Alexander Bergs
Biographic Data
| ID | 9306015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Bergs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Bergs |
| SIGNATURE | BERGS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
From constructional innovation to linguistic change
On the basis of Present-day English corpus data, this paper investigates deliberate, adaptive linguistic innovations from a constructional perspective. The concrete phenomena addressed include the XYZ construction (“Copenhagen is the Paris of Denmark”), the X be not the Y- est Z in the Q construction (“He’s not the sharpest tool in the shed”), extrasentential not (“This is nice. Not.”), X much (“racist much?”), and the because X construction (“be…
Lynn Anthonissen
Language is a tricky thing.On the one hand, it's a matter of convention, of speech communities and their shared communicative systems.On the other hand, it's a cognitive activity of individual speakers, and no two people talk alike.How do these two levels interact?What is the relationship between the macro speech community and its language, and the micro level of individual speakers and their language?For a long time, linguists have shunned that …
Language change across a lifetime
This paper focuses on the micro-analysis of historical data, which allows us to investigate language use across the lifetime of individual speakers. Certain concepts, such as social network analysis or communities of practice, put individual speakers and their social embeddedness and dynamicity at the center of attention. This means that intra-speaker variation can be described and analyzed in quite some detail in certain historical data sets. Th…
As if irony was in stock
The linguistic treatment of verbal irony 1 has more often than not focused on novel, ad hoc ironies. Research in the last decade, however, suggests that there is a considerable number of utterances that are either schematic or lexically filled and interpreted as ironic by convention. By analyzing three of these, i.e. Tell me about it, XP pro BE not ( A Michelangelo he is not ) and stand-alone insubordinate as if ( As if anyone could pronounce tha…
On historical language contact in English and its types
This article presents the state of the art of current research on the different types of language contact in early English. The article’s main aim is to show what kinds of phenomena have been investigated until now as possible areas of transfer/borrowing from other languages. We examine the main contact scenarios in Old and Middle English, which involve Latin, Celtic, French and Old Norse. We locate unanswered questions and underexamined hypothes…
Old English
Russi, Cinzia
Multimodality and construction grammar
The meaning-making process in face-to-face interaction relies on the integration of meaningful information being conveyed by speech as well as the tone of voice, facial expressions, hand and head gestures, body postures and movements (McNeill 1992; Kendon 2004). Hence, it is inherently multimodal. Usage-based linguistics attributes language use a fundamental role in linguistic theorizing by positing that the language system is grounded in and abs…
Response to Traugott
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Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 34.1
Constructions and Language Change
Letters
This paper explores the question how far “letters” as one specific text type can be subdivided into smaller groups of texts (i.e. subtypes such as “requests”, “orders”, or “reports”) on the basis of socio-psychological and pragmatic dimensions and factors, including speech act and accommodation theory. This paper argues that this differentiation into socio-pragmatic subtypes actually can be made and that these subtypes materialize in significant …
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Letters
This paper explores the question how far “letters” as one specific text type can be subdivided into smaller groups of texts (i.e. subtypes such as “requests”, “orders”, or “reports”) on the basis of socio-psychological and pragmatic dimensions and factors, including speech act and accommodation theory. This paper argues that this differentiation into socio-pragmatic subtypes actually can be made and that these subtypes materialize in significant …
Constructions and Language Change
Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 34.1
Response to Traugott
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Old English
Russi, Cinzia
Multimodality and construction grammar
The meaning-making process in face-to-face interaction relies on the integration of meaningful information being conveyed by speech as well as the tone of voice, facial expressions, hand and head gestures, body postures and movements (McNeill 1992; Kendon 2004). Hence, it is inherently multimodal. Usage-based linguistics attributes language use a fundamental role in linguistic theorizing by positing that the language system is grounded in and abs…
On historical language contact in English and its types
This article presents the state of the art of current research on the different types of language contact in early English. The article’s main aim is to show what kinds of phenomena have been investigated until now as possible areas of transfer/borrowing from other languages. We examine the main contact scenarios in Old and Middle English, which involve Latin, Celtic, French and Old Norse. We locate unanswered questions and underexamined hypothes…
Language change across a lifetime
This paper focuses on the micro-analysis of historical data, which allows us to investigate language use across the lifetime of individual speakers. Certain concepts, such as social network analysis or communities of practice, put individual speakers and their social embeddedness and dynamicity at the center of attention. This means that intra-speaker variation can be described and analyzed in quite some detail in certain historical data sets. Th…
As if irony was in stock
The linguistic treatment of verbal irony 1 has more often than not focused on novel, ad hoc ironies. Research in the last decade, however, suggests that there is a considerable number of utterances that are either schematic or lexically filled and interpreted as ironic by convention. By analyzing three of these, i.e. Tell me about it, XP pro BE not ( A Michelangelo he is not ) and stand-alone insubordinate as if ( As if anyone could pronounce tha…
Lynn Anthonissen
Language is a tricky thing.On the one hand, it's a matter of convention, of speech communities and their shared communicative systems.On the other hand, it's a cognitive activity of individual speakers, and no two people talk alike.How do these two levels interact?What is the relationship between the macro speech community and its language, and the micro level of individual speakers and their language?For a long time, linguists have shunned that …
From constructional innovation to linguistic change
On the basis of Present-day English corpus data, this paper investigates deliberate, adaptive linguistic innovations from a constructional perspective. The concrete phenomena addressed include the XYZ construction (“Copenhagen is the Paris of Denmark”), the X be not the Y- est Z in the Q construction (“He’s not the sharpest tool in the shed”), extrasentential not (“This is nice. Not.”), X much (“racist much?”), and the because X construction (“be…
Linguistics (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · History (5 works) · Language change (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)