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Elizabeth Closs Traugott

Elizabeth Closs Traugott

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
56
Citations
20660
World Ranking
1843
National Ranking
881

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1983 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Elizabeth Closs Traugott is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research work spans several intersecting fields, including Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, and Psychology. Within these broad categories, their focus includes Language and Linguistics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Linguistics and Language, Literature and Literary Theory, and Philosophy.

The primary topics addressed in their work are Syntax, Semantics, and Linguistic Variation; Language, Discourse, and Communication Strategies; Language, Metaphor, and Cognition; Linguistic Variation and Morphology; Discourse Analysis in Language Studies; Linguistics and Discourse Analysis; and Natural Language Processing Techniques.

Recent publications by Elizabeth Closs Traugott include:

  • Expressions of stance-to-text: discourse management markers as stance markers, 2020, Language Sciences
  • The intertwining of differentiation and attraction as exemplified by the history of recipient transfer and benefactive alternations, 2020, Cognitive Linguistics
  • És "back to my point" un marcador pragmàtic? Una investigació sobre el desenvolupament històric d'alguns marcadors de gestió del discurs metatextual en anglès, 2020, Catalan Journal of Linguistics
  • A constructional perspective on the rise of metatextual discourse markers, 2021, Cadernos de Linguística

Their book publication includes Discourse Structuring Markers in English, released in 2022 by John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Elizabeth Closs Traugott are Richard B. Dasher, Eva Zehentner, Fangqiong Zhan, Fangqiong, and Xiao Han.

The venues where they have regularly published include:

  • Language Sciences
  • Cognitive Linguistics
  • Catalan Journal of Linguistics
  • Cadernos de Linguística
  • Cognitive Semantics

Elizabeth Closs Traugott has received distinctions such as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2000 and Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1983.

Best Publications

  • Constructionalization and Constructional Changes

    Elizabeth Closs Traugott;Graeme Trousdale

  • Lexicalization and Language Change

    Laurel J. Brinton;Elizabeth Closs Traugott

  • On the Rise of Epistemic Meanings in English: An Example of Subjectification in Semantic Change

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  • Regularity in Semantic Change

    Elizabeth Closs Traugott;Richard B. Dasher

  • Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume II. Types of grammatical markers

    Elizabeth Closs Traugott;Bernd Heine

  • The semantics-pragmatics of grammaticalization revisited

    Elizabeth Closs Traugott;Ekkehard König

  • (Inter)subjectivity and (inter)subjectification: A reassessment

    Elizabeth Closs Traugott

  • 语言学简史 : [英文版] = A Short History of Linguistics

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  • Subjectivity and subjectivisation: Subjectification in grammaticalisation

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  • Motives for Language Change: From subjectification to intersubjectification

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  • Constructions in Grammaticalization

    Elizabeth Closs Traugott

  • Structural Scope Expansion and Grammaticalization

    Whitney Tabor;Elizabeth Closs Traugott

  • THE ROLE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF DISCOURSE MARKERS IN A THEORY OF GRAMMATICALIZATION

    Elizabeth C. Traugott

  • Pragmatic Strengthening and Grammaticalization

    Elizabeth Closs Traugott

  • Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization

    Elizabeth Closs Traugott;Graeme Trousdale

  • Linguistics for Students of Literature

    Herbert Penzl;Elizabeth Closs Traugott;Mary Louise Pratt

  • Gradience, gradualness and grammaticalization: How do they intersect?

    Elizabeth Closs Traugott;Graeme Trousdale

  • A history of English syntax : a transformational approach to the history of English sentence structure

    Elizabeth Closs Traugott

  • Invoking scalarity: The development of in fact

    Scott A. Schwenter;Elizabeth Closs Traugott

  • 5. From propositional to textual and expressive meanings; some semantic-pragmatic aspects ofgrammaticalization

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  • Intersubjectification and clause periphery

    Elizabeth Closs Traugott

  • A History of English Syntax

    Susan Steele;Elizabeth Closs Traugott

  • The concepts of constructional mismatch and type-shifting from the perspective of grammaticalization

    Elizabeth Closs Traugott

  • Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume I. Theoretical and methodological issues

    Elizabeth Closs Traugott;Bernd Heine

  • Lexicalization and Language Change: References

    Laurel J. Brinton;Elizabeth Closs Traugott

  • Regularity in Semantic Change: Conclusion

    Elizabeth Closs Traugott;Richard B. Dasher

Frequent Co-Authors

Suzanne Romaine
Suzanne Romaine University of Oxford
Jenny Cheshire
Jenny Cheshire Queen Mary University of London
Carol Myers-Scotton
Carol Myers-Scotton Michigan State University
Kendall A. King
Kendall A. King University of Minnesota
Monica Heller
Monica Heller University of Toronto
Walt Wolfram
Walt Wolfram North Carolina State University
Paul Drew
Paul Drew University of York
Douglas W. Maynard
Douglas W. Maynard University of Wisconsin–Madison
Alessandro Duranti
Alessandro Duranti University of California, Los Angeles

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