David Denison: papers available for download
(mostly from the University of Manchester Pure repository)
Comments welcome.
- completed, with Tino Oudesluijs. Reconstructing Mary Hamilton’s social networks. In Sophie Coulombeau, David Denison & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza (eds.) Mary Hamilton and her networks: Gender, sociability, manuscript, c.1740 – c.1850. [With foreword by Hannah Barker] [publication probably late 2025, meanwhile see 2024d, or brief summary on www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/networks/]
- 2024d. Social networks from letters and diaries: A data-driven approach. To be given as G. L. Brook Lecture/Linguistics and English Language seminar, University of Manchester, 5 December 2024. [Full Powerpoint available after delivery]
- 2024c. When does Present-day English begin? Paper presented at LModE-8, Salamanca, in panel session on Listening for Late Modern English Grammar: Identifying grammatical constructions characteristic of the 19th century.
- 2024b, with Nuria Yáñez-Bouza & Tino Oudesluijs. Editing The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1740 – c.1850). In Javier Calle-Martín & Jesús Romero-Barranco (eds.), Corpora and language change in Late Modern English (Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communication 308), 109-28. Lausanne, etc.: Peter Lang. [preprint]
- 2024a. We ain't done yet. Blogpost on project Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers.
- 2023b. Edition complete! Blogpost on project Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers.
- 2023a, with Tino Oudesluijs. A first look at Mary Hamilton’s social networks. Paper presented at BSECS 52, Oxford. [will be superseded by DD & TO 2024d and completed]
- 2022. Bumps on the migration road. Blogpost on project Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers.
- 2021b, with Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Tino Oudesluijs, Cassandra Ulph & Christine Wallis. Transcribing and Editing The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1750–c.1820). Paper presented at ICAME42 [online], Dortmund.
- 2021a, with Tino Oudesluijs [= 1st author] & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza. The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1750–c.1820): Digitising new data for the study of linguistic and literary networks. Paper presented at ISLE6 [online], Joensuu.
- 2020b. Explaining explanatory so. In Ewa Jonsson & Tove Larsson (eds.), Voices past and present – Studies of involved, speech-related and spoken texts: In honor of Merja Kytö (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 97), 207-25. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
[fullest explanation so far for rise of initial so in British English, with corpus evidence; preprint]
- 2020a. Editing in uncertain times. Blogpost on project Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers.
- 2019d. A just so story: Explanatory so as turn-introducer. Invited paper presented at New perspectives on language change and variation in the history of English, Université Paris 3.
- 2019c. Randolph Quirk and serial relationship. Paper presented at memorial event for Randolph Quirk, British Academy, London.
2019b. So, let’s talk about so. Paper presented at English Grammar Day, British Library, London. [superseded by 2019d]
- 2019a. Matrices in linguistics. Summary. LINGUIST 30.2146.
- 2018c, with Jiří Zámečník [= 1st author]. A quantitative exploration of SKT constructions. Paper presented at ICEHL20, Edinburgh.
- 2018b. That-clauses as complements of verbs or nouns. In Elena Seoane, Carlos Acuña-Fariña & Ignacio Palacios-Martínez (eds.), Subordination in English: Synchronic and diachronic perspectives (Topics in English Linguistics ), 61-84. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. [postprint; presented at LMEC6, Uppsala, 17 August 2017, building on early work presented at ICLCE3 2009, ISLE2 2011, and more briefly in Japan 2016]
- 2018a. Why would anyone take long? – Word classes and Construction Grammar in the history of long. In Kristel Van Goethem, Muriel Norde, Evie Coussé & Gudrun Vanderbauwhede (eds.), Category change from a constructional perspective (Constructional Approaches to Language 20), 119-48. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [postprint; early versions were presented at SHES, Manchester and ICCG8, Osnabrück, 2014]
- 2017b. Word classes in the history of English. In Mary Hayes & Allison Burkette (eds.), Approaches to teaching the history of the English language: Pedagogy in practice, 157-71. New York: Oxford University Press. [postprint]
- 2017a. Ambiguity and vagueness in historical change. In Marianne Hundt, Sandra Mollin & Simone E. Pfenninger (eds.), The changing English language: Psycholinguistic perspectives (Studies in English Language), 292-318. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [postprint; an early version was presented in a workshop on The Changing English Language: Psycholinguistic Perspectives at ISLE3, Zurich, 25 August 2014]
- 2016f. Word classes and syntax in English: Interesting problems. Invited Fellowship lecture given at Aichi Prefectural University, Nagoya.
- 2016e. Some problems in corpus-oriented English historical syntax. Invited Fellowship lecture given at monthly meeting of the English Research Association of Hiroshima, University of Hiroshima.
- 2016d. English letter-writing: Teaching history of English by research. Invited Fellowship lecture given at Kansai Gaidai University, Hirakata, Osaka. [an earlier version was presented at the University of Seville]
- 2016c. Aspects of English historical syntax. Invited JSPS Fellowship lecture given at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo.
- 2016b. Underspecified categories, supercategories, or no categories? Paper presented at ISLE4, Poznan.
- 2016a. Image to Text: TEI, XML ... or PITA? Going Digital with Humanities Research, University of Manchester, 27-28 January 2016.
- 2015b, with Nuria Yáñez-Bouza [= 1st author]. Which comes first in the double object construction? English Language and Linguistics 19.2, 247-68. [postprint] Two appendices omitted from published paper (see note 4).
- 2015a. Pushing the boundaries of word classes. Plenary paper presented at CBDA-4 (Colloque international Bisannuel sur la Diachronie de l'Anglais), Troyes.
- 2013d. Parts of speech: Solid citizens or slippery customers? Journal of the British Academy. [paper is based on public lecture at British Academy / Philological Society, 10 May 2013: official video]
- 2013c. Grammatical mark-up: Some more demarcation disputes. In Paul Bennett, Martin Durrell, Silke Scheible & Richard J. Whitt (eds.), New methods in historical corpora (Corpus Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language (CLIP) 3), 17-35. Tübingen: Gunter Narr. [preprint; paper is based on plenary lecture at conference in Manchester, 29-30 April 2011]
- 2013b, with Marianne Hundt. Defining relatives. [postprint; published version requires JEL subscription] Journal of English Linguistics 41.2, 135-67.
- 2013a, with Kersti Börjars [= 1st author], 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. Contribution on progressive passive to Lexicon Valley podcast. [from 6' 45"]
- 2012c. 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.
- 2012b. On the history of English (and) word classes. [dense handout] Plenary paper presented at ICEHL17, University of Zurich.
- 2012a, with Marianne Hundt [= 1st author] & 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 [= 1st author] & 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 [= 1st author]. 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 [= 1st author] & 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 [= 1st author]. 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 [= 1st author]. 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. [The corpus page is here.]
- 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. [In image pdf format (9 files ranging from 671 KB to 6.6 MB), with thanks to Patricia Ronan for the scans.]
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Page last updated 21 November 2024.