Monographs
Schmidtke-Bode, Karsten (2009). A Typology of Purpose Clauses. [Typological Studies in Language 88] Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
This book presents the first comprehensive typology of purpose clause constructions in the world’s languages. Based on a stratified variety sample of 80 languages, it uncovers the unity and diversity of the morphosyntactic means by which purposive relations are coded, and discusses the status of purpose clauses in the syntactic and conceptual space of complex sentences. Explanations for significantly recurrent coding patterns are couched in a usage-based approach to language structure, which pays due attention to the cognitive and communicative pressures on usage events involving purpose clauses, to frequency distributions of grammatical choices in corpora, and to the ways in which usage preferences conventionalize in pathways of diachronic change. The book integrates diverse previous strands of research on purpose clauses with a thorough empirical analysis in its own right and thus reflects the current state of the art of crosslinguistic research into this distinctive type of adverbial clause.
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Journal articles
(peer-reviewed)
Schmidtke-Bode, Karsten (2009). Going-to-V and gonna-V in child language: A quantitative approach to constructional development. Cognitive Linguistics 20.3: 509-538.
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Contributions to edited
volumes
(peer-reviewed)
Schmidtke-Bode, Karsten (to appear). The performance basis of grammatical constraints on complex sentences: A preliminary survey. In: Clause Combining in Cross-Linguistic Perspective, eds. Volker Gast and Holger Diessel. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
REVISED DRAFT, JULY 2011
Schmidtke-Bode, Karsten (2010). The role of benefactives and related notions in the typology of purpose clauses. In: Benefactives and Malefactives. Case Studies and Typological Perspectives, eds. Fernando Zúñiga and Seppo Kittlä. [Typological Studies in Language 92] Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 121-146.
REVISED DRAFT, MARCH 2009
Manuscripts and reference guides
Schmidtke, Karsten (Ms.). Practical Guidelines for Writing a Paper in Linguistics. PDF
Schmidtke, Karsten (Ms.). Tense or Aspect? On the Grammatical Status and Functions of the Perfect Construction(s) in English. [Manuscript, FSU Jena, 2004.]
Schmidtke, Karsten (Ms.). Language Change, Competing Motivations and Grammaticalization. [Manuscript, FSU Jena, 2004.]
Schmidtke, Karsten (Ms.). Zur Gestaltung von Wörterverzeichnissen in DaF-Lehrwerken. [Manuscript, FSU Jena, 2003.]