Björn Wiemer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5900762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Björn Wiemer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Björn |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiemer |
| SIGNATURE | WIEMER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6466-2060 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Database of aspect triplets in Polish, Czech and Russian
The article discusses the significance of (bi-imperfective) aspect triplets in the aspect systems of Slavic languages, concerning both their status in the contemporary stages and their significance in the evolution of these systems. From either of these perspectives, the determination of aspect triplets crucially hinges on the role assigned to Natural Perfectives, i.e. perfective stems whose prefixes show some semantic overlap with meaning compon…
Polish jakoby
Of similative origin, Polish jakoby derives from the connective jako ‘how, that’ univerbated with the irrealis enclitic by . From the earliest attested stages (late 14th century) into the 17th century, jakoby was used as a comparison marker and as a subordinator of manner or purpose clauses. The former use has persisted, and the latter was ousted. After the 16th century jakoby further evolved into a reportive marker, as a particle or complementiz…
How morphologically related synonyms come to make up a paradigm
The Slavic perfective (pfv): imperfective (ipfv) opposition is based on stem derivation. It creates a complex network of functions for finite and non-finite forms, which largely applies regardless of aspectual pairedness (and actionality groups), since this opposition has classificatory properties. However, can derivationally related stems claimed to represent identical lexical concepts be treated as representatives of one or of two paradigms? Th…
Evidentials and Epistemic Modality
This chapter deals with the relation between the notional domains of information source and epistemic modality. It surveys various approaches to this relation and the cross-linguistic patterns of the way in which linguistic units (of diverse formats) with evidential or epistemic meanings develop extensions whereby they encroach into each other’s domains. Meaning extensions in either direction can adequately be captured, and confusion between both…
Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics
Baltic languages have only marginally featured in the discourse of theoretical linguistics and linguistic typology. The book aims to reconnect Baltic linguistics and the current agenda of the theoretical and typological study of language. The book is intended for a broad linguistic audience, including typologists and theoretical linguists.
Studies on evidentiality marking in West and South Slavic
Contemporary Approaches to Dialectology
This volume brings together studies from different fields of dialectology with a focus on contemporary methods and understudied subfields. The collection comprises articles on dialectal grammar, historical dialectology, language contact, and theoretical approaches to dialectal variation, as well as sociolinguistic descriptions of particular vernaculars based on first-hand data. Furthermore, the collection addresses central questions in the field,…
Mora da as a marker of modal meanings in Macedonian
The article presents a semasiological case study of the Macedonian modal mora , which derives from the common South Slavic modal verb morati ‘must’, and its collocation with the morpheme da , which is the probably most prominent non-factivity marker of Macedonian used in a broad variety of syntactic functions: as a complementiser, as a main clause marker in “insubordination” phenomena (with hortative and optative functions) as well as a morpheme …
Grammaticalization in Slavic languages
This article examines the grammaticalisation developments in Slavic languages. The functions of the past tenses lost in northern Slavic are only partially covered by the younger opposition of perfective and imperfective aspect. The only new classes of morphemes that arose in some sub-areas of Slavic are the definite and the indefinite article, both with preliminary, not-yet-grammaticalised stages in some more Slavic varieties. In sum, in Slavic g…
On Conditions Instantiating Tip Effects of Epistemic and Evidential Meanings in Bulgarian
The article deals with tip effects between evidential and epistemic components in the meaning potential of evidential markers in Bulgarian, the focus being on sentential adverbs with inferential functions. We justify (and start with) the following assumptions: (i) for any unit we should distinguish its stable semantic meaning from its pragmatic potential which can be favored (or disfavored) by appropriate discourse conditions; (ii) there is a tra…
Manifestations of areal convergence in rural Belarusian spoken in the Baltic-Slavic contact zone
This article combines methods and insights from dialect geography, areal and contact linguistics. It focuses on a specific, yet heavily understudied mixed dialect of Belarusian spoken in the entire Slavic-Baltic contact region. It turns out that on practically all levels (from phonetics to syntax), the variation of features encountered in this dialect is, from all varieties of that region, the most representative for convergence phenomena charact…
The database of evidential markers in European languages. A bird’s eye view of the conception of the database (the template and problems hidden beneath it)
This introduction not only browses through the contributions of the whole issue, but also attempts to set the stage for a cross-linguistically unified study of evidentiality markers to be registered in a database. This endeavor has so far been restricted to European languages. We assume evidentiality to be a conceptual domain and, on this basis, want to account for diverse units irrespective of their morphological format and status in the particu…
Lithuanian esą — a heterosemic reportive marker in its contemporary stage
From the syntactic point of view, esą is the most diversified Lithuanian evidential marker of all as it covers uses not only in regular paradigms, but also as a function word. This stage can be captured by the notion of heterosemy. Diachronically esą derives from the former neuter of the present active participle of būti ‘to be’, which is homonymous with the regular nom.pl.m form of the same participle. In contemporary Lithuanian, esą has also be…
Grammatical evidentiality in Lithuanian (a typological assessment)
LIETUVIŲ KALBOS EVIDENCIALUMO GRAMATINĖ RAIŠKA (TIPOLOGINIS POŽIŪRIS) Straipsnyje apžvelgiamos ir įvertinamos tipologiškai lietuvių kalbos gramatinės priemonės evidencialumui reikšti. Apsiribota bendrine kalba. Evidencialumas suprantamas kaip visuma reikšmių, rodančių šaltinį ar pagrindą, kuriuo kalbėtojas remiasi perteikdamas informaciją. Nuo evidencialumo skirtinas episteminis modalumas (kaip kalbėtojas vertina informaciją). Lietuvių kalboje ev…
What makes Grammaticalization?
The status of grammaticalization has been the subject of many controversial discussions. The contributions to What makes Grammaticalization? approach the prevalent phenomenon from the angle of language structure and focus on the interrelation between the levels of phonology, pragmatics (inference), discourse and the lexicon and some of them try to integrate the areal perspective. A wealth of data from Slavonic languages as well as from languages …
Dialect and language contacts on the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 15th century until 1939
When Systematic Evolution Prevails over Idiosyncrasies … Some Reflections on Neil Bermel
Lexikologie und Sprachveranderung in der Slavia
Narrative Units and the Temporal Organization of Ordinary Discourse
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Narrative Units and the Temporal Organization of Ordinary Discourse
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When Systematic Evolution Prevails over Idiosyncrasies … Some Reflections on Neil Bermel
Lexikologie und Sprachveranderung in der Slavia
Dialect and language contacts on the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 15th century until 1939
What makes Grammaticalization?
The status of grammaticalization has been the subject of many controversial discussions. The contributions to What makes Grammaticalization? approach the prevalent phenomenon from the angle of language structure and focus on the interrelation between the levels of phonology, pragmatics (inference), discourse and the lexicon and some of them try to integrate the areal perspective. A wealth of data from Slavonic languages as well as from languages …
Grammatical evidentiality in Lithuanian (a typological assessment)
LIETUVIŲ KALBOS EVIDENCIALUMO GRAMATINĖ RAIŠKA (TIPOLOGINIS POŽIŪRIS) Straipsnyje apžvelgiamos ir įvertinamos tipologiškai lietuvių kalbos gramatinės priemonės evidencialumui reikšti. Apsiribota bendrine kalba. Evidencialumas suprantamas kaip visuma reikšmių, rodančių šaltinį ar pagrindą, kuriuo kalbėtojas remiasi perteikdamas informaciją. Nuo evidencialumo skirtinas episteminis modalumas (kaip kalbėtojas vertina informaciją). Lietuvių kalboje ev…
The database of evidential markers in European languages. A bird’s eye view of the conception of the database (the template and problems hidden beneath it)
This introduction not only browses through the contributions of the whole issue, but also attempts to set the stage for a cross-linguistically unified study of evidentiality markers to be registered in a database. This endeavor has so far been restricted to European languages. We assume evidentiality to be a conceptual domain and, on this basis, want to account for diverse units irrespective of their morphological format and status in the particu…
Lithuanian esą — a heterosemic reportive marker in its contemporary stage
From the syntactic point of view, esą is the most diversified Lithuanian evidential marker of all as it covers uses not only in regular paradigms, but also as a function word. This stage can be captured by the notion of heterosemy. Diachronically esą derives from the former neuter of the present active participle of būti ‘to be’, which is homonymous with the regular nom.pl.m form of the same participle. In contemporary Lithuanian, esą has also be…
Manifestations of areal convergence in rural Belarusian spoken in the Baltic-Slavic contact zone
This article combines methods and insights from dialect geography, areal and contact linguistics. It focuses on a specific, yet heavily understudied mixed dialect of Belarusian spoken in the entire Slavic-Baltic contact region. It turns out that on practically all levels (from phonetics to syntax), the variation of features encountered in this dialect is, from all varieties of that region, the most representative for convergence phenomena charact…
Grammaticalization in Slavic languages
This article examines the grammaticalisation developments in Slavic languages. The functions of the past tenses lost in northern Slavic are only partially covered by the younger opposition of perfective and imperfective aspect. The only new classes of morphemes that arose in some sub-areas of Slavic are the definite and the indefinite article, both with preliminary, not-yet-grammaticalised stages in some more Slavic varieties. In sum, in Slavic g…
On Conditions Instantiating Tip Effects of Epistemic and Evidential Meanings in Bulgarian
The article deals with tip effects between evidential and epistemic components in the meaning potential of evidential markers in Bulgarian, the focus being on sentential adverbs with inferential functions. We justify (and start with) the following assumptions: (i) for any unit we should distinguish its stable semantic meaning from its pragmatic potential which can be favored (or disfavored) by appropriate discourse conditions; (ii) there is a tra…
Contemporary Approaches to Dialectology
This volume brings together studies from different fields of dialectology with a focus on contemporary methods and understudied subfields. The collection comprises articles on dialectal grammar, historical dialectology, language contact, and theoretical approaches to dialectal variation, as well as sociolinguistic descriptions of particular vernaculars based on first-hand data. Furthermore, the collection addresses central questions in the field,…
Mora da as a marker of modal meanings in Macedonian
The article presents a semasiological case study of the Macedonian modal mora , which derives from the common South Slavic modal verb morati ‘must’, and its collocation with the morpheme da , which is the probably most prominent non-factivity marker of Macedonian used in a broad variety of syntactic functions: as a complementiser, as a main clause marker in “insubordination” phenomena (with hortative and optative functions) as well as a morpheme …
Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics
Baltic languages have only marginally featured in the discourse of theoretical linguistics and linguistic typology. The book aims to reconnect Baltic linguistics and the current agenda of the theoretical and typological study of language. The book is intended for a broad linguistic audience, including typologists and theoretical linguists.
Studies on evidentiality marking in West and South Slavic
Evidentials and Epistemic Modality
This chapter deals with the relation between the notional domains of information source and epistemic modality. It surveys various approaches to this relation and the cross-linguistic patterns of the way in which linguistic units (of diverse formats) with evidential or epistemic meanings develop extensions whereby they encroach into each other’s domains. Meaning extensions in either direction can adequately be captured, and confusion between both…
How morphologically related synonyms come to make up a paradigm
The Slavic perfective (pfv): imperfective (ipfv) opposition is based on stem derivation. It creates a complex network of functions for finite and non-finite forms, which largely applies regardless of aspectual pairedness (and actionality groups), since this opposition has classificatory properties. However, can derivationally related stems claimed to represent identical lexical concepts be treated as representatives of one or of two paradigms? Th…
Polish jakoby
Of similative origin, Polish jakoby derives from the connective jako ‘how, that’ univerbated with the irrealis enclitic by . From the earliest attested stages (late 14th century) into the 17th century, jakoby was used as a comparison marker and as a subordinator of manner or purpose clauses. The former use has persisted, and the latter was ousted. After the 16th century jakoby further evolved into a reportive marker, as a particle or complementiz…
Database of aspect triplets in Polish, Czech and Russian
The article discusses the significance of (bi-imperfective) aspect triplets in the aspect systems of Slavic languages, concerning both their status in the contemporary stages and their significance in the evolution of these systems. From either of these perspectives, the determination of aspect triplets crucially hinges on the role assigned to Natural Perfectives, i.e. perfective stems whose prefixes show some semantic overlap with meaning compon…
Linguistics (19 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (11 works) · History (9 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (7 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (5 works) · Geography (4 works)