Elizabeth C. Traugott

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Elizabeth C. Traugott's Degrees

PhD Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
Masters Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Linguistics University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Elizabeth Closs Traugott is an American linguist and Professor Emerita of Linguistics and English, Stanford University. She is best known for her work on grammaticalization, subjectification, and constructionalization.

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On the Rise of Epistemic Meanings in English: An Example of Subjectification in Semantic Change (1989) (1119)
Regularity in Semantic Change (2002) (756)
Constructionalization and Constructional Changes (2014) (616)
The semantics-pragmatics of grammaticalization revisited (1991) (432)
(Inter)subjectivity and (inter)subjectification: A reassessment (2010) (400)
Lexicalization and Language Change: Frontmatter (2005) (317)
Subjectivity and subjectivisation: Subjectification in grammaticalisation (1995) (311)
THE ROLE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF DISCOURSE MARKERS IN A THEORY OF GRAMMATICALIZATION (1998) (266)
Constructions in Grammaticalization (2008) (261)
Pragmatic Strengthening and Grammaticalization (1988) (243)
Motives for Language Change: From subjectification to intersubjectification (2003) (224)
Linguistics for Students of Literature (1981) (213)
Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization (2010) (161)
Structural Scope Expansion and Grammaticalization (1998) (160)
A history of English syntax : a transformational approach to the history of English sentence structure (1972) (153)
Intersubjectification and clause periphery (2012) (126)
Lexicalization and Language Change: References (2005) (121)
Lexicalization and Language Change (2005) (118)
Invoking scalarity: The development of in fact (2000) (111)
The concepts of constructional mismatch and type-shifting from the perspective of grammaticalization (2007) (110)
The rhetoric of counter-expectation in semantic change: a study in subjectifícation (1999) (103)
SPATIAL EXPRESSIONS OF TENSE AND TEMPORAL SEQUENCING: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF SEMANTIC FELDS (1975) (94)
Gradience, gradualness and grammaticalization: How do they intersect? (2010) (89)
5. From propositional to textual and expressive meanings; some semantic-pragmatic aspects ofgrammaticalization (1982) (88)
A History of English Syntax (1971) (83)
The Oxford Handbook of the History of English (2012) (71)
Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume I. Theoretical and methodological issues (1991) (68)
Subjectification and the development of epistemic meaning: The case of promise and threaten (1997) (65)
Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume II. Types of grammatical markers (1991) (62)
From etymology to historical pragmatics (2004) (62)
From less to more situated in language: the unidirectionality of semantic change (1990) (61)
Meaning-change in the development of grammatical markers (1980) (61)
Scope and the development of epistemic modality: evidence from ought to (1997) (59)
On the rise of types of clause-final pragmatic markers in English (2016) (57)
From Polysemy to Internal Semantic Reconstruction (1986) (56)
Discussion article: Discourse markers, modal particles, and contrastive analysis, synchronic and diachronic (2007) (56)
The lady was al demonyak: historical aspects of Adverb all (2006) (51)
Grammaticalization and mechanisms of change (2011) (50)
The Semantic Development of Scalar Focus Modifiers (2008) (49)
The Semantic and Pragmatic Development of Substitutive Complex Prepositions in English (1995) (49)
Toward a coherent account of grammatical constructionalization (2015) (46)
“Conventional” and “dead” metaphors revisited (1985) (45)
‘Already’ and ‘yet’: a suppletive set of aspect-markers? (1969) (39)
Unless and but conditionals: a historical perspective (1997) (36)
Do semantic modal maps have a role in a constructionalization approach to modals (2016) (35)
Dialogic contexts as motivations for syntactic change (2011) (34)
On the Origins of "AND" and "BUT" Connectives in English (1986) (34)
Inter)subjectification and unidirectionality (2007) (32)
Toward a constructional framework for research on language change (2014) (31)
SOME QUESTIONS FOR THE DEFINITION OF "STYLE" IN SOCIO-HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS (1985) (30)
The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics: Pragmatics and language change (2012) (30)
The sociolinguistics of a short-lived innovation: Tracing the development of quotative all across spoken and internet newsgroup data (2010) (30)
Focus on types of grammatical markers (1991) (29)
Modeling Language Change with Constructional Networks (2018) (29)
4 On the Function of the Epistemic Adverbs Surely and No Doubt at the Left and Right Peripheries of the Clause (2014) (27)
Investigating “periphery” from a functionalist perspective (2015) (27)
The status of onset contexts in analysis of micro-changes (2012) (27)
Papers from the 4th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (1980) (26)
Chapter 8: A Historical Overview of Complex Predicate Types (1999) (26)
Literacy and language change: The special case of speech act verbs (1987) (25)
English speech act verbs: A historical perspective (1991) (25)
SEMANTIC CHANGE : AN OVERVIEW (1996) (24)
The Meanings of the Modals in Present-Day American English (1968) (24)
PRAGMATIC STRENGTHENING AND SEMANTIC CHANGE: THE CONVENTIONALIZING OF CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE (1988) (23)
Divergence and Apparent Convergence in the Development of Yet and Still (1982) (22)
Semantic Change: Bleaching, Strengthening, Narrowing, Extension (2006) (22)
Toward a grammar of syntactic change (1969) (20)
On the emergence of grammatical constructions in dialogual and dialogic contexts (2011) (20)
On the persistence of ambiguous linguistic contexts over time: Implications for corpus research on micro-changes (2012) (17)
On Conditionals: Frontmatter (1986) (17)
The development of “digressive” discourse-topic shift markers in English (2020) (16)
Rethinking the Role of Invited Inferencing in Change from the Perspective of Interactional Texts (2018) (16)
Grammaticalization across clauses (2003) (16)
On the historical relation between mental and speech act verbs in English and Japanese (1987) (16)
A critique of Levinson’s view of Q- and M-inferences in historical pragmatics (2004) (16)
Topics in English linguistics (1990) (15)
The constructionalization of the Chinese cleft construction (2015) (15)
Approaching modality from the perspective of Relevance Theory (2003) (15)
Symbol of Powerlessness and Degeneracy, or Symbol of Solidarity and Truth? (2019) (14)
Review and Future Prospects (2013) (14)
‘Insubordination’ in the light of the Uniformitarian Principle (2017) (12)
Constructional networks and the development of benefactive ditransitives in English (2020) (12)
Modality from a Historical Perspective (2011) (10)
Regularity in Semantic Change: Index of languages (2001) (9)
Old English left-dislocations: Their structure and information status (2007) (9)
Periphery: Diachronic and cross-linguistic approaches (2016) (8)
Morphemic Structure of Chaucer's English (1967) (8)
Experience, evidence, & sense: The hidden cultural legacy of English (review) (2012) (8)
GENERATIVE SEMANTICS AND THE CONCEPT OF LITERARY DISCOURSE (1973) (8)
Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Stanford, March 26–30 1979 (1980) (7)
Expressions of stance-to-text: discourse management markers as stance markers (2020) (7)
William Labov, Sociolinguistic patterns . (Conduct and Communication, 4.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972. (1975) (7)
Focus on theoretical and methodological issues (1991) (7)
Whither historical pragmatics? A cognitively-oriented perspective (2019) (7)
Regularity in Semantic Change: The framework (2001) (7)
From less to more situated in language (1990) (6)
Grammaticalization and word order change (2011) (6)
Descriptive Analysis of Discourse in Late West Saxon Texts (1969) (6)
The intertwining of differentiation and attraction as exemplified by the history of recipient transfer and benefactive alternations (2020) (6)
Zeroing in on multifunctionality and style (2002) (6)
The development of the Chinese copula shì construction (2019) (6)
A study of the development of the Chinese correlative comparative construction from the perspective of constructionalization (2020) (5)
On Conditionals: OVERVIEW (1986) (5)
Language, linguistics and literary analysis (2020) (5)
Regularity in Semantic Change: The development of modal verbs (2001) (5)
The conflict promises/threatens to erupt into war (1993) (4)
Low Salience as an Enabling Factor in Morphosyntactic Change (2017) (4)
The Sociostylistics of Minority Dialect in Literary Prose (1981) (4)
The Multilingual Origins of Standard English (2020) (4)
Arguments from language change (1993) (4)
Discourse Structuring Markers in English (2022) (4)
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN VIEWPOINT -WISE (2005) (4)
Lexicalization and Language Change: Case studies (2005) (3)
On Conditionals: Preface (1986) (3)
“Ah, pox o’ your Pad-lock”: Interjections in the Old Bailey Corpus 1720–1913 (2015) (3)
Principles in the History of American English: A Reply. (1972) (3)
Regularity in Semantic Change: The development of adverbials with discourse marker function (2001) (3)
Lexicalization and grammaticalization all over again (2007) (3)
From Opposition to Iteration: A Study in Semantic Change (1985) (3)
From a diachronic perspective (1999) (2)
A Usage-Based Approach to Sign Change (2013) (2)
Testing the hypothesis that priming is a motivation for change (2008) (2)
Semantics and Pragmtics of Locative Expressions (2004) (2)
Christian Lehmann, Thoughts on grammaticalization. LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 1. LINCOM EUROPA: Munich, 1995. Pp. xii+192. (1997) (2)
gradualness and grammaticalization : How do they intersect ? (2)
Coding the York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose to investigate the syntaxpragmatics interface (2008) (2)
Identifying micro-changes in a particular linguistic change-type: the case of subjectification (2016) (2)
METER IN AUDEN'S “STREAMS” (1989) (2)
Changing meanings, changing functions. Papers relating to grammaticaliza-tion in contact languages. Edited by Philip Baker and Anand Syea (1999) (2)
Constructional pattern-development in language change (2019) (2)
Chapter 27 Pragmatics and language change (2011) (1)
An Acknowledgment of Concern and a Concern for Lack of Acknowledgment (1992) (1)
Regularity in Semantic Change: Preface and Acknowledgments (2001) (1)
Regularity in Semantic Change: Primary references (2001) (1)
Linguistics: The Study of the Language Capacity and Its Functions (2011) (1)
Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science IV; Current Issues in Linguistic Theory Vol. 14) (1982) (1)
Is “Back to my Point” a Pragmatic Marker? An Inquiry into the Historical Development of some Metatextual Discourse Management Markers in English (2020) (1)
From polysemy to semantic change, edited by Martine Vanhove (2010) (1)
Gerritsen, Marinel; and Stein, Dieter (eds), Internal and external factors in syntactic change (1994) (1)
Grammaticalization: The hypothesis of unidirectionality (2003) (1)
Laurel J. Brinton, The Development of English Aspectual Systems: Aspectualizers and Post-verbal Particles (1991) (1)
Grammaticalization: Mechanisms: reanalysis and analogy (2003) (1)
A Constructional Perspective on the Rise of Metatextual Discourse Markers (2021) (1)
The semantic and pragmatic development of substitutive complex prepositions in English : Diachronic form-to-function mapping (1995) (1)
Non-syntactic Sources and Triggers of Syntactic Change (2017) (1)
Precursors of Work on Grammaticalization and Constructionalization in Directions for Historical Linguistics (2019) (1)
About Bruce Franklin: A Letter from Stanford (1974) (0)
Contexts for Constructionalization (2013) (0)
Do left and right periphery of the clause correlate with subjective and intersubjective pragmatics in English? Evidence from the development of no doubt and surely . (2011) (0)
Are Comparative Modals Converging or Diverging in English? Different Answers from the Perspectives of Grammaticalisation and Constructionalisation (2019) (0)
Regularity in Semantic Change: The development of social deictics (2001) (0)
Book Review:Language and the Study of Languages Today Margaret Schlauch (1973) (0)
'STYLE' AS CHAMELEON: REMARKS ON THE IMPLICATIONS OF TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR AND GENERATIVE SEMANTICS FOR THE CONCEPT OF STYLE (1978) (0)
Ellen Schauber and Ellen Spolsky, The bounds of interpretation: Linguistic theory and literary text . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986. Pp. x + 215. (1990) (0)
Labov, William. Principles of linguistic change, Volume 1: Internal factors (1997) (0)
The Pragmatics of Linguistic Elements at Right Periphery: An Overview. (2013) (0)
Regularity in Semantic Change: Conventions (2001) (0)
Grammaticalization: Grammaticalization in situations of extreme language contact (2003) (0)
The rise of a concessive “category reassessment” construction (2021) (0)
Grammaticalization: The history of grammaticalization (2003) (0)
EDITOR'S NOTE (2006) (0)
Cycles and continua: On unidirectionality and gradualness in language change (2011) (0)
Actualization: Linguistic Change in Progress (review) (2003) (0)
Coussé, E., Andersson, P., & Olofsson, J. (Eds.) 2018. Grammaticalization Meets Construction Grammar (2020) (0)
Introduction: Rethinking and extending approaches to the history of the English language (2012) (0)
Grammaticalization: Summary and suggestions for further work (2003) (0)
The handbook of English linguistics (review) (2009) (0)
The London Dialect of the Late Fourteenth Century. Rodolfo Jacobson. Pp. 193. Janua Linguarum, Series Practica, 97. The Hague: Mouton, 1970 (1974) (0)
Elly van Gelderen, Grammaticalization as economy. Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 71. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2004. Pp. 320. ISBN 90 272 2795 0 (Eur.), 1 58811 552 6 (US) (2006) (0)
Dick Leith. A social history of English . (Language and Society Series.) London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983. Pp. ix + 224. (1984) (0)
Courtroom Accomodation: Lawyers' Use of Foreigner Talk (2001) (0)
Heiko Narrog. Modality, subjectivity and semantic change: a cross-linguistic perspective. (2014) (0)
Clause-internal morphological changes (2003) (0)
Olga Fischer. Morphosyntactic change: Functional and formal perspectives (2008) (0)
Grammaticalization, dialogicity, and evidentiality: comments on papers on semantic-pragmatic changes in grammar and lexicon (Semantic-pragmatic changes in grammar and lexicon: emergence of concessivity, politeness effect, and speaker's subjective evaluation) (2008) (0)
Regularity in Semantic Change: The development of performative verbs and constructions (2001) (0)
Aneider Iza Erviti, Discourse constructions in English: Meaning, form, and hierarchies (Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics). Cham: Springer, 2021. Pp. xiv + 164. ISBN 9783030716790 (hb), 9783030716806 (e-book). (2023) (0)
Lexicalization and Language Change: Theoretical contexts for the study of lexicalization and grammaticalization (2005) (0)
Karl Heinz Wagner, Generative grammatical studies in the Old English language . (Wissenschaftliche Bibliothek, II) Heidelberg: Julius Groos Verlag, 1969. Pp. 298. (1972) (0)
Lexicalization and Language Change: Lexicalization: definitions and viewpoints (2005) (0)
Chapter 7: Pragmatics and discourse (2017) (0)
Models of language: I. Revzin, Translated from the Russian by N.F.C. Owen and A.S.C. Ross, and revised by the author. (Orig. title: Modeli yazyka). Methuen & Co., London 1966. xix, 188 pp. Price: 42 s. (1969) (0)
27. Why Black English retains so m any creole (1979) (0)
A LINGUISTIC JUSTIFICATION FOR PROTECTING “ GENERIC ” TRADEMARKS (2015) (0)
Chapter 7: Semantics and Lexicon (2017) (0)
Roger Lass, Old English: a historical linguistic companion . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xx + 300. (1995) (0)
Lexicalization and Language Change: Conclusion and research questions (2005) (0)
A RENAISSANCE FOR HISTORICAL SEMANTICS (2009) (0)
Geoffrey Leech, Marianne Hundt, Christian Mair and Nicholas Smith, Change in contemporary English: A grammatical study . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xxviii + 341. ISBN 978-0-521-86722-I. (2012) (0)
Confrontation and association (1985) (0)
Lexicalization and Language Change: Views on the relation of lexicalization to grammaticalization (2005) (0)
Richard Hogg and David Denison (eds.), A history of the English language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2006, ISBN 0-521-66227-3 Lynda Mugglestone (ed.), The Oxford history of English. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2006, ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924931-2, ISBN-10: 0-19-924931-8 (2007) (0)
A Syntax of King Alfred's Pastoral Care@@@A Descriptive Syntax of the Ormulum (1972) (0)
Regularity in Semantic Change: Conclusion (2001) (0)
Lexicalization and Language Change: Toward an integrated approach to lexicalization and grammaticalization (2005) (0)
Constructional emergence from the perspective of grammaticalization: the case of pseudo-clefts (2008) (0)
Regularity in Semantic Change: Prior and current work on semantic change (2001) (0)
Theoretical contexts for the study of lexicalization and grammaticalization 1 . 0 (0)
Pidginization, Creolization, and the "Naturalness" Hypothesis (1978) (0)

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