Bernd Heine

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According to Wikipedia, Bernd Heine is a German linguist and specialist in African studies. From 1978 to 2004 Heine held the chair for African Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany, now being a Professor Emeritus. His main focal points in research and teaching are African linguistics, sociolinguistics, grammaticalization theory and language contact and discourse grammar. The grammaticalisation theory, which deals with the changes in grammar, and to which he contributed 7 books and numerous articles, is his main focal point. Jointly with Tania Kuteva and Gunther Kaltenböck, Heine is the founder of the framework of discourse grammar.

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World Lexicon of Grammaticalization (2019) (1247)
Grammaticalization: A Conceptual Framework (1991) (1120)
Language Contact and Grammatical Change (2005) (590)
Cognitive Foundations of Grammar (1997) (538)
Grammaticalization And Reanalysis In African Languages (1984) (422)
On the role of context in grammaticalization (2002) (387)
African Languages: An Introduction (2000) (379)
The Genesis of Grammar: A Reconstruction (2007) (356)
Auxiliaries: Cognitive Forces and Grammaticalization (1993) (338)
Possession: Cognitive Sources, Forces, and Grammaticalization (1997) (333)
The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis (2009) (303)
The Oxford handbook of grammaticalization (2011) (243)
On contact-induced grammaticalization (2003) (226)
The Changing Languages of Europe (2006) (204)
On thetical grammar (2011) (194)
Opening the ‘black box’ of simulations: increased transparency and effective communication through the systematic design of experiments (2012) (192)
From cognition to grammar: Evidence from African languages (1991) (165)
On discourse markers: Grammaticalization, pragmaticalization, or something else? (2013) (155)
On the Metaphorical Base of Grammar (1986) (108)
Agent-Oriented vs. Epistemic Modality: Some Observations on German Modals (1995) (88)
The Kx'a family: a new Khoisan genealogy (2010) (77)
A typology of African languages : based on the order of meaningful elements (1976) (73)
Grammaticalization as an explanatory parameter (1994) (70)
Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume I. Theoretical and methodological issues (1991) (68)
Constraints on Contact-Induced Linguistic Change (2008) (66)
A linguistic geography of Africa (2007) (64)
Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume II. Types of grammatical markers (1991) (62)
Distributional typology: statistical inquiries into the dynamics of linguistic diversity (2015) (61)
Stylised Facts and the Contribution of Simulation to the Economic Analysis of Budgeting (2005) (60)
Language Death in Africa (1991) (58)
An Outline of Discourse Grammar (2013) (57)
On the grammaticalization of personal pronouns1 (2011) (56)
The Sam Languages: A history of Rendille, Boni and Somali (1978) (54)
Cooptation as a discourse strategy (2017) (48)
Contact-induced word order change without word order change (2008) (48)
On the linear order of ditransitive objects (2010) (48)
Polysemy involving reflexive and reciprocal markers in African languages (2000) (44)
Notes on the Yaaku language (Kenya) (1974) (43)
Areas of Grammaticalization and Geographical Typology (2011) (42)
LANGUAGE TYPOLOGY AND CONVERGENCE AREAS IN AFRICA (1975) (42)
On the Genesis of Aspect in African Languages: The Proximative (1994) (40)
Salient stages in contact-induced grammatical change: Evidence from synchronic vs. diachronic contact situations (2011) (39)
The Mountain People: some notes on the Ik of north-eastern Uganda (1985) (38)
On the genesis of personal pronouns: Some conceptual sources (2010) (36)
Areal influence on grammaticalization (1994) (36)
Africa as a Linguistic Area (2006) (34)
Comments on Christopher Ehret, "Bantu History: Re-Envisioning the Evidence of Language (2001) (31)
Chapter 2. On insubordination and cooptation (2016) (31)
Grammaticalization and Linguistic Analysis (2009) (30)
Accounting for a functional category: German drohen ‘to threaten’ (2008) (30)
Agent-Oriented vs. Epistemic Modality (1995) (29)
Focus on types of grammatical markers (1991) (29)
Sentence grammar vs. thetical grammar: Two competing domains? (2014) (28)
An areal view of Africa (2017) (27)
The non-Bantu languages of Kenya (1980) (26)
Status and use of African lingua francas (1970) (26)
Discourse Grammar, the dual process model, and brain lateralization: some correlations* (2014) (25)
Grammaticalization theory as a tool for reconstructing language evolution (2011) (24)
On reflexive forms in creoles (2005) (24)
The Body in Language: Observations from Grammaticalization (2014) (24)
From nominal to clausal morphosyntax: Complexity via expansion (2009) (23)
The Rise of Discourse Markers (2021) (22)
The Nubi Language of Kibera-an Arabic Creole: Grammatical Sketch and Vocabulary (1982) (21)
Grammaticalization of Cases (2008) (21)
On the rise of grammatical categories: Some examples from Maa (1986) (20)
Concepts of plant taxonomy among the samburu (kenya): some preliminary observations (1985) (19)
Constructional change vs. grammaticalization: From compounding to derivation (2016) (19)
Diachronic Observations on Completive Focus Marking in Some African Languages (1983) (18)
Grammaticalization in African languages (2011) (18)
Conceptual grammaticalization and prediction (1995) (18)
The dative in Ik and Kanuri (1990) (17)
On the Explanatory Value of Grammaticalization (2008) (17)
Chapter 4. Contact-induced replication: Some diagnostics (2013) (16)
Language Typology and Linguistic Reconstruction: The Niger-Congo Case (1980) (16)
On Some Correlations between Grammar and Brain Lateralization (2015) (16)
From cognition to grammar (1991) (16)
On polysemy copying and grammaticalization in language contact (2012) (16)
Contact and Grammaticalization (2020) (16)
Language and Dialect Atlas of Kenya, I: Geographical and Historical Introduction, Language and Society, Selected Bibliography (1983) (16)
On the possessive perfect in North Russian (2004) (16)
Are there two different ways of approaching grammaticalization? (2018) (16)
A concise dictionary of northwestern !Xun (2008) (16)
The areal dimension of grammaticalization (2011) (15)
1. Are there ditransitive verbs in !Xun? (2010) (15)
Notes on the Rendille language (Kenya) (1975) (14)
Proto-Baz: Some Aspects of Early Nilotic-Cushitic Contacts (1979) (13)
The grammaticalizational relation between two Modern Chinese wo xiang ‘I think’ constructions (2017) (13)
Swahili Plants: An Ethnobotanical Survey (1995) (12)
Vertical and Horizontal Communication in Africa (1977) (12)
Grammaticalization as a creative process (2008) (12)
Grammaticalization and language universals (1996) (11)
The Kuliak languages of Eastern Uganda (1976) (10)
Explaining language structure: On categorial misbehavior in Walman (Papua New Guinea) (2014) (10)
On the origin of Grammar (2013) (10)
6. Some linguistic characteristics of African-based pidgins (1979) (10)
Some observations on the dualistic nature of discourse processing (2019) (10)
Grammaticalization in Africa (2018) (10)
The genesis of grammar: on combining nouns (2008) (8)
Plants of the Borana(Ethiopia and Kenya) (1988) (8)
The Kx’a Family (2010) (8)
5. Some observations on the evolution of final particles (2015) (8)
On the German werden Future (1995) (8)
Les langues africaines (2004) (8)
The rise of grammatical categories (1986) (7)
Focus on theoretical and methodological issues (1991) (7)
On predicting contact-induced grammatical change: Evidence from Slavic languages (2011) (7)
What can linguistics tell us about early Khoekhoe history (2008) (7)
Some Patterns of Grammatical Change in Personal Pronouns (2017) (7)
The Waata Dialect of Oromo: Grammatical Sketch and Vocabulary@@@Boni Dialects (1984) (7)
The Mukogodo Maasai: An ethnobotanical survey (1994) (6)
Some Linguistic Observations on the Early History of Africa (1979) (6)
Extra-clausal constituents and language contact: The case of discourse markers (2016) (5)
Borrowing: Loanwords in the speech community and in the grammar by Shana Poplack (review) (2019) (5)
Plants of the Samburu(Kenya) (1988) (5)
Grammatical Hybrids: Between Serialization, Compounding and Derivation in !Xun (North Khoisan) (2005) (5)
Grammaticalization chains across languages: An example from Khoisan (2000) (5)
The dispersal of the Bantu peoples in the light of linguistic evidence (1984) (5)
Plants of the So(Uganda) (1988) (4)
Germanic Future Constructions: A Usage-Based Approach to Language Change (2009) (4)
Historical language contact in Africa (2001) (4)
Some generalizations on African-based pidgin languages (1978) (4)
Language, language policy and national unity in Africa: an overview (1992) (4)
Where do demonstratives come from? (2020) (3)
On non-finiteness and canonical imperatives (2016) (3)
The Akie language of Tanzania : a sketch of discourse grammar (2015) (3)
From clause to discourse marker: on the development of comment clauses (2021) (3)
Knowlegde and use of second language in Musoma region - a quantitative survey (1976) (3)
On Attributive Possession in Kabiye (1997) (3)
3. Anintegrative model ofgrammaticalization (2012) (3)
Dialect death: The case of Terik (1992) (3)
The structure of a functional category: German drohen (2007) (3)
Chapter 2. Dual process frameworks on reasoning and linguistic discourse (2020) (2)
Prosody and formation of Modern Chinese parenthetical CTMP ni xiang ‘you think’: A conjoining pathway account (2020) (2)
A Linguistic Geography of Africa: Notes (2007) (2)
The Rise of Grammatical Categories: Cognition and Language Change in Africa (1986) (2)
On the GermanwerdenFuture (1995) (2)
Traditional Fishing in the Rift Valley of Kenya: A Linguistic Survey (1982) (2)
African Linguistics: History (2006) (2)
The Kore of Lamu: a contribution to Maa dialectology (1979) (2)
16. Ways of explaining possession (2001) (2)
Neumann-Holzschuh & Schneider, eds.: Degrees of restructuring in Creole languages (2003) (2)
On the role of context in language evolution: Comment on "Towards a computational comparative neuroprimatology: Framing the language-ready brain" by M.A. Arbib. (2016) (2)
Location and motion in !Xun (Namibia) (2003) (2)
The Rise of Articles (2006) (1)
Review of Traugott (2022): Discourse structuring markers in English: A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics (2022) (1)
Native and Non-native Use of Existential There in CMC (2011) (1)
Rendille plants(Kenya) (1988) (1)
From nominal to clausal morphosyntax (2009) (1)
On the Role of Indirect Personal Reference in the Development of Personal Pronouns (2016) (1)
Plants of the Chamus(Kenia) (1988) (1)
On the grammaticalization of some processes of word formation in Africa (2019) (1)
The Labwor language of Northeastern Uganda : a grammatical sketch (2010) (1)
Reacting to language endangerment: The Akie of north-central Tanzania (2016) (1)
Chapter 1 : Linguistic Area and Grammaticalization Theory Is Europe a Linguistic Area ? (2011) (1)
Implicit and explicit languages in Africa (1980) (1)
Chapter 1. On the rise of discourse markers (2021) (1)
On genetic relationship and the case of the 'Nilo-Hamitic' languages (1971) (1)
English Discourse Markers (2021) (1)
Some reflections on genetic relationship in a group of West African Niger-Congo languages (2017) (1)
ON EXPLAINING GRAMMAR: THE GRAMMATICALIZATION OF HAVE-CONSTRUCTIONS (1998) (1)
Grammaticalization chains across languages (2000) (1)
ON METATYPY : WHAT IS POSSIBLE IN LANGUAGE CONTACT ? (2012) (1)
Extra-clausal constituents and language contact (2016) (1)
Dixon, R.M.W.: Are some languages better than others? (2017) (1)
The Study of Word Order in African Languages (1975) (1)
How optimal is the Optimization Model (2013) (1)
From Question to Subordination (2006) (1)
On the structure of early language (2021) (1)
Chapter 1 Back again to the future : How to account for directionality in grammatical change (2017) (1)
Language Contact and Grammatical Change: Grammaticalization (2005) (1)
Possession: On attributive possession (1997) (0)
Language Contact and Grammatical Change: References (2005) (0)
Divergency, Convergency, and the Case of Terik (1980) (0)
World Lexicon of Grammaticalization: References (2002) (0)
Pronouns and Pronominalizations in Kiswahili Grammar (2006) (0)
On the taxonomic status of folk botanic categories among the samburu (1987) (0)
Review: Oswin Köhler, The World of the Khwe Bushmen in Southern Africa: A Self-Portrait in Their Own Language, Berlin, Dietrich Reimer, 2018 (2019) (0)
Source–Target List (2019) (0)
(Studies in Pragmatics, 18.) Beyond Grammaticalization and Discourse Markers. New Issues in the Study of Language Change, Salvador Pons Bordería, Óscar Loureda Lamas (Eds.), Brill, Leiden, Boston (2018), p. 413, EUR €138.00, USD $166.00, Hardback, ISBN: 978-90-04-37540-6 (2019) (0)
Grammatical Concepts Used in This Work (2019) (0)
Book review (2019) (0)
On the status of wh-exclamatives in English (2020) (0)
Language Contact and Grammatical Change: On linguistic areas (2005) (0)
Fischer, Rosenbach & Stein, eds.: Pathways of change: Grammaticalization in English (2003) (0)
BOOK REVIEW (1991) (0)
Language Contact and Grammatical Change: Conclusions (2005) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
Explaining language structure (2014) (0)
A Typological and Areal Perspective of African Languages (2019) (0)
Europe as a Linguistic Area (2006) (0)
Language Contact and Grammatical Change: Typological change (2005) (0)
From separate clause to epistemic adverbial, the neglected source construction and initial-to-medial pathway: Chinese guoran ‘it really happens’ (2023) (0)
The Situation of Discourse: Evidence from Discourse Markers (2022) (0)
Discourse Markers in Language Contact (2021) (0)
Predicative possession (review) (2010) (0)
Language Contact and Grammatical Change: Limits of replication (2005) (0)
A world-wide survey of ‘have’-constructions (1997) (0)
A Linguistic Geography of Africa: References (2007) (0)
Concepts of Analysis (2021) (0)
13. On formulas of equivalence in grammaticalization: An example from Molise Slavic (2019) (0)
Language Contact and Grammatical Change: Notes (2005) (0)
Some Cultural Evidence on the Early Sam-Speaking People of Eastern Africa (1981) (0)
Xun as a type Β language (2004) (0)
Source–Target Lexicon (2019) (0)
Brill ' s Studies in Language , Cognition and Culture Series (2015) (0)
Auxiliaries in African Languages: The Lingala Case (1991) (0)
Folia Linguistica (2019) (0)
On replicating use patterns (2005) (0)
特別講演 The Cognitive Base of Grammar: A Grammaticalization Perspective (2004) (0)
5. The genesis of grammar: on combining nouns (2008) (0)
On the use of the nominal strategy for coding complex complements in some African languages (1988) (0)
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy: The evolution of morphology (Studies in the evolution of language, vol. 14) (2012) (0)
Areal Tendencies in Derivation (2014) (0)
Language Contact and Grammatical Change: Preface (2005) (0)
The diachrony of grammar by T. Givón (review) (2016) (0)
Book review (2009) (0)
Reacting to language endangerment (2016) (0)
The Development of Discourse Markers (2021) (0)
Linguistik, Ostafrika (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania) = Linguistics, East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania) = Linguistique, Afrique orientale (Kenya, Ouganda, Tanzanie) : 2° N-2° S, 32°-38° E : Gliederung der Sprachen und Dialekte (1981) (0)
Europe's Periphery (2006) (0)
Introduction: Typology and grammaticalization (2018) (0)
Reviews (2003) (0)
Possession. Cognitive sources, forces, and grammaticalization (P. Ramat) (1999) (0)
Target–Source List (2019) (0)
The Rise of Possessive Perfects (2006) (0)
Book Review (1978) (0)
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy: The evolution of morphology (Studies in the evolution of language, vol. 14) (2012) (0)
A Linguistic Geography of Africa: Introduction (2007) (0)
Lexical-Functional Grammar ∗ Ash Asudeh & (2009) (0)
From Comitative to Instrumental Forms (2006) (0)
The genesis of syntactic complexity: Diachrony, ontogeny, neuro-cognition, evolution (review) (2010) (0)
Chapter 4. Contact-induced replication (2013) (0)
Possession: From possession to aspect (1997) (0)
On context and concretization in the rise of German clause connectives (2001) (0)
ON CONTACT-INDUCED LINGUISTIC CHANGE 1 (2010) (0)
List of Languages (2002) (0)

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