast has traditionally been analyzed denotationally in terms of a distinction between extra-linguistic entities belonging to two ontologically different types. However, Cognitive Grammar offers an analysis which is based on a distinction between two ways of construing the same conceptual content and does no…
Contrasting Grammatical and Lexical Determiners
Complement-taking predicates
In recent years, there has been considerable discussion about the nature of clausal subordination (cf., for instance, Schilperoord & Verhagen 1998, Verhagen 2001, Verhagen to appear, Diessel & Tomasello 2001, Thompson 2002). One of the foci has been the status of complement clauses of complement-taking predicates like think . Roughly speaking, the two poles of the issue are the ‘traditional’ assumption according to which the ‘main clause’ is cent…
Modals in the Germanic languages
Evidentiality
This article takes up two closely connected theoretical unclarities: the questions of what a linguistic category is, and what it means for linguistic elements to have grammatical rather than lexical status. The two issues are discussed with reference to the case of evidentiality. The point of departure is the problem of how to define a category: Definitions of categories like evidentiality tend to mix up the question of what unifies the category …
(De)coding Modality
Author's Reply - Cross-linguistic Generic Categories Are Linguists' Generalizations
In what follows, I first address Sonia Cristofaro's comment, and subsequently the comment by Ljuba Veselinova
Semantic maps and the identification of cross-linguistic generic categories
The article, Semantic maps and the identification of cross-linguistic generic categories: evidentiality and its relation to epistemic modality, in the journal, Linguistic Discovery, Volume 8, Issue 1, Year 2010
Reference and clausal perception-verb complements
Clausal perception-verb complements are known to show a contrast in meaning between "object of perception" and "knowledge acquired". This contrast has traditionally been analyzed denotationally in terms of a distinction between extra-linguistic entities belonging to two ontologically different types. However, Cognitive Grammar offers an analysis which is based on a distinction between two ways of construing the same conceptual content and does no…
Modality
The term “modality” is used in linguistics for a variety of distinct but related phenomena.
Epistemic Meaning
This book is intended to contribute to the clarification of the linguistic research area covered by the terms modal, evidential and epistemic . It sets out to demonstrate that on cross-linguistic grounds a hitherto overlooked epistemic meaning domain must be given due recognition in linguistic theory, on a par with domains such as time and number. The relevant domain is coherent, but at the same time complex in that it consists of two subdomains:…
A usage-based theory of grammatical status and grammaticalization
This article proposes a new way of understanding grammatical status and grammaticalization as distinctive types of linguistic phenomena. The approach is usage-based and links up structural and functional, as well as synchronic and diachronic, aspects of the issue. The proposal brings a range of previously disparate phenomena into a motivated relationship, while certain well-entrenched criteria (such as 'closed paradigms') are shown to be incident…
Epistemic complementizers
Complementizer Semantics in European Languages
Complementizers may be defined as conjunctions that have the function of identifying clauses as complements. In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that they have additional functions. Some of these functions are semantic in the sense that they represent conventional contributions to the meanings of the complements. The present book puts a focus to these semantic complementizer functions.
Complementizer semantics in the Germanic languages
Contrasting Grammatical and Lexical Determiners
The grammatical-lexical distinction in Chinese aspectual markers
This paper discusses the grammatical-lexical distinction based on Boye and Harder (2012) in the class of aspectual markers in Chinese and aims to decide whether these markers are grammatical or lexical in a theoretically anchored sense. To accomplish this, the language-general criteria proposed in Boye and Harder (2012) are translated into Chinese-specific criteria for diagnosing grammatical vs. lexical status, and these translated criteria are t…
The Meeting Point
Grammar is background in sentence processing
Boye and Harder (2012) claim that the grammatical–lexical distinction has to do with discourse prominence: lexical elements can convey discursively primary (or foreground) information, whereas grammatical elements cannot (outside corrective contexts). This paper reports two experiments that test this claim. Experiment 1 was a letter detection study, in which readers were instructed to mark specific letters in the text. Experiment 2 was a text-cha…
Complement-taking predicates, parentheticals and grammaticalization
Grammaticalization as Conventionalization of Discursively Secondary Status
Despite intense research on grammaticalization, no satisfactory definition has so far been proposed. Some would argue that it is indeed impossible to come up with a precise definition as grammaticalization is an epiphenomenon. After pointing out problems in existing definitions, this article proposes a new definition of grammaticalization as a distinct kind of change. The definition is based not only on the theory of the lexical–grammatical disti…
Evidentiality, discourse prominence and grammaticalization
This paper seeks to answer three questions: (1) What is the difference between grammatical and lexical indications of information source? (2) What qualifies an element for grammaticalization as an evidential? (3) How can we identify grammatical evidentials and instances of evidential grammaticalization? The answers proposed are as follows: (1) The difference between grammatical and lexical indications of information source is a difference between…
Introduction
Through intriguing paths of change, manner expressions may give rise to both quotatives and a diverse range of complementizers. These paths of change are still far from mapped or fully understood, but after years of relative ignorance, they have recently been the subject of increased interest. In this paper, we introduce a special issue the aim of which is to add to the growing knowledge and understanding of the development of manner expressions …
Modality
As a term relating to linguistic categories, modality is used in its most narrow sense to refer to categories that can be defined in terms of the notions of necessity and possibility. A number of broader uses are also common, however. For instance, the term is used also for categories that have to do with the indication of degree of certainty and possibly the indication of information source (a notion associated with the category of evidentiality…
Linguistics (20 works) · Philosophy (20 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (13 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Grammaticalization (6 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 works) · linguistics and terminology studies (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works)