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Papers by David Paul Gerards

New Challenges to the Theory of Grammaticalization. Evidence from the Rise of no obstante, no con... more New Challenges to the Theory of Grammaticalization. Evidence from the Rise of no obstante, no contrastante and no embargante 198 Mar Garachana 8 The Evolution of Temporal Adverbs into Consecutive Connectives and the Role of Discourse Traditions: The Case of Italian allora and Spanish entonces 231 Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga 9 Different Sensitivity to Variation and Change: Italian Pragmatic Marker dai vs. Discourse Marker allora 271 Piera Molinelli vi contents Insubordination, Abtoenung, and the Next Move in Interaction. Main-Clause-Initial puisque in French 304

Gianollo, Chiara, Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Sofiana I. Lindemann: Paths through meaning and form. Festschrift offered to Klaus von Heusinger on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Köln: Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln., 2022

Estudos de Linguística Histórica. Mudança e Estandardização, 2019

Ihsane, Tabea (ed.), Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article, Leiden/Boston: Brill (= Syntax and Semantics, 43), 105-139, 2021

Ihsane, Tabea (ed.), Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article, Leiden/Boston: Brill (= Syntax and Semantics, 43), 301-334, 2021

Anja Hennemann & Benjamin Meisnitzer (eds.), Linguistic Hybridity. Contact-induced and Cognitively Motivated Grammaticalization and Lexicalization Processes in Romance Languages. Heidelberg: Winter, 15–46., 2022

This paper investigates clitic object placement in informal written sources of Angolan Portuguese... more This paper investigates clitic object placement in informal written sources of Angolan Portuguese (IWAP) and compares it to that of clitics in European Portuguese (EP) and informal Brazilian Portuguese (IBP). The first main aim is to empirically assess the direction of cliticization in IWAP. The second main aim is to assess the availability of clitic climbing. Contrary to what is usually defended in the literature, the data examined – 500 clitics collected from freely accessible Facebook profiles – suggest that IWAP is generalizing proclisis in (almost) all syntactic contexts and losing clitic climbing. In both aspects, IWAP is shown to be similar to IBP rather than to EP. The paper is organized as follows: Section 2 provides an introduction to the socio-demographic and linguistic situation of Angola. Section 3 compares the general lines of clitic placement in EP and IBP and resumes the contradictory positions regarding these issues in Angolan Portuguese (AP). Section 4 presents the methodology and the empirical basis of the study. The results of the data analysis are presented in Section 5 and discussed in Section 6. Section 7 concludes.

Benjamin Meisnitzer & Yvonne Hendrichs (eds.), Língua e identidade no mundo lusófono – Sprache und Identität im lusophonen Raum. Stuttgart: ibidem., 2022

Tanto o português quanto o galego conhecem o uso do chamado infinitivo flexionado (port., IF) ou ... more Tanto o português quanto o galego conhecem o uso do chamado infinitivo flexionado (port., IF) ou conxugado (gal., IC), enquanto que o espanhol somente dispõe dum infinitivo não flexionado: (1) port. A disciplina é um requisito para ter/teres/que tenhas sucesso. (2) gal. A disciplina é un requisito para ter/teres/que teñas éxito. (3) esp. La disciplina es un requisito para tener/*teneres/que tengas éxito. Porém, as duas primeiras línguas-apesar de coincidirem, em grande medida, no nível do sistema-mostram diferenças de norma consideráveis. Globalmente, trata-se duma forma muito vital no caso do português, ao passo que o galego contemporâneo apresenta frequências muito variáveis em função do contexto extralinguístico. A língua coloquial caracteriza-se pela quase-ausência do IC, enquanto que este aparece, segundo alguns autores (p.ex. Kabatek 1997a), com frequências elevadas em contextos formais. A literatura cita como razão principal destas diferenças uma mudança de estatuto dia do IC. O objetivo desta contribuição é triplo. Após uma breve história do IC (cap. 2), primeiro, pretende comprovar empiricamente o uso elevado do IC em contextos formais. Segundo, visa analisar eventuais diferenças entre o uso dos galegos autonomistas e reintegracionistas. Terceiro, quer oferecer uma explicação mais profunda do porquê do uso formal do IC por ambas as correntes ideológicas, apoiando-se, sobretudo, no conceito da indexicalidade (Ochs 1992, Silverstein 2003) e na ideia de o uso do IC constituir um ato identitário.

Oscar Loureda Lamas & Salvador Pons Bordería (eds.), Beyond Grammaticalization and Discourse Markers: New Issues in the Study of Language Change. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2018

This paper aims at bringing together, based on examples from the Romance languages in general an... more This paper aims at bringing together, based on examples from the Romance languages
in general and from European and Brazilian Portuguese, in particular, two central linguistic paradigms with impact on historical as well as on synchronic views, namely
grammaticalization and discourse traditions (DTs, see Koch 1997) along the continuum
between communicative distance and immediacy (Koch/Oesterreicher 1985).

Éva Buchi & Wolfgang Schweickard (eds.), Dictionnaire étymologique Roman (DÉRom); http://www.atilf.fr/DERom/, 2018

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Daniel Reimann & Christoph Bürgel (eds.), Sprachliche Mittel im Unterricht der romanischen Sprachen: Aussprache, Wortschatz und Morphosyntax in Zeiten der Kompetenzorientierung [= Romanistische Fremdsprachenforschung und Unterrichtsentwicklung, 7], Tübingen: Narr, 2017

Das Problemfeld der Modalpartikeln (MP) ist ein hochaktuelles Thema, das in der neueren und neue... more Das Problemfeld der Modalpartikeln (MP) ist ein hochaktuelles Thema, das in
der neueren und neuesten Forschung, oft auch im Zusammenhang mit Diskursmarkern,
rege diskutiert wird. Die Frage, ob es MP auch in den romanischen
Sprachen gibt, ist dabei verschiedentlich beantwortet worden. Es erscheint eher
unwahrscheinlich, dass diesbezüglich kurz- bis mittelfristig ein abschließender
Konsens erreicht werden wird. Dies erklärt sich vermutlich vor allem daraus,
dass die romanischen Sprachen – anders als das Deutsche (cf. Abraham 2011,
127) – keine Modalpartikelparadigmata aufweisen und eine entsprechende Kategorie
deshalb weder in normativen noch in deskriptiven Grammatiken aufgeführt
wird. Hinsichtlich jener Debatte wurde von uns für das Spanische an
anderer Stelle (Meisnitzer / Gerards 2016) die Position vertreten, dass es durchaus
Elemente gibt, für die eine Kategorisierung als MP aus funktionaler Perspektive
gerechtfertigt erscheint. Gleichzeitig endete unsere Arbeit jedoch mit
der Beobachtung, dass diese Elemente in Lehrwerken für fremdsprachliche SuS
keinerlei Beachtung finden.

Daniel Reimann, Ferran Robles i Sabater & Raúl Sánchez Prieto (eds.): Angewandte Linguistik Iberoromanisch – Deutsch. Studien zu Grammatik, Lexikographie, interkultureller Pragmatik und Textlinguistik [= Romanistische Fremdsprachenforschung und Unterrichtsentwicklung, 5], Tübingen: Narr, 2016

Book Reviews by David Paul Gerards

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Revue de Linguistique Romane, 2018

Edited volumes by David Paul Gerards

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Kabatek, Johannes: Lingüística coseriana, lingüística histórica, tradiciones discursivas, Frankfurt / Madrid: Vervuert / Iberoamericana., 2018

Edited volume of works on discourse traditions by Johannes Kabatek; edited together with Cristina... more Edited volume of works on discourse traditions by Johannes Kabatek; edited together with Cristina Bleorțu; link: https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/553913

Drafts by David Paul Gerards

Pons Bordería, Salvador / Loureda Lamas, Óscar (eds.): Beyond Grammaticalization and Discourse Markers. New Studies in Language Change, Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2018

This paper aims at bringing together, based on examples from the Romance languages in general and... more This paper aims at bringing together, based on examples from the Romance languages in general and from European and Brazilian Portuguese, in particular, two central linguistic paradigms with impact on historical as well as on synchronic views, namely grammaticalization and discourse traditions (DTs, see Koch 1997) along the continuum between communicative distance and immediacy (Koch/Oesterreicher 1985).

Conferences and Workshops by David Paul Gerards