Sebastian Hoffmann

List of John Benjamins publications for which Sebastian Hoffmann plays a role.

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Edited by Sebastian Hoffmann, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand

[Benjamins Current Topics, 74] 2015. viii, 166 pp.

Subjects Corpus linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Edited by Sebastian Hoffmann, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand

Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 18:1 (2013) vii, 165 pp.

Subjects Computational & corpus linguistics

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Hoffmann, Sebastian 2018 I would like to request for your attention: On the diachrony of prepositional verbs in Singapore English Changing Structures: Studies in constructions and complementation, Kaunisto, Mark, Mikko Höglund and Paul Rickman (eds.), pp. 171–196 | Chapter

This paper employs a diachronic corpus of newspaper data to investigate the use of a range of semantically redundant verb-particle combinations (e.g. to request for) in Singapore English since the 1950s. The findings are interpreted as evidence for possible processes of innovation and structural… read more

Hoffmann, Sebastian, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand 2015 Introduction Current Issues in Phraseology, Hoffmann, Sebastian, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Article

Hoffmann, Sebastian, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand 2013 Introduction Current issues in phraseology, Hoffmann, Sebastian, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Article

Hundt, Marianne, Sebastian Hoffmann and Joybrato Mukherjee 2012 The hypothetical subjunctive in South Asian Englishes: Local developments in the use of a global construction English World-Wide 33:2, pp. 147–164 | Article

This paper studies the distribution and usage patterns in hypothetical if-clauses in a set of South Asian Englishes (SAEs), namely Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan English on the basis of web-derived newspaper data. Comparative evidence comes from newspaper texts in the British… read more

Hoffmann, Sebastian 2007 Review of Smitterberg (2005): The Progressive in Nineteenth-Century English. A Process of Integration Journal of Historical Pragmatics 8:1, pp. 146–152 | Review

Mukherjee, Joybrato and Sebastian Hoffmann 2006 Describing verb-complementational profiles of New Englishes: A pilot study of Indian English English World-Wide 27:2, pp. 147–173 | Article

The present paper investigates the emergence of local norms in Indian English at the level of verb complementation, an area which so far has not attracted much attention in research into New Englishes. In attempting to describe the verb-complementational profile of Indian English, we offer a pilot… read more

Hoffmann, Sebastian 2004 Are low-frequency complex prepositions grammaticalized? On the limits of corpus data — and the importance of intuition Corpus Approaches to Grammaticalization in English, Lindquist, Hans and Christian Mair (eds.), pp. 171–210 | Article

Using extensive corpus data, this paper investigates whether low-frequency complex prepositions (e.g. by dint of, in conformity with) can be interpreted as units of language structure even though they cannot have undergone the processes typical of more frequent grammaticalizing constructions. I… read more