Alexander Bergs
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Alexander Bergs's Degrees
- PhD Linguistics University of Tübingen
- Masters Linguistics University of Tübingen
- Bachelors Linguistics University of Tübingen
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alexander Thomas Bergs is a German linguist and professor of English linguistics at the University of Osnabrück. Career Alexander Bergs studied English, German, chemistry, education and philosophy at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and general linguistics, English language and Scots at Edinburgh University. This was followed by his doctorate in 2002 on the subject of “Social Networks and Historical Sociolinguistics: Studies in Morphosyntactic Variation in the Paston Letters ”, and four years later his habilitation in English linguistics with the title "The Expression of Futurity in Contemporary English: Form, Function, Development".
Alexander Bergs's Published Works
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- Constructions and language change (2008) (137)
- Social Networks and Historical Sociolinguistics: Studies in Morphosyntactic Variation in the Paston Letters (1421-1503) (2005) (126)
- The Uniformitarian Principle and the Risk of Anachronisms in Language and Social History (2012) (68)
- The grammaticalization of NP of NP patterns (2008) (65)
- Contexts and constructions (2009) (39)
- Letters: A new approach to text typology (2004) (36)
- Constructions and constructs:mapping a shift between predication and attribution (2008) (35)
- Multimodality and construction grammar (2017) (35)
- Expressions of futurity in contemporary English: a Construction Grammar perspective (2010) (29)
- Learn the Rules like a Pro, so you can Break them like an Artist (Picasso): Linguistic Aberrancy from a Constructional Perspective (2018) (21)
- Analyzing online communication from a social network point of view: questions, problems, perspectives (2006) (21)
- Constructional idioms as products of linguistic change: the aan het + INFINITIVE construction in dutch (2008) (17)
- Introduction: Constructions and Language Change (2008) (17)
- What, If Anything, Is Linguistic Creativity? (2019) (13)
- A Construction Grammar Approach to Genre (2018) (13)
- Social Networks in Pre-1500 Britain: Problems, Prospects, Examples (2000) (12)
- Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK) (2012) (12)
- Literacy and the new media: vita brevis, lingua brevis (2004) (12)
- Letter Writing and Language Change: Linguistic fingerprints of authors and scribes (2015) (8)
- Creativity within and outside the linguistic system (2020) (8)
- English historical linguistics : an international handbook (2012) (7)
- 16 Linguistic Levels: Styles, registers, genres, text types (2012) (7)
- Understanding Language Change (2016) (7)
- Because science! Notes on a variable conjunction (2018) (6)
- Where did this future construction come from? A case study of Swedish komma att V (2008) (6)
- Mood in English (2010) (6)
- The myth of the complete sentence – a response to Traugott (2017) (5)
- Shall and shan t in contemporary English – a case of functional condensation (2008) (5)
- Special issue on cognitive approaches to the history of English: introduction (2017) (4)
- Sounds, Words, Texts and Change: Selected Papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7-11 September 2000, vol. 2 (review) (2004) (4)
- The role of markedness in the actuation and actualization of linguistic change (2001) (4)
- Borrowed rhetorical constructions as starting points for grammaticalization (2008) (4)
- Negative verbal clause constructions in Puyuma: exploring constructional disharmony (2008) (3)
- Syntax as a repository of historical relics (2008) (3)
- The Role of the Individual in Language Change from the Point of View of-Social Network Analysis (2012) (3)
- The language of the Peterborough Chronicle (2007) (3)
- 51 Early Modern English: The language of Shakespeare (2012) (2)
- Investigating Love Letters Across Time: Semiotic, Sociolinguistic and Cognitive Problems and Perspectives (2014) (2)
- 62 Standardization: Standards in the history of English (2012) (2)
- WHAT IF ONE MAN'S LEXICON WERE ANOTHER MAN'S SYNTAX? A NEW APPROACH TO THE HISTORY OF RELATIVE WHO (2003) (2)
- Cognitive Approaches to the History of English : Special Issue of English Language and Linguistics (2017) (2)
- English Historical Syntax and Morphology: Selected Papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7-11 September 2000, vol. 1 (review) (2004) (2)
- The Verb Phrase in English: I was just reading this article – on the expression of recentness and the English past progressive (2013) (2)
- Ælc þara þe þas min word gehierþ and þa wyrcþ ... : Psycholinguistic perspectives on early Englishes (2015) (2)
- Chapter 10: Standardization (2017) (1)
- Chapter 11: Standardization (2017) (1)
- Learning formulaic creativity: Chunking in verbal art and speech – a response to Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas (2020) (1)
- 55 Late Modern English: Semantics and lexicon (2012) (1)
- Chapter 15: Australian/New Zealand English (2017) (1)
- 47 Early Modern English: Periphrastic DO (2012) (1)
- 70 English and the media: Internet (2012) (1)
- 103. New Perspectives, Theories and Methods: Construction Grammar (2012) (1)
- Chapter 12: Middle English Creolization (2017) (1)
- 64 Standardization: English language regard: attitudes, beliefs, and ideologies (2012) (1)
- Historical Outlines from Sound to Text (2017) (1)
- What Do You Think This Is, Bush Week? Construction Grammar and Language Change in Australia (2020) (1)
- 82. History of English Historical Linguistics: Overview (2012) (1)
- Chapter 12: Styles, Registers, Genres, Text Types (2017) (1)
- 56 Late Modern English: Pragmatics and discourse (2012) (1)
- Chapter 13: Standards in the History of English (2017) (1)
- 40 Early Modern English: Lexicon and semantics (2012) (1)
- Chapter 17: English in Africa – a diachronic typology (2017) (1)
- As if irony was in stock (2021) (1)
- On historical language contact in English and its types: state of the art and new directions (2020) (1)
- Chapter 2: Periodization in the History of the English Language (2017) (1)
- Chapter 8: Dialects (2017) (1)
- 26 Middle English: Phonology (2012) (1)
- Apparatus and method for detecting a delivery rate of a liquid material (2016) (0)
- Chapter 14: The Great Vowel Shift (2017) (0)
- Chapter 2: Early Modern English: Overview (2017) (0)
- 63 Standardization: Codifiers (2012) (0)
- Doric: The Dialect of North-East Scotland (review) (2004) (0)
- Chapter 2: Standard American English (2017) (0)
- Chapter 17: The language of Shakespeare (2017) (0)
- 3 Periods: Middle English (2012) (0)
- Chapter 12: Standardization (2017) (0)
- Chapter 10: Onomastics (2017) (0)
- 58 Late Modern English: Standardization (2012) (0)
- 25 Old English: Literary language (2012) (0)
- 65 Standardization: Bible translations (2012) (0)
- 45 Early Modern English: Sociolinguistics (2012) (0)
- 60 Standardization: Prescriptive tradition (2012) (0)
- Preface to Historical Linguistics of English (2012) (0)
- Chapter 13: Periphrastic DO (2017) (0)
- 41 Early Modern English: Pragmatics and discourse (2012) (0)
- Chapter 6: Semantics and Lexicon (2017) (0)
- Sarah D’Hertefelt. 2018. Insubordination in Germanic. A Typology of Complement and Conditional Constructions (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 318). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. 235 S. (2021) (0)
- (De)grammaticalisation as a source for new constructions: the case of subject doubling in Dutch (2008) (0)
- Varieties of English (2017) (0)
- Chapter 16: English in India (2017) (0)
- Chapter 9: Language Contact: Multilingualism (2017) (0)
- Chapter 15: Relativization (2017) (0)
- 7 Linguistic Levels: Phonology (2012) (0)
- 66 Standardization: Dictionaries and the standardization of English (2012) (0)
- 13 Linguistic Levels: Pragmatics and discourse (2012) (0)
- 50 Early Modern English: Literary language (2012) (0)
- Chapter 10: Language Contact: French (2017) (0)
- Chapter 5: Re-viewing the origins and history of African American Language (2017) (0)
- Chapter 13: Literary Language (2017) (0)
- 53 Late Modern English: Morphology (2012) (0)
- Chapter 6: Syntax (2017) (0)
- Chapter 6: Standard British English (2017) (0)
- Chapter 5 Relative clauses (2005) (0)
- Chapter 5: Syntax (2017) (0)
- Chapter 11: English Contact: Norse (2017) (0)
- 17 Old English: Phonology (2012) (0)
- Early Modern English (2017) (0)
- Chapter 7 Conclusion: a network perspective (2005) (0)
- Social Networks and Language Change in Middle English (1999) (0)
- Chapter 8: Idioms and Fixed Expressions (2017) (0)
- 15 Linguistic Levels: Orthography (2012) (0)
- Chapter 3: Old English: Overview (2017) (0)
- 6 Periods: Contemporary English (2012) (0)
- Chapter 5: Morphology (2017) (0)
- 39 Early Modern English: Syntax (2012) (0)
- 4 Periods: Early Modern English (2012) (0)
- The problem of universalism in (diachronic) cognitive linguistics (2021) (0)
- 35 Middle English: Literary language (2012) (0)
- Chapter 4: Phonology (2017) (0)
- Merja Kytö, Mats Rydén and Erik Smitterberg (eds.). Nineteenth-Century English: Stability and Change (2009) (0)
- 34 Middle English: Sociolinguistics (2012) (0)
- Ilse Wischer, Gabriele Diewald (Hgg.), New Reflections on Grammaticalization (2007) (0)
- Chapter 14: English in Wales (2017) (0)
- 57 Late Modern English: Dialects (2012) (0)
- Chapter 2 Historical sociolinguistics (2005) (0)
- Chapter 3: Regional varieties of American English (2017) (0)
- 9 Linguistic Levels: Morphology (2012) (0)
- Preface to the Handbook of English Historical Linguistics (2012) (0)
- Chapter 11: Celtic and Celtic Englishes (2017) (0)
- 24 Old English: Standardization (2012) (0)
- 69 English and the media: Radio (2012) (0)
- Second-language varieties : Second-language varieties of English (2012) (0)
- Colin Brown/Peter Hagoort (eds.): The Neurocognition of Language (2002) (0)
- Open Access Workshop (2007) (0)
- Chapter 7: Pragmatics and discourse (2017) (0)
- Chapter 3. Phonology (2017) (0)
- 33 Middle English: Standardization (2012) (0)
- 48 Early Modern English: The Great Vowel Shift (2012) (0)
- Changes to the semantics (2016) (0)
- Language change across a lifetime: A historical micro-perspective (2021) (0)
- Editorial (2019) (0)
- 37 Early Modern English: Phonology (2012) (0)
- Chapter 6 The light verb construction (2005) (0)
- 27 Middle English: Morphology (2012) (0)
- 'Ther been thinges thre, the whiche thynges troublen al this erthe' : The discourse-pragmatics of 'demonstrative which' (2005) (0)
- 49 Early Modern English: Relativization (2012) (0)
- Chapter 8: Received Pronunciation (2017) (0)
- Chapter 9: Dialects (2017) (0)
- Response to Traugott (2016) (0)
- Chapter 9: Language contact (2017) (0)
- 1 Periods: Pre-Old English (2012) (0)
- 42 Early Modern English: Dialects (2012) (0)
- 36 Middle English: The language of Chaucer (2012) (0)
- 2 Periods: Old English (2012) (0)
- Chapter 4: Prosody (2017) (0)
- Jóhanna Barðdal, Elena Smirnova, Lotte Sommerer u. Spike Gildea (Hgg.): Diachronic Construction Grammar (2016) (0)
- Chapter 20: Pidgins and creoles (2017) (0)
- Chapter 7: Semantics and Lexicon (2017) (0)
- 8 Linguistic Levels: Prosody (2012) (0)
- Linguistics Vanguard (2017) (0)
- 21 Old English: Pragmatics and discourse (2012) (0)
- 59 Late Modern English: Sociolinguistics (2012) (0)
- Chapter 2: Pre-Old English (2017) (0)
- Chapter 10: Cockney (2017) (0)
- Chapter 6: Lexicon and semantics (2017) (0)
- Chapter 16: Literary language (2017) (0)
- Chapter 9: Estuary English (2017) (0)
- 46 Early Modern English: Pronouns (2012) (0)
- Chapter 2: Middle English: Overview (2017) (0)
- Complements and Adjuncts (2020) (0)
- 43 Early Modern English: Language contact (2012) (0)
- 54 Late Modern English: Syntax (2012) (0)
- Chapter 11: Orthography (2017) (0)
- Chapter 4 Personal pronouns (2005) (0)
- Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Emma Moore, Linda van Bergen and Willem B. Hollmann (eds.), Categories, constructions, and change in English syntax (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xx + 412. ISBN 9781108419567. (2020) (0)
- Chapter 11: Sociolinguistics (2017) (0)
- Expecting the Unexpected? (2020) (0)
- so,Norms and conventions in the history of English offers thought-provoking approaches (2021) (0)
- When concepts clash ... (2008) (0)
- 28 Middle English: Syntax (2012) (0)
- 20 Old English: Semantics and lexicon (2012) (0)
- 32 Middle English: Language contact (2012) (0)
- Russi, Cinzia: Current Trends in Historical Sociolinguistics (2017) (0)
- 30 Middle English: Pragmatics and discourse (2012) (0)
- 14 Linguistic Levels: Onomastics (2012) (0)
- 12 Linguistic Levels: Idioms and fixed expressions (2012) (0)
- 61 Standardization: The complaint tradition (2012) (0)
- Chapter 12: Scots (2017) (0)
- 19 Old English: Syntax (2012) (0)
- Set Them Free (2018) (0)
- 44 Early Modern English: Standardization (2012) (0)
- 52 Late Modern English: Phonology (2012) (0)
- Chapter 10: Language Contact: Latin (2017) (0)
- Chapter 3 Social network analysis – present and past (2005) (0)
- ILTEC Technology—New Pathways Towards Safe and Effective Cooling (2020) (0)
- English historical syntax and morphology (Book) (2004) (0)
- 22 Old English: Dialects (2012) (0)
- 13 Writing, reading, language change – a sociohistorical perspective on scribes, readers, and networks in medieval Britain (2013) (0)
- 11 Linguistic Levels: Semantics and lexicon (2012) (0)
- 5 Periods: Late Modern English (2012) (0)
- Chapter 15: The Language of Chaucer (2017) (0)
- Chapter 4: Canadian English in real-time perspective (2017) (0)
- 68 English and the media: Television (2012) (0)
- 67 English and the media: Newspapers (2012) (0)
- 29 Middle English: Semantics and lexicon (2012) (0)
- 23 Old English: Language contact (2012) (0)
- Chapter 4: Morphology (2017) (0)
- Chapter 19: Supraregionalization (2017) (0)
- Chapter 18: Diffusion (2017) (0)
- Determinants of Grammatical Variation in English (review) (2005) (0)
- Chapter 13: Sociolinguistics (2017) (0)
- Chapter 12: Pronouns (2017) (0)
- Chapter 14: Literary Language (2017) (0)
- Chapter 7: Regional varieties of British English (2017) (0)
- Synchronic English Linguistics (2012) (0)
- 18 Old English: Morphology (2012) (0)
- 10 Linguistic Levels: Syntax (2012) (0)
- The Familiar Letter in Early Modern English: A Pragmatic Approach (review) (2004) (0)
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