David Denison: papers, etc. available for downloading

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(Most are in PDF format apart from one online preprint and one in an online e-journal; where possible, links point to a Manchester eScholar record.)

• 2013c. Parts of speech: Solid citizens or slippery customers? Paper presented at British Academy/Philological Society, 10 May. [handout corrected 14/5/13 and presentation 12/5/13]
  
• 2013b,in press, with Marianne Hundt. Defining relatives. [pre-final] Journal of English Linguistics 41.2, 135-67.
• 2013a, with Kersti Börjars, Grzegorz Krajewski & Alan Scott. Expression of possession in English: The significance of the right edge. In Kersti Börjars, David Denison & Alan Scott (eds.), Morphosyntactic categories and the expression of possession (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today 199), 123-48. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• 2012d. Non-inflecting verbs in Modern English. Plenary paper presented at Autour du verbe / Around the verb: Colloque en l’honneur de Claude Delmas, Université de Paris 3.
• 2012c. On the history of English (and) word classes. [dense handout] Plenary paper presented at ICEHL17, University of Zurich.
• 2012b. Grammatical mark-up: Some more demarcation disputes. Based on plenary paper at conference on New Methods in Historical Corpora, University of Manchester, 30 April 2011.
• 2012a, with Marianne Hundt & Gerold Schneider. Relative complexity in scientific discourse. English Language and Linguistics 16.2, 209-40
• 2011c. The construction of SKT. [paper on sort of/kind of/type of, etc.; much fuller written version in prep.] Plenary paper presented at Second Vigo-Newcastle-Santiago-Leuven International Workshop on the Structure of the Noun Phrase in English (NP2), Newcastle upon Tyne.
• 2011b. ISLE highlights? Presidential address at ISLE2, Boston University.
• 2011a. Poss-s vs poss-of revisited. Paper presented at ISLE2, Boston University, workshop on Genitive variation in English.
• 2010d. The noun-adjective boundary: Recent change and category theory. Plenary paper presented at 19th International Postgraduate Linguistics Conference (PLC19), University of Manchester.
• 2010c, with Alan Scott & Kersti Börjars. The real distribution of the English "group genitive", Studies in Language 34(3), 532-64.
• 2010b, with Alison Cort. Better as a verb. In Kristin Davidse, Lieven Vandelanotte & Hubert Cuyckens (eds.), Subjectification, intersubjectification and grammaticalization (Topics in English Linguistics 66), 349-83. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter Mouton.
• 2010a. Category change in English with and without structural change. In Elizabeth Closs Traugott & Graeme Trousdale (eds.), Gradience, gradualness and grammaticalization (Typological Studies in Language 90), 105-28. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
• 2009b. A new class of verbs taking that-clause complements. Paper presented at ICLCE3, Symposium on Current Change in the English Verb Phrase, London.
• 2009a. Argument structure. [paper on reversal of substitute] In Günter Rohdenburg & Julia Schlüter (eds.), One language, two grammars? Differences between British and American English, 149-65. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• 2008b. Patterns and productivity. In Susan M. Fitzmaurice & Donka Minkova (eds.), Studies in the history of the English language IV: Empirical and analytical advances in the study of English language change (Topics in English Linguistics 61), 207-30. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
• 2008a, with Alan Scott & Kersti Börjars. What's wrong with possessive ’s? Paper presented at ISLE1, University of Freiburg.
• 2007d. Playing tag with category boundaries. In Anneli Meurman-Solin & Arja Nurmi (eds.), Annotating Variation and Change (Proceedings of ICAME 27 Annotation Workshop) (VARIENG e-Series 1.) Helsinki: Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English (VARIENG). http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/01/denison/
• 2007c. with Alan Scott & Kersti Börjars. Is the English possessive ’s truly a right edge phenomenon? Paper presented at 2nd International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (2ICLCE), Toulouse.
• 2007b, with Linda van Bergen. A corpus of late eighteenth-century prose. In Joan C. Beal, Karen P. Corrigan & Hermann L. Moisl (eds.), Creating and digitizing language corpora, 2 vols, vol. 2, Diachronic databases, 228-46. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave.
• 2007a. Syntactic surprises in some English letters: The underlying progress of the language. In Stephan Elspass, Nils Langer, Joachim Scharloth & Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), Germanic language histories 'from below' (1700-2000), 115-27. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter. [typo corrected 8 Apr 2012]
• 2006c. Category change in late Modern English? In Christoph Houswitschka, Gabriele Knappe & Anja Mueller (eds.), Anglistentag 2005 Bamberg: Proceedings, 447-56. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag.
• 2006b, with Alison Cort & Mariangela Spinillo. The changing status of the minor categories Determiner and Modal. Paper presented at 14ICEHL, Bergamo.
• 2006a. Category change and gradience in the determiner system. In Ans van Kemenade & Bettelou Los (eds.), The handbook of the history of English (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics), 279-304. Oxford: Blackwell.
• 2005b. The grammaticalisations of sort of, kind of and type of in English. Paper presented at New Reflections on Grammaticalization 3, University of Santiago de Compostela.
• 2005a, with Alison Cort. The category Modal: a moving target? Paper presented at The First International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, University of Edinburgh.
• 2004. Do grammars change when they leak? In Christian J. Kay, Simon Horobin & Jeremy Smith (eds.), New perspectives on English historical linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21-26 August 2002, vol. 1, Syntax and morphology (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 251), 15-29. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• 2003. Log(ist)ic and simplistic S-curves. In Raymond Hickey (ed.), Motives for language change, 54-70. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• 2002. History of the sort of construction family. Paper presented at ICCG2: Second International Conference on Construction Grammar, Helsinki.
• 2001. Gradience and linguistic change. In Laurel J. Brinton (ed.), Historical linguistics 1999: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9-13 August 1999 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 215), 119-44. Amsterdam and Philadelphia PA: John Benjamins.
• 2000c. So what's new? How we recognise linguistic change. Paper presented at ESSE5, Helsinki.
• 2000b, with Lynda Pratt. The language of the Southey-Coleridge circle. Language Sciences 22, 401-422.
• 2000a. Combining English auxiliaries. In Olga Fischer, Anette Rosenbach & Dieter Stein (eds.), Pathways of change: Grammaticalization in English (Studies in Language Companion Series 53), 111-47. Amsterdam and Philadelphia PA: John Benjamins.
• 1996. The case of the unmarked pronoun. In Derek Britton (ed.), English historical linguistics 1994: Papers from the 8th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (8.ICEHL, Edinburgh, 19-23 September 1994) (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 135), 287-99. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
• 1994. A corpus of late Modern English prose. In Merja Kytö, Matti Rissanen & Susan Wright (eds.), Corpora across the centuries: Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on English Diachronic Corpora, St Catharine's College Cambridge, 25-27 March 1993 (Language and Computers - Studies in Practical Linguistics 11), 7-16. Amsterdam and Atlanta GA: Rodopi.
  
• 1992b. The information present: Present tense for communication in the past. In Matti Rissanen, Ossi Ihalainen, Terttu Nevalainen & Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), History of Englishes: New methods and interpretations in historical linguistics (Topics in English Linguistics 10), 262-86. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• 1992a. Counterfactual may have. In Marinel Gerritsen & Dieter Stein (eds.), Internal and external factors in syntactic change (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 61), 229-56. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
• 1985. The origins of completive up in English. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 86, 37-61.
• 1981. Aspects of the history of English group-verbs: With particular attention to the syntax of the Ormulum. DPhil dissertation, University of Oxford. [Available in image pdf format from Manchester eScholar (9 files ranging from 671 KB to 6.6 MB), with thanks to Patricia Ronan for the scans.]

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