Construction Grammar Network - page of ElizabethCouperKuhlen

• Name: Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
• Email: _email0
• Group: CxGGroup
• Affiliation: University of Potsdam
• Address: Institut für Anglistik & Amerikanistik
• Field of Interest: Constructions in Interaction

• Projects:
  • constructions in conversation (causal, conditional, concessive; clefting, extraposition)
  • development of conversational constructions
  • intonation and conversational constructions

• Relevant Publications:
  • Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth and Sandra A. Thompson (2003). A linguistic practice for self-repair of overstatement: 'Concessive repair' . To appear in: Auli Hakulinen and Margret Selting (eds.), Syntax and Lexis in Conversation. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
  • Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (2002). On the development of final though: A case of grammaticalization? In: Gabriele Diewald and Ilse Wischer (eds.), New Perspectives on Grammaticalization. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 345-361.
  • Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth and Sandra A. Thompson (2000). Concessive patterns in conversation. In: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen & Bernd Kortmann (eds.), Cause, Condition, Concession, and Contrast: Cognitive and discourse perspectives. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 381-410.
  • Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth and Sandra A. Thompson (1999). On the concessive relation in conversational English. In: Fritz-Wilhelm Neumann & Sabine Schülting (eds.), Anglistentag Erfurt 1998. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 29-39.
  • Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth (1996). Intonation and clause combining in discourse: The case of because. Pragmatics 6/3: 389-426.