Joanne Scheibman

List of John Benjamins publications for which Joanne Scheibman plays a role.

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Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax

Articles

This usage-based study of we examines formal and functional properties of English conversational utterances from the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English, focusing on effects of the referentiality of the pronoun. Analyses suggest that different indexical uses of we have distinct formal… read more
Scheibman, Joanne 2009 Routinized uses of the first person expression for me in conversational discourseFormulaic Language: Volume 2. Acquisition, loss, psychological reality, and functional explanations, Corrigan, Roberta, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. 615 ff. | Article
Scheibman, Joanne 2001 Local patterns of subjectivity in person and verb type in American English coversationFrequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure, Bybee, Joan L. and Paul J. Hopper (eds.), pp. 61 ff. | Article
Bybee, Joan L., Paromita Chakraborti, Dagmar Jung and Joanne Scheibman 1998 Prosody and Segmental Effect Some Paths of Evolution for Word StressStudies in Language 22:2, pp. 267–314 | Article
This study reports on a significant negative association found in a cross-linguistic sample between the degree of predictability of word stress from a word boundary and the extent to which stress has segmental effects. In other words, in a given language the less predictable stress is from the… read more