The thesis presents a study of explicitation and implicitation in translation. Explicitating and
implicitating shifts were manually identified in a corpus of English and German business …

Drawing on earlier work by Ebert and Ebert (2014), we argue that co-speech gestures
contribute non-at-issue information by default (cf. Schlenker, 2018), flesh out their proposal …

This paper argues that a variety of constructions in a variety of languages suggest a deep
connection between kinds, manners, and degrees. We articulate a way of thinking about …

Similarity demonstratives are a particular class of demonstratives found across languages,
eg, German so, English such, Polish tak and Turkish böyle. These demonstratives occur as …

This chapter consists of two case studies: we will examine N of an N constructions (eg that
idiot of a doctor) and the small clause complement of the verb seem (eg He seems a fool.) …

Demonstratives are a typologically well-established, elementary and possibly universal
grammatical category. In this article we provide a concise and yet comprehensive analysis of …

This paper proposes an analysis of German passe-partout compounds like Straßending
(street thing) and Bananendinger (banana things) as morphological constructions. The study …

Recent typological and areal studies of demonstratives, such as Himmelmann (1997),
Diessel (1999, 2006), Dixon (2003), Güldemann (2008) and Krasnoukhova (2012), have …

We present a compositionally transparent, unified semantic analysis of two kinds of so… wie-
equative constructions in German, namely degree equatives and property equatives in the …

Peu d'attention a été porté jusqu'à présent aux déictiques de manière, tels lat. sic, fr. ainsi,
all. so, etc., que ce soit dans la description de langues particulières ou dans les études …