All Stories

  1. Grammaticalization vs. Diachronic Construction Grammar

    Article • Studies in Language, December 2025, John Benjamins

    Bernd Heine, Professor Debra Ziegeler

  2. On the co-optation of according to as an evidential in English

    Article • Functions of Language, June 2024, John Benjamins

    Professor Debra Ziegeler

  3. Changes in the functions of already in Singapore English

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, October 2020, John Benjamins

    Professor Debra Ziegeler

  4. Lexical Retention in Contact Grammaticalisation: Already In Southeast Asian Englishes

    Article • Journal of Language Contact, January 2020, Brill

    Professor Debra Ziegeler

  5. On sentence-final “what” in Singlish: Are you the Queen of England, or what?

    Article • Journal of Language Contact, January 2018, Brill

    Professor Debra Ziegeler, Professor Seongha Rhee

  6. Negation and Contact

    Article • May 2017, John Benjamins

    Professor Debra Ziegeler

  7. Intersubjectivity and the diachronic development of counterfactualalmost

    Article • Journal of Historical Pragmatics, June 2016, John Benjamins

    Professor Debra Ziegeler

  8. Replica grammaticalisation as recapitulation

    Article • Diachronica, July 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Debra Ziegeler

  9. Count-mass coercion, and the perspective of time and variation

    Article • Constructions and Frames, July 2010, John Benjamins

    Professor Debra Ziegeler

  10. Semantic determinism and the grammaticalisation of have to in English

    Article • Journal of Historical Pragmatics, February 2010, John Benjamins

    Professor Debra Ziegeler

  11. Review of Frawley (2006): The Expression of Modality

    Article • Studies in Language, April 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Debra Ziegeler

  12. Interfaces with English Aspect

    Article • November 2006, John Benjamins

    Professor Debra Ziegeler

  13. Causativity reduction in Singaporean English

    Article • English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English, October 2006, John Benjamins

    Professor Debra Ziegeler

  14. Grammaticalisation through constructions

    Article • Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, December 2004, John Benjamins

    Professor Debra Ziegeler

  15. Review of Couper-Kuhlen & Kortmann (2000): Cause, Condition, Concession, Contrast. Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives

    Article • Studies in Language, June 2002, John Benjamins

    Professor Debra Ziegeler

  16. Past ability modality and the derivation of complementary inferences

    Article • Journal of Historical Pragmatics, August 2001, John Benjamins

    Professor Debra Ziegeler

  17. Hypothetical Modality

    Article • July 2000, John Benjamins

    Professor Debra Ziegeler

  18. Review of Pütz & Dirven (1996): The Construal of Space in Language and Thought

    Article • Studies in Language, January 1998, John Benjamins

    Professor Debra Ziegeler

  19. A Synchronic Perspective on the Grammaticalisation of will in Hypothetical Predicates

    Article • Studies in Language, January 1996, John Benjamins

    Professor Debra Ziegeler