Berit Johannsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5191050 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Berit Johannsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Berit |
| FAMILY NAME | Johannsen |
| SIGNATURE | JOHANNSEN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-4076-336X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Xinyue Yao
Article Xinyue Yao: The present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English. A corpus-based study of grammatical change was published on November 1, 2025 in the journal Folia Linguistica (volume 59, issue s46-s1)
Trans is an adjective’ – metalinguistic discourse on the use of trans on Twitter
This study analyses the metalinguistic discourse on trans and the utterance trans is an adjective on Twitter between 2009 and 2022. The aim is to find out which metalinguistic statements about trans and its usage appear in tweets linked to the trans is an adjective discourse and which assumptions about trans and its usage become evident in these statements, to then establish how these statements and assumptions are linked to trans-inclusive and t…
She has a stadium named after her
In English, sequences consisting of the verb have , a noun phrase and a past participle vary in meaning. This meaning variation has been discussed both in the context of grammatical description and language change, mostly based on a handful of examples. This study seeks to combine theoretical and methodological approaches from construction grammar and interactional linguistics in the description of this meaning variation. Theoretically, this impl…
Between Causative and Passive
This brief discussion paper is concerned with the sequence [ have NP V pp ] and its distinction into a causative and a passive construction, which hinges on the (non-)agentivity of the subject participant, so that the sequence can be seen as ambiguous in that respect. Instead of analyzing these uses as two different constructions, I propose a unified analysis as instances of the affactive construction. This construction has the functional potenti…
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Between Causative and Passive
This brief discussion paper is concerned with the sequence [ have NP V pp ] and its distinction into a causative and a passive construction, which hinges on the (non-)agentivity of the subject participant, so that the sequence can be seen as ambiguous in that respect. Instead of analyzing these uses as two different constructions, I propose a unified analysis as instances of the affactive construction. This construction has the functional potenti…
She has a stadium named after her
In English, sequences consisting of the verb have , a noun phrase and a past participle vary in meaning. This meaning variation has been discussed both in the context of grammatical description and language change, mostly based on a handful of examples. This study seeks to combine theoretical and methodological approaches from construction grammar and interactional linguistics in the description of this meaning variation. Theoretically, this impl…
Trans is an adjective’ – metalinguistic discourse on the use of trans on Twitter
This study analyses the metalinguistic discourse on trans and the utterance trans is an adjective on Twitter between 2009 and 2022. The aim is to find out which metalinguistic statements about trans and its usage appear in tweets linked to the trans is an adjective discourse and which assumptions about trans and its usage become evident in these statements, to then establish how these statements and assumptions are linked to trans-inclusive and t…
Xinyue Yao
Article Xinyue Yao: The present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English. A corpus-based study of grammatical change was published on November 1, 2025 in the journal Folia Linguistica (volume 59, issue s46-s1)
Psychology (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · Grammar (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Noun (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)