Malte Rosemeyer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1453874 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Malte Rosemeyer |
| PRENOMES | Malte |
| SOBRENOME | Rosemeyer |
| ASSINATURA | ROSEMEYER M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Freiburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5348-561X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Cómo va a ser posible?
We analyze the use and distribution of Spanish synthetic and periphrastic future-inflected wh -interrogatives in a corpus of informal Spanish conversations, within Linell’s (2009) Dialogical Theory of Language. Our corpus analysis reveals that future-inflected interrogatives realize three types of discourse functions: information requests, interactional challenges, and requests for inference, each clearly distinguishable in terms of their distrib…
Accountability and type-fittedness as indicators of conditional relevance in interaction
In this paper, we analyze sequences of proposals for joint future action in German conversations, with the aim of capturing participants’ orientations towards conditional relevance (CR). We establish a data-driven operationalization of CR on the basis of different design-features of the proposals such as interrogativity, modal verbs ( wollen, sollen, können ), modal particles, and inbreath as well as by including contextual features, such as repe…
The test of time
In grammaticalization studies, reanalysis is understood as the assignment of new meaning to formally unchanged elements, supported by bridging contexts compatible with the old and the reanalyzed meaning. The source determination hypothesis (SDH) predicts that parallel grammaticalization trajectories occur crosslinguistically, as similar source meanings give rise to similar inferences. One such pattern is the development of recent past markers fro…
A computational approach to mapping replacement processes in language change
This paper explores the advantages of using Latent Class Analysis (LCA) as a computational approach to mapping replacement in language change. Historical linguistics assumes that when a construction replaces another construction, this process is gradual, affecting certain usage contexts before others. This model of replacement predicts that these usage contexts play a greater role for the decrease in usage frequency of the replaced construction t…
Data-driven identification of situated meanings in corpus data using Latent Class Analysis
Identifying the meanings of grammatical elements in context is a major challenge for corpus-linguistic studies of grammatical variation. This study proposes a novel solution to this problem. I describe the situated meanings of grammatical elements as latent constructs, i.e., social concepts that cannot be observed directly but need to be inferred from the way that speakers behave. I use Latent Class Analysis (LCA) to create a data-driven typology…
Dialogical and monological functions of the discourse marker bueno in spoken and written Spanish
The Spanish discourse marker bueno has multiple functions ranging from the expression of (dis)agreement to topic management. The present paper sets out to explore what happens when bueno starts to be used in written monological contexts. We examine the use of bueno in spoken sociolinguistic interviews and written internet texts in Mexican and Peninsular Spanish. We propose a unified account of the different functions of bueno based on preference …
Asyndetic complementation and referential integration in Spanish
This paper examines a distinctive syntactic feature of (pre)classical Spanish: asyndetic complementation (without complementizer que ‘that’). While many authors regard this construction as a stylistic variant which eventually declined (i.a., Girón 2005 ), so far no exhaustive morphosyntactic study of the phenomenon has been presented, as previous works either have focused on only one predicate ( Blas Arroyo & Porcar Miralles 2016 , 2018 ) or do n…
Reforming the Spanish Future Subjunctive
How sentence type influences the interpretation of Spanish future constructions
It is well known that Spanish futurizing morphology is frequently used not to express futurity, but instead to formulate a hypothesis, i.e. express epistemic modality. Although this is possible with both synthetic or periphrastic future marking, the synthetic future tense is more likely to express an epistemic reading than the periphrastic future. This paper explores the relationship between futurizing morphology and sentence type on the basis of…
Modeling the discourse pragmatics of interrogatives
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Two Types of Constructionalization Processes in Spanish and Portuguese Clefted wh -interrogatives
The present paper analyzes and compares the use of clefted wh -interrogatives in spoken Madrid Spanish, Puerto Rican Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. In a first step, a typology of the discourse functions of clefted wh -interrogatives is established. This typology is partially governed by the strength of the presupposition of the proposition of the wh -interrogative. The results suggest the existence of two distinct constructionalization process…
On cause and correlation in language change
Studies of language change frequently wrestle with the problem of cause and correlation. It is comparatively simple to observe a correlation between historical trends. However, it is much more difficult to demonstrate that the changes in the frequency of a construction A were indeed the cause of the changes in the frequency of a construction B. We present a statistical method that can help to assess whether two historical changes are not only cor…
De la consecución a la contraexpectación
Este artículo describe el desarrollo histórico de las construcciones lograr/conseguir + inf (p. ej., Pedro ha logrado ganar el premio ). Basándonos en el análisis de casi 3000 ocurrencias fechadas entre 1700 y 2005, mostramos que lograr / conseguir + inf han experimentado un proceso de construccionalización, por el cual, desde significados de consecución o logro, adquirieron lecturas modales de capacidad (‘ser capaz de hacer X’) y contraexpectaci…
Actual and apparent change in Brazilian Portuguese wh -interrogatives
Previous studies on the diachrony of wh -interrogation in Brazilian Portuguese have observed a replacement process of ex-situ- wh interrogatives by cleft- wh and in-situ- wh interrogatives in the twentieth century. The present study analyzes almost 19,000 wh -interrogatives from a corpus of theater plays dated between 1800 and 2016, demonstrating that not all of these frequency changes constitute actual change. The increase in the usage frequency…
Echoic and non-echoic confirming affirmative responses in spoken Brazilian Portuguese
When “Questions“ are not Questions. Inferences and Conventionalization in Spanish But-Prefaced Partial Interrogatives
The present paper analyzes the discourse-pragmatic function of introducing Spanish qué ‘what’- interrogatives with the concessive connective pero ‘but’. In some contexts, a pero-preface contributes to the interpretation of the interrogative as the realization of an interactional challenge rather than a request for information (e.g. an information question). We explore the inferential processes by which the peropreface leads to an interpretation o…
Inferences in Interaction and Language Change
Utterances usually convey more meaning than is expressed. This 'surplus' of meaning can be explained by the process of inferencing. A typical definition is given, for example, by Huang, who defines inference as the "process of accepting a statement or proposition (called the conclusion) on the basis of the (possibly provisional) acceptance of one or more other statements or propositions (called the premises)" (Huang 2011: 397). This definition re…
Refunctionalization and Usage Frequency
This paper explores the relationship between refunctionalization and usage frequency. In particular, it argues that (a) refunctionalization is more likely for low-frequency construction than high-frequency constructions, and that (b) high-frequency patterns are more likely candidates as models for refunctionalization processes than low-frequency patterns. It proposes that folk etymology processes be characterized as a type of refunctionalization …
The road to auxiliariness revisited
Auxiliary verbs are known to grammaticalize from lexical verbs, but how do lexical verbs acquire verbal complements to begin with? This article provides an account of the semantic and pragmatic basis of grammaticalization of the Spanish anterior (‘perfect’) [ acabar + de + infinitive] from a lexical source construction meaning finish . Based on a description of finish in terms of its qualia structure, we argue that verbs meaning finish are lexica…
A match made in heaven
This study applies multinomial regression analysis to a parallel corpus of Spanish medieval translations of the Bible in order to study the different factors that condition variation in the expression of possession in Old Spanish. Our methodology allows us to determine the degree to which less frequent possessive constructions (ART + POSS, as in la su casa ‘the his house’; GEN, as in la casa de él ‘the house of him’; and ART/BARE, as in la casa ‘…
The development of iterative verbal periphrases in Romance
This paper compares the diachronic development of tornar(e)+a+infinitive (henceforth abbreviated RETURN+INF) constructions in Spanish, Catalan, and Italian, a topic that especially for Catalan and Italian has not received much attention. I develop and explore the hypothesis that due to their lexical origin, iterative constructions develop from a restitutive to a repetitive function. A diachronic analysis of a corpus of RETURN+INF tokens from the …
Auxiliary Selection Revisited
A central debate about the description of auxiliary selection concerns the regularity of auxiliary selection from a typological perspective. Thus, studies of auxiliary selection have both stressed the fact that certain recurrent parameters are highly relevant to the description of auxiliary selection, whereas other studies demonstrate significant differences in auxiliary selection systems. By integrating the synchronic and diachronic levels of li…
How to measure replacement
© 2012 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston. Studies of the development of compound tense auxiliary selection in Spanish frequently analyse ser ('to be') + past participle (PtP) as an anterior construction, and its disappearance as a slow replacement process starting in Old Spanish, in which the new anterior auxiliary aver ('to have') replaced it. This article investigates and rejects the empirical basis for this claim on the basis of a comparative…
Actual and apparent change in Brazilian Portuguese wh -interrogatives
Previous studies on the diachrony of wh -interrogation in Brazilian Portuguese have observed a replacement process of ex-situ- wh interrogatives by cleft- wh and in-situ- wh interrogatives in the twentieth century. The present study analyzes almost 19,000 wh -interrogatives from a corpus of theater plays dated between 1800 and 2016, demonstrating that not all of these frequency changes constitute actual change. The increase in the usage frequency…
A match made in heaven
This study applies multinomial regression analysis to a parallel corpus of Spanish medieval translations of the Bible in order to study the different factors that condition variation in the expression of possession in Old Spanish. Our methodology allows us to determine the degree to which less frequent possessive constructions (ART + POSS, as in la su casa ‘the his house’; GEN, as in la casa de él ‘the house of him’; and ART/BARE, as in la casa ‘…
Echoic and non-echoic confirming affirmative responses in spoken Brazilian Portuguese
The development of iterative verbal periphrases in Romance
This paper compares the diachronic development of tornar(e)+a+infinitive (henceforth abbreviated RETURN+INF) constructions in Spanish, Catalan, and Italian, a topic that especially for Catalan and Italian has not received much attention. I develop and explore the hypothesis that due to their lexical origin, iterative constructions develop from a restitutive to a repetitive function. A diachronic analysis of a corpus of RETURN+INF tokens from the …
How to measure replacement
© 2012 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston. Studies of the development of compound tense auxiliary selection in Spanish frequently analyse ser ('to be') + past participle (PtP) as an anterior construction, and its disappearance as a slow replacement process starting in Old Spanish, in which the new anterior auxiliary aver ('to have') replaced it. This article investigates and rejects the empirical basis for this claim on the basis of a comparative…
Auxiliary Selection Revisited
A central debate about the description of auxiliary selection concerns the regularity of auxiliary selection from a typological perspective. Thus, studies of auxiliary selection have both stressed the fact that certain recurrent parameters are highly relevant to the description of auxiliary selection, whereas other studies demonstrate significant differences in auxiliary selection systems. By integrating the synchronic and diachronic levels of li…
A match made in heaven
This study applies multinomial regression analysis to a parallel corpus of Spanish medieval translations of the Bible in order to study the different factors that condition variation in the expression of possession in Old Spanish. Our methodology allows us to determine the degree to which less frequent possessive constructions (ART + POSS, as in la su casa ‘the his house’; GEN, as in la casa de él ‘the house of him’; and ART/BARE, as in la casa ‘…
The development of iterative verbal periphrases in Romance
This paper compares the diachronic development of tornar(e)+a+infinitive (henceforth abbreviated RETURN+INF) constructions in Spanish, Catalan, and Italian, a topic that especially for Catalan and Italian has not received much attention. I develop and explore the hypothesis that due to their lexical origin, iterative constructions develop from a restitutive to a repetitive function. A diachronic analysis of a corpus of RETURN+INF tokens from the …
The road to auxiliariness revisited
Auxiliary verbs are known to grammaticalize from lexical verbs, but how do lexical verbs acquire verbal complements to begin with? This article provides an account of the semantic and pragmatic basis of grammaticalization of the Spanish anterior (‘perfect’) [ acabar + de + infinitive] from a lexical source construction meaning finish . Based on a description of finish in terms of its qualia structure, we argue that verbs meaning finish are lexica…
When “Questions“ are not Questions. Inferences and Conventionalization in Spanish But-Prefaced Partial Interrogatives
The present paper analyzes the discourse-pragmatic function of introducing Spanish qué ‘what’- interrogatives with the concessive connective pero ‘but’. In some contexts, a pero-preface contributes to the interpretation of the interrogative as the realization of an interactional challenge rather than a request for information (e.g. an information question). We explore the inferential processes by which the peropreface leads to an interpretation o…
Inferences in Interaction and Language Change
Utterances usually convey more meaning than is expressed. This 'surplus' of meaning can be explained by the process of inferencing. A typical definition is given, for example, by Huang, who defines inference as the "process of accepting a statement or proposition (called the conclusion) on the basis of the (possibly provisional) acceptance of one or more other statements or propositions (called the premises)" (Huang 2011: 397). This definition re…
Refunctionalization and Usage Frequency
This paper explores the relationship between refunctionalization and usage frequency. In particular, it argues that (a) refunctionalization is more likely for low-frequency construction than high-frequency constructions, and that (b) high-frequency patterns are more likely candidates as models for refunctionalization processes than low-frequency patterns. It proposes that folk etymology processes be characterized as a type of refunctionalization …
De la consecución a la contraexpectación
Este artículo describe el desarrollo histórico de las construcciones lograr/conseguir + inf (p. ej., Pedro ha logrado ganar el premio ). Basándonos en el análisis de casi 3000 ocurrencias fechadas entre 1700 y 2005, mostramos que lograr / conseguir + inf han experimentado un proceso de construccionalización, por el cual, desde significados de consecución o logro, adquirieron lecturas modales de capacidad (‘ser capaz de hacer X’) y contraexpectaci…
Actual and apparent change in Brazilian Portuguese wh -interrogatives
Previous studies on the diachrony of wh -interrogation in Brazilian Portuguese have observed a replacement process of ex-situ- wh interrogatives by cleft- wh and in-situ- wh interrogatives in the twentieth century. The present study analyzes almost 19,000 wh -interrogatives from a corpus of theater plays dated between 1800 and 2016, demonstrating that not all of these frequency changes constitute actual change. The increase in the usage frequency…
Echoic and non-echoic confirming affirmative responses in spoken Brazilian Portuguese
On cause and correlation in language change
Studies of language change frequently wrestle with the problem of cause and correlation. It is comparatively simple to observe a correlation between historical trends. However, it is much more difficult to demonstrate that the changes in the frequency of a construction A were indeed the cause of the changes in the frequency of a construction B. We present a statistical method that can help to assess whether two historical changes are not only cor…
Two Types of Constructionalization Processes in Spanish and Portuguese Clefted wh -interrogatives
The present paper analyzes and compares the use of clefted wh -interrogatives in spoken Madrid Spanish, Puerto Rican Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. In a first step, a typology of the discourse functions of clefted wh -interrogatives is established. This typology is partially governed by the strength of the presupposition of the proposition of the wh -interrogative. The results suggest the existence of two distinct constructionalization process…
Asyndetic complementation and referential integration in Spanish
This paper examines a distinctive syntactic feature of (pre)classical Spanish: asyndetic complementation (without complementizer que ‘that’). While many authors regard this construction as a stylistic variant which eventually declined (i.a., Girón 2005 ), so far no exhaustive morphosyntactic study of the phenomenon has been presented, as previous works either have focused on only one predicate ( Blas Arroyo & Porcar Miralles 2016 , 2018 ) or do n…
Reforming the Spanish Future Subjunctive
How sentence type influences the interpretation of Spanish future constructions
It is well known that Spanish futurizing morphology is frequently used not to express futurity, but instead to formulate a hypothesis, i.e. express epistemic modality. Although this is possible with both synthetic or periphrastic future marking, the synthetic future tense is more likely to express an epistemic reading than the periphrastic future. This paper explores the relationship between futurizing morphology and sentence type on the basis of…
Modeling the discourse pragmatics of interrogatives
Preview this article: Modeling the discourse pragmatics of interrogatives, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/fol.00041.int-1.gif
Data-driven identification of situated meanings in corpus data using Latent Class Analysis
Identifying the meanings of grammatical elements in context is a major challenge for corpus-linguistic studies of grammatical variation. This study proposes a novel solution to this problem. I describe the situated meanings of grammatical elements as latent constructs, i.e., social concepts that cannot be observed directly but need to be inferred from the way that speakers behave. I use Latent Class Analysis (LCA) to create a data-driven typology…
Dialogical and monological functions of the discourse marker bueno in spoken and written Spanish
The Spanish discourse marker bueno has multiple functions ranging from the expression of (dis)agreement to topic management. The present paper sets out to explore what happens when bueno starts to be used in written monological contexts. We examine the use of bueno in spoken sociolinguistic interviews and written internet texts in Mexican and Peninsular Spanish. We propose a unified account of the different functions of bueno based on preference …
A computational approach to mapping replacement processes in language change
This paper explores the advantages of using Latent Class Analysis (LCA) as a computational approach to mapping replacement in language change. Historical linguistics assumes that when a construction replaces another construction, this process is gradual, affecting certain usage contexts before others. This model of replacement predicts that these usage contexts play a greater role for the decrease in usage frequency of the replaced construction t…
Cómo va a ser posible?
We analyze the use and distribution of Spanish synthetic and periphrastic future-inflected wh -interrogatives in a corpus of informal Spanish conversations, within Linell’s (2009) Dialogical Theory of Language. Our corpus analysis reveals that future-inflected interrogatives realize three types of discourse functions: information requests, interactional challenges, and requests for inference, each clearly distinguishable in terms of their distrib…
Accountability and type-fittedness as indicators of conditional relevance in interaction
In this paper, we analyze sequences of proposals for joint future action in German conversations, with the aim of capturing participants’ orientations towards conditional relevance (CR). We establish a data-driven operationalization of CR on the basis of different design-features of the proposals such as interrogativity, modal verbs ( wollen, sollen, können ), modal particles, and inbreath as well as by including contextual features, such as repe…
The test of time
In grammaticalization studies, reanalysis is understood as the assignment of new meaning to formally unchanged elements, supported by bridging contexts compatible with the old and the reanalyzed meaning. The source determination hypothesis (SDH) predicts that parallel grammaticalization trajectories occur crosslinguistically, as similar source meanings give rise to similar inferences. One such pattern is the development of recent past markers fro…
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