María José López-Couso

List of John Benjamins publications for which María José López-Couso plays a role.

Titles

Subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

Rethinking Grammaticalization: New perspectives

Edited by María José López-Couso and Elena Seoane

[Typological Studies in Language, 76] 2008. x, 355 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization

Edited by Elena Seoane and María José López-Couso

[Typological Studies in Language, 77] 2008. x, 367 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000: Volume 1. English Historical Syntax and Morphology; Volume 2. Sounds, Words, Texts and Change. 2 Volumes (set)

Edited by Teresa Fanego, María José López-Couso, Javier Pérez-Guerra, Belén Méndez-Naya and Elena Seoane

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 223-224] 2002. x, 306 pp. & x, 310 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Syntax
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Syntax

Articles

López-Couso, María José and Belén Méndez-Naya 2016 From clause to adverb: On the history of maybeOutside the Clause: Form and function of extra-clausal constituents, Kaltenböck, Gunther, Evelien Keizer and Arne Lohmann (eds.), pp. 157–176 | Article
This chapter is concerned with the origin and development of the English epistemic adverb maybe. Using various historical corpora, including the Helsinki Corpus and ARCHER as a baseline, we analyse a range of structures featuring the sequence (it) may be, paying special attention to those which may… read more
López-Couso, María José and Belén Méndez-Naya 2015 Epistemic/evidential markers of the type verb + complementizer: Some parallels from English and RomanceNew Directions in Grammaticalization Research, Smith, Andrew D.M., Graeme Trousdale and Richard Waltereit (eds.), pp. 93–120 | Article
English and Romance possess a particularly interesting way of expressing evidentiality and epistemicity, namely markers involving a verb of saying, knowing, or seeming followed by a complementizer (Verb+C), as Spanish dizque, Galician seica, and English looks like. In this chapter we consider the… read more
Propositional attitude predicates, such as English think, guess and seem, occur parenthetically in many languages. In this article we pay attention to a group of propositional attitude predicates which can be labelled epistemic/evidential, namely appear, look, seem and sound, and which, in… read more
López-Couso, María José and Belén Méndez-Naya 2014 On the origin of clausal parenthetical constructions: Epistemic/evidential parentheticals with seem 
and impersonal thinkDiachronic Corpus Pragmatics, Taavitsainen, Irma, Andreas H. Jucker and Jukka Tuominen (eds.), pp. 189–212 | Article
This article contributes to the discussion on the origin of pragmatic markers by exploring the development of parenthetical structures with the two default verbs of seeming in the history of English: seem and impersonal think ‘seem, appear’. Drawing mainly on data from the Helsinki Corpus, we… read more
López-Couso, María José and Elena Seoane 2008 Introduction: New perspectives on grammaticalizationRethinking Grammaticalization: New perspectives, López-Couso, María José and Elena Seoane (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Article
Seoane, Elena and María José López-Couso 2008 Introduction: Further reflections on grammaticalizationTheoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization, Seoane, Elena and María José López-Couso (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
López-Couso, María José 2007 Adverbial connectives within and beyond adverbial subordination: The history of lestConnectives in the History of English, Lenker, Ursula and Anneli Meurman-Solin (eds.), pp. 11–29 | Article