Göran Kjellmer
Biographic Data
| ID | 736432 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Göran Kjellmer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Göran |
| FAMILY NAME | Kjellmer |
| SIGNATURE | KJELLMER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Where do we backchannel
The paper investigates a sample of ‘backchannels’, a kind of response item, in the Cobuild Corpus. Its object is to chart the occurrence of backchannels in modern English speech, and especially to find out if they can indicate how much of a language sequence is needed for a listener to understand the intended message. The sequences into which backchannels are inserted and their insertion points are therefore classified, and the fairly numerous se…
Is There a Relative Adverb There in Modern English
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGöran KjellmerGöran Kjellmer is at the Department of English, University of Göteborg, Sweden
Troublesome Relatives”
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGöran KjellmerGöran Kjellmeris a member of the Department of English, Göteborg University, Sweden
Certain uncertainties
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGöran KjellmerGöran Kjellmer is at the University of Göteborg, Sweden
On Greek rho
In Byzantine writings, the Greek letter rho, which represents the /r/ phoneme, regularly has an aspiration mark in word-initial position and when geminated. Because of closely parallel phenomena in such widely different languages as Brazilian Portuguese and Västergötland Swedish it is suggested as an explanation that the Greek /r/ phoneme had two allophones, a front (apical) one and a back (uvular or velar) one, the latter occurring when the phon…
A modal shock absorber, empathiser/emphasiser and qualifier
The modal auxiliary can occasionally occurs, as it seems redundantly, in sentences like “I can promise that you'll like it”, a usage that has sometimes been difficult to explain. Its occurrence in the CobuildDirect Corpus is here investigated, and it appears that it typically occurs with three types of verbs: performative verbs, verbs of perception and verbs of mental processes. Far from being redundant, it carries out a number of important funct…
On Serb and Serbian
GÖRAN KJELLMER reviews the recent use of two synonyms that may be more – or less – than synonymous
A hundred (and) fifty
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No Work Will Spoil a Child
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Potential words
In this study of neologisms a distinction is made between words which have become part of a language (here, English), and those which can do so. The former is, of course, a subset of the latter, and the question is addressed as to how and why potential words become adoped words. Several semantic, phonological, morphological, and graphematic factors, as well as a few non-linguistic ones, are identified as influencing a potential word's chances of …
Goner
No question
The dog that's leg was run over
L'A. retrace les differents aspects de l'usage du pronom anglais that et examine la place de cette forme dans le systeme des pronoms relatifs en anglais
Unstable fricatives
There has been an almost century-long debate about the origin of Gothic pliuhan 'to flee' and its relations to semantically cognate words like Old English flēon, Old High German fliohan and Old Icelandic flýia. Traditionally it has been assumed that fl- developed out of pl-, and that the Gothic word hence represents a more original state than the West and North Germanic forms, but another school of thought contends that the change took place in t…
Old as he was
Even if and even though ∗
What a night on which to die!’ On symmetry in English relative clauses∗
(1988). ‘What a night on which to die!’ On symmetry in English relative clauses. English Studies: Vol. 69, No. 6, pp. 559-568
Us Anglos are a cut above the field’
(1986). ‘Us Anglos are a cut above the field’: On objective pronouns in nominative contexts. English Studies: Vol. 67, No. 5, pp. 445-449
Help to/help ⊘ revisited
On the grammatical number of relative what ∗
A contemporary semantic clash 1
What to do? on non‐finite direct questions in English∗
Each other and one another
There is no hiding you in the house’
On clause‐introductory nor and neither 1
(1979). On clause‐introductory nor and neither. English Studies: Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 280-295
Where do we backchannel
The paper investigates a sample of ‘backchannels’, a kind of response item, in the Cobuild Corpus. Its object is to chart the occurrence of backchannels in modern English speech, and especially to find out if they can indicate how much of a language sequence is needed for a listener to understand the intended message. The sequences into which backchannels are inserted and their insertion points are therefore classified, and the fairly numerous se…
The dog that's leg was run over
L'A. retrace les differents aspects de l'usage du pronom anglais that et examine la place de cette forme dans le systeme des pronoms relatifs en anglais
Potential words
In this study of neologisms a distinction is made between words which have become part of a language (here, English), and those which can do so. The former is, of course, a subset of the latter, and the question is addressed as to how and why potential words become adoped words. Several semantic, phonological, morphological, and graphematic factors, as well as a few non-linguistic ones, are identified as influencing a potential word's chances of …
Help to/help ⊘ revisited
Even if and even though ∗
Us Anglos are a cut above the field’
(1986). ‘Us Anglos are a cut above the field’: On objective pronouns in nominative contexts. English Studies: Vol. 67, No. 5, pp. 445-449
No question
Unstable fricatives
There has been an almost century-long debate about the origin of Gothic pliuhan 'to flee' and its relations to semantically cognate words like Old English flēon, Old High German fliohan and Old Icelandic flýia. Traditionally it has been assumed that fl- developed out of pl-, and that the Gothic word hence represents a more original state than the West and North Germanic forms, but another school of thought contends that the change took place in t…
Old as he was
Each other and one another
There is no hiding you in the house’
The Weather was fine, if not Glorious’
(1975). ‘The Weather was fine, if not Glorious’: On the ambiguity of concessive if not. English Studies: Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 140-146
On prestige and prestigious
The Weather was fine, if not Glorious’
(1975). ‘The Weather was fine, if not Glorious’: On the ambiguity of concessive if not. English Studies: Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 140-146
Why is Winnie The pooh? On the use of the definite article in some english personal names 1
On clause‐introductory nor and neither 1
(1979). On clause‐introductory nor and neither. English Studies: Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 280-295
There is no hiding you in the house’
What to do? on non‐finite direct questions in English∗
Each other and one another
A contemporary semantic clash 1
On the grammatical number of relative what ∗
Help to/help ⊘ revisited
Us Anglos are a cut above the field’
(1986). ‘Us Anglos are a cut above the field’: On objective pronouns in nominative contexts. English Studies: Vol. 67, No. 5, pp. 445-449
What a night on which to die!’ On symmetry in English relative clauses∗
(1988). ‘What a night on which to die!’ On symmetry in English relative clauses. English Studies: Vol. 69, No. 6, pp. 559-568
Even if and even though ∗
Old as he was
The dog that's leg was run over
L'A. retrace les differents aspects de l'usage du pronom anglais that et examine la place de cette forme dans le systeme des pronoms relatifs en anglais
Unstable fricatives
There has been an almost century-long debate about the origin of Gothic pliuhan 'to flee' and its relations to semantically cognate words like Old English flēon, Old High German fliohan and Old Icelandic flýia. Traditionally it has been assumed that fl- developed out of pl-, and that the Gothic word hence represents a more original state than the West and North Germanic forms, but another school of thought contends that the change took place in t…
No question
Goner
On Serb and Serbian
GÖRAN KJELLMER reviews the recent use of two synonyms that may be more – or less – than synonymous
A hundred (and) fifty
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
No Work Will Spoil a Child
Preview this article: No Work Will Spoil a Child: On Ambiguous Negation, Corpus Work, and Linguistic Argument, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/ijcl.5.2.02kje-1.gif
Potential words
In this study of neologisms a distinction is made between words which have become part of a language (here, English), and those which can do so. The former is, of course, a subset of the latter, and the question is addressed as to how and why potential words become adoped words. Several semantic, phonological, morphological, and graphematic factors, as well as a few non-linguistic ones, are identified as influencing a potential word's chances of …
A modal shock absorber, empathiser/emphasiser and qualifier
The modal auxiliary can occasionally occurs, as it seems redundantly, in sentences like “I can promise that you'll like it”, a usage that has sometimes been difficult to explain. Its occurrence in the CobuildDirect Corpus is here investigated, and it appears that it typically occurs with three types of verbs: performative verbs, verbs of perception and verbs of mental processes. Far from being redundant, it carries out a number of important funct…
On Greek rho
In Byzantine writings, the Greek letter rho, which represents the /r/ phoneme, regularly has an aspiration mark in word-initial position and when geminated. Because of closely parallel phenomena in such widely different languages as Brazilian Portuguese and Västergötland Swedish it is suggested as an explanation that the Greek /r/ phoneme had two allophones, a front (apical) one and a back (uvular or velar) one, the latter occurring when the phon…
Certain uncertainties
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGöran KjellmerGöran Kjellmer is at the University of Göteborg, Sweden
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