Prof. Holger Diessel

Diessel, Holger. 2023. The Constructicon. Taxonomies and Networks. Cambridge: CUP.

    Review in The Linguist List

Diessel, Holger. 2019. The Grammar Network. How Linguistic Structure is Shaped by Language Use. Cambridge: CUP.

    Review in English Language and Linguistics

    Review in Language

    Review in Review of Cognitive Linguistics

    Review in Revista Linguística

Diessel, Holger. 2004. The Acquisition of Complex Sentences. Cambridge: CUP.

Diessel, Holger. 1999. Demonstratives: Form, Function, and Grammaticalization. [Typological Studies in Language 42]. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Diessel, Holger, Kenny Coventry, Harmen B. Gudde, and Olga Caprici. 2021. (eds.), Demonstratives, Deictic Pointing and the Conceptualization of Space. Frontiers in Psychology.

Gast, Volker and Holger Diessel. 2012. (eds.), Clause Linkage in Cross-Linguistic Perspective: Data-Driven Approaches to Cross-Clausal Syntax. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Schmidtke-Bode, Karsten and Diessel, Holger. to appear. The typology of non-argument clauses. In Manfred Krifka and Mathias Schenner (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Embedding. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bunzeck, Bastian, and Diessel, Holger. to appear. The richness of the stimulus: Constructional variation and development in child-directed speech. First Language.

Monakhov, Sergei, and Diessel, Holger. 2024. Complex words as shortest paths in the network of lexical knowledge. Cognitive Science 48.

Coventry, Kenny R., Diessel, Holger, 2024. Spatial communication systems across languages reflect universal action constrains. Trends in Cognitive Science.

Monakhov, Sergei, and Diessel, Holger. 2024. A network model of English derivational morphology, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 46.

Coventry, Kenny R., Gudde, Harmen B., Diessel, Holger, Collier, Jacqueline, et al. 2023. Spatial communication systems across languages reflect universal action constrains, Nature Human Behavior, 7, 2099–2110.

Diessel, Holger. 2023. Demonstratives. In Eva van Lier (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Word Classes. 443-465. New York: Oxford University Press. PDF

Breunesse, Merlijn and Holger Diessel. 2023. Iconicity in spatial deixis: A cross-linguistic study of 180 demonstrative systems. In C. Gentens, L. Ghesquière, W. B. McGregor and A. Van Linden (eds.), Reconnecting Form and Meaning: In honour of Kristin Davidse, 185-208. Amstderdam: John Benjamins. PDF

Diessel, Holger and Sergei Monakhov. 2023. Acquisition of demonstratives in crosslinguistic perspective. Journal of Child Language 50(4): 922-953.

Diessel, Holger, Kenny Coventry, Harmen B. Gudde, and Olga Caprici. 2021. Editorial: Demonstratives, deictic pointing and the conceptualization of space. Frontiers in Psychology.

Diessel, Holger. 2020. A dynamic network approach to the study of syntax. Frontiers in Psychology.

Diessel, Holger and Kenny Coventry. 2020. Demonstratives in spatial language and social interaction. An interdisciplinary review. Frontiers in Psychology.

Diessel, Holger and Merlijn Breunesse. 2020. A typology of demonstrative clause linkers. In Åshild Næss, Anna Margetts and Yvonne Treis (ed.), Demonstratives in Discourse, 305-340. Leipzig: Language Science Press. PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2019. Preposed adverbial clauses: Functional adaptation and diachronic inheritance. In Schmidtke-Bode, Karsten et al. (eds.) Explanations in Linguistic Typology: Diachronic Sources, Functional Motivations and the Nature of the Evidence, 191-226. Leipzig: Language Science Press. PDF

Schmidtke-Bode, Karsten and Holger Diessel. 2017. Cross-linguistic patterns in the structure, function and position of (object) complement clauses. Linguistics 55(1): 1-38. PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2017. Usage-based linguistics. In Mark Aronoff (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press. PDF

Hilpert, Martin and Holger Diessel. 2017. Entrenchment in construction grammar. In Hans-Joerg Schmid (ed.), Entrenchment, Memory and Automaticity. The psychology of linguistic knolwedge and language learning. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Diessel, Holger and Martin Hilpert. 2016. Frequency effects in grammar. In Mark Aronoff (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press. PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2016. Frequency and lexical specificity. A critical review. In Heike Behrens and Stefan Pfaender (eds.), Experience Counts: Frequency effects in language, 209-237. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2015. Usage-based construction grammar. In Ewa Dabrowska and Dagmar Divjak (eds.), Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, 295-321. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2015. Frequency shapes syntactic structure. Journal of Child Language 42: 278-281. [commentary]

Diessel, Holger. 2014. Usage-based linguistics. In Mark Aronoff (eds.), Oxford Bibliographies in "Linguistics" . New York: Oxford University Press. Link

Diessel, Holger. 2014. Frequency effects in language development. In Patricia J. Brooks and Vera Kempe (eds.), Encyclopedia of Language Development, 222-224. Thousand Oaks: Sage. PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2014. Demonstratives, frames of reference, and semantic universals of space. Language and Linguistics Compass 8/3: 116-132. PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2013. Is there a deictic frame of reference? In Peter Auer, Martin Hilpert, Anja Stuckenbrock, and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (eds.), Space in Language and Linguistics: Geographical, interactional, and cognitive perspectives., 687-692. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. [commentary] PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2013. Where does language come from? Some reflections on the role of deictic gesture and demonstratives in the evolution of language. Language and Cognition 5: 239-249. [commentary] PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2013. Adverbial subordination. In Silvia Luraghi and Claudia Parodi (eds.), Bloomsbury Companion to Syntax, 341-354. London: Continuum. PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2013. Construction Grammar and First Language Acquisition. In Graeme Trousdale and Thomas Hoffmann (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar, 347-364. Oxford: Oxford University Press. PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2012. Deixis and demonstratives. In Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger, Paul Portner (eds.), An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning, Vol. 3, 2407-2431. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2012. Language Change and Language Acquisition. In Alexander Bergs and Laural Brinton (eds.), Historical Linguistics of English: An International Handbook, Vol. 2, 1599-1613. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. PDF

Gast, Volker and Holger Diessel. 2012. The typology of clause linkage: status quo, challenges, prospects. In Volker Gast and Holger Diessel (eds.), Clause Linkage in Cross-Linguistic Perspective: Data-Driven Approaches to Cross-Clausal Syntax, 1-36. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2012. Buehlers two-field theory of pointing and naming and the deictic origins of grammatical morphemes. In Tine Breban, Lieselotte Brems, Kristin Davidse, Tanja Mortelmans (eds.), New Perspectives on Grammaticalization: Theoretical Understanding and Empirical Description, 35-48. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2011. Review article of 'Language, usage and cognition' by Joan Bybee. Language 87: 830-844. PDF

Diessel, Holger and Katja Hetterle. 2011. Causal clauses: A cross-linguistic investigation of their structure, meaning, and use. In Peter Siemund (ed.), Linguistic Universals and Language Variation, 21-52. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2011. Grammaticalization and Language Acquisition. In Bernd Heine and Heiko Norrog (eds.), Handbook of Grammaticalization, 130-141. Oxford: Oxford University Press. PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2011. Social and cognitive processes influencing grammar evolution. Comment on Modelling the Cultural Evolution of Language by Luc Steels. Physics of Life Reviews 8: 381-2. [commentary]

Diessel, Holger. 2009. On the role of frequency and similarity in the acquisition of subject and non-subject relative clauses. In Talmy Givon and Masayoshi Shibatani (eds.), Syntactic Complexity, 251-276. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2009. Learning versus growth. In Patrick Griffiths, Andrew John Merrison, and Aileen Bloomer (eds.), Language in Use. A Reader. 313-322. London: Routledge. [Reprint of parts of chapter 2 of The Acquisition of Complex Sentences. CUP]

Diessel, Holger. 2009. Corpus linguistics and language acquisition. In Anke Luedeling and Merja Kytoe (eds.), Corpus Linguistics. An International Handbook, 1197-1212. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Diessel, Holger. 2008. Iconicity of sequence. A corpus-based analysis of the positioning of temporal adverbial clauses in English. Cognitive Linguistics 19: 457-482. PDF

Brandt, Silke, Holger Diessel, Michael Tomasello. 2008. The Acquisition of German Relative Clauses: A Case Study. Journal of Child Language 35: 325-348. PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2007. Frequency effects in language acquisition, language use, and diachronic change. New Ideas in Psychology. 25: 108-127. PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2007. A construction-based analysis of the acquisition of East Asian relative clauses. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 29: 311-320. [commentary] PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2007. Verberstkonstruktionen im Englischen und Deutschen. In Christian Lehmann, Peter Gallmann and Rosemarie Luehr (eds.), Sprachliche Motivation - zur Interdependenz von Inhalt und Ausdruck, 24-40. Tuebingen: Narr.

Diessel, Holger. 2006. Demonstratives, joint attention, and the emergence of grammar. Cognitive Linguistics 17: 463-489. PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2006. Demonstratives. In Keith Brown (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 430-435. Elsevier: Oxford. [2nd edition]

Diessel, Holger. 2006. Komplexe Konstruktionen im Erstspracherwerb. In Kerstin Fischer und Anatol Stefanowitsch (eds.), Konstruktionsgrammatik -- Von der Anwendung zur Theorie, 36-51. Tübingen: Stauffenberg.

Diessel, Holger and Michael Tomasello. 2005. A new look at the acquisition of relative clauses. Language 81: 1-25. PDF

Diessel, Holger and Michael Tomasello. 2005. Particle placement in early child language. A multifactorial analysis. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 1: 89-112. PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2005. Competing motivations for the ordering of main and adverbial clauses. Linguistics 43: 449-470. PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2005. Distance contrasts in demonstratives. In Martin Haspelmath, Matthew Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie (eds.), World Atlas of Language Structures, 170-173. Oxford: Oxford University Press. PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2005. Demonstrative pronouns - demonstrative determiners. In Martin Haspelmath, Matthew Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie (eds.), World Atlas of Language Structures, 174-177. Oxford: Oxford University Press. PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2003. The relationship between demonstratives and interrogatives. Studies in Language 27: 635-655. PDF

Diessel, Holger and Michael Tomasello. 2001. The acquisition of finite complement clauses in English: A corpus-based analysis. Cognitive Linguistics 12: 1-45. PDF

Diessel, Holger. 2001. The ordering distribution of main and adverbial clauses a typological study. Language 77: 345-365. PDF

Diessel, Holger and Michael Tomasello. 2000. The development of relative clauses in spontaneous child speech. Cognitive Linguistics 11: 131-151. PDF

Diessel, Holger. 1999. The morphosyntax of demonstratives in synchrony and diachrony. Linguistic Typology 3: 1-49. PDF

Diessel, Holger and Michael Tomasello. 1999. Why complement clauses do not include a that-complementizer in early child language. Berkeley Linguistics Society 25: 86-97.

Diessel, Holger. 1999. The use of demonstratives in Oneida narratives. Buffalo Papers in Linguistics 11: 16-38.

Diessel, Holger. 1997. Verb-first constructions in German. In Marjolijn Verspoor, Lee Kee Dong, and Eve Sweetser (eds.), Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning, 51-68. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. PDF

Diessel, Holger. 1997. The diachronic reanalysis of demonstratives in crosslinguistic perspective. Chicago Linguistic Society 33: 83-97.

Diessel, Holger. 1997. Predicative demonstratives. Berkeley Linguistics Society 23: 72-82.

Diessel, Holger. 1996. Processing factors of pre- and postposed adverbial clauses. Berkeley Linguistics Society 22: 71-82.

Diessel, Holger. 1996. German wenn: A study in cognitive semantics. Buffalo Papers in Linguistics 8: 39-56.

Diessel, Holger. 2008. Review of Ewa Dabrowska. 2004. Language, Mind, and Brain. Washington: Georgetown University. Language 84: 186-189.

Diessel, Holger. 2006. Review of Bernd Kortmann and Edgar Schneider. 2004. A Handbook of Varieties of English. 2 Vols. Berlin Mouton de Gruyter. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft. 25: 301-304

Diessel, Holger. 2006. Review of Frans Plank. (ed.) 2003. Noun Phrase Structure in the Languages of Europe. Studies in Language 30: 195-200.

Diessel, Holger. 2003. Review of Joan Bybee and Paul Hopper. (eds.) 2001. Frequency and the emergence of grammatical structure. Journal of Linguistics 39: 167-171.

Diessel, Holger. 2001. Review of Christopher Lyons. 1999. Definiteness. Linguistic Typology 5: 117-124.

Diessel, Holger. 2000. Review of Nikolaus Himmelmann. 1997. Deiktikon, Artikel, Nominalphrase. Zur Emergenz syntaktischer Struktur. Linguistic Typology 4: 273-281.