Books
The Acquisition of Complex Sentences. [Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 105]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (on-line review) Cambridge University Press
Holger Diessel. 1999.
Demonstratives: Form, Function, and Grammaticalization. [Typological Studies in Language 42]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
John Benjamins
Articles
Causal clauses: A cross-linguistic investigation of their structure, meaning, and use. In Peter Siemund (ed.), Linguistic Universals and Language Variation. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. PDF
Diessel, Holger. Forthcoming.
Bühler's 'two-field theory' and the deictic origins of grammatical morphemes. In Tine Breban, Lieselotte Brems, Kristin Davidse, Tanja
ortelmans (eds.), New Perspectives on Grammaticalization: Theoretical Understanding and Empirical Description. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Diessel, Holger. 2009.
On the role of frequency and similarity in the acquisition of subject and non-subject relative clauses. In Talmy Givón and Masayoshi Shibatani (eds.), Syntactic Complexity, 251-276. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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Holger Diessel. 2008.
Iconicity of sequence. A corpus-based analysis of the positioning of temporal adverbial clauses in English. Cognitive Linguistics 19: 457–482.
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Silke Brandt, Holger Diessel, Michael Tomsello. 2008.
The Acquisition of German Relative Clauses: A Case Study. Journal of Child Language 35: 325-348.
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Holger Diessel. 2007.
Frequency effects in language acquisition, language use, and diachronic change. New Ideas in Psychology. 25: 108-127.
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Holger Diessel. 2006.
Demonstratives, joint attention, and the emergence of grammar. Cognitive Linguistics 17: 463-489.
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Holger Diessel and Michael Tomasello. 2005.
A new look at the acquisition of relative clauses. Language 81: 1-25.
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Holger Diessel and Michael Tomasello. 2005.
Particle placement in early child language. A multifactorial analysis. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 1: 89-112.
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Holger Diessel. 2005.
Competing motivations for the ordering of main and adverbial clauses. Linguistics 43: 449-470.
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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.
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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.
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Holger Diessel. 2003.
The relationship between demonstratives and interrogatives. Studies in Language 27: 635-655.
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Holger Diessel and Michael Tomasello. 2001.
The acquisition of finite complement clauses in English: A corpus-based analysis. Cognitive Linguistics 12: 1-45.
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Holger Diessel. 2001.
The ordering distribution of main and adverbial clauses a typological study. Language 77: 345-365.
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Holger Diessel and Michael Tomasello. 2000.
The development of relative clauses in spontaneous child speech. Cognitive Linguistics 11: 131-151.
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Holger Diessel. 1999.
The morphosyntax of demonstratives in synchrony and diachrony. Linguistic Typology 3: 1-49.
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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.
Handbook Articles and Conference Proceedings
Adverbial subordination. In S. Luraghi and C. Parodi, (eds.), A Companion to Syntax. London: Continuum Books.
Holger Diessel. Forthcoming.
Construction Grammar and First Language Acquisition. In Graeme Trousdale and Thomas Hoffmann (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Holger Diessel. Forthcoming.
Grammaticalization and Language Acquisition. In Bernd Heine and Heiko Norrog (eds.), Handbook of Grammaticalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Holger Diessel. Forthcoming.
Language Change and Language Acquisition. In Alexander Bergs and Laural Brinton (eds.), Historical Linguistics of English: An International Handbook. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Holger Diessel. Forthcoming.
Varieties of deixis. In Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger, Paul Portner (eds.), An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Holger Diessel. 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]
Holger Diessel. 2009.
Corpus linguistics and language acquisition. In Anke Lüdeling and Merja Kytö (eds.), Corpus Linguistics. An International Handbook.1197-1212. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Holger Diessel. 2007.
A construction-based analysis of the acquisition of East Asian relative clauses. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 29: 311-320.
Holger Diessel. 2007.
Verberstkonstruktionen im Englischen und Deutschen. In Christian Lehmann, Peter Gallmann and Rosemarie Lühr (eds.), Sprachliche Motivation - zur Interdependenz von Inhalt und Ausdruck. 24-40. Tübingen: Narr.
Holger Diessel. 2006.
Komplexe Konstruktionen im Erstspracherwerb. In Kerstin Fischer und Anatol Stefanowitsch (eds.), Konstruktionsgrammatik -- Von der Anwendung zur Theorie, 36-51. Tübingen: Stauffenberg.
Holger Diessel. 2006.
Demonstratives. In Keith Brown (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 430-435. Elsevier: Oxford. [2nd edition]
Holger Diessel and Michael Tomasello. 1999.
Why complement clauses do not include a that-complementizer in early child language. Berkeley Linguistics Society 25: 86-97.
Holger Diessel. 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.
Holger Diessel. 1997.
The diachronic reanalysis of demonstratives in crosslinguistic perspective. Chicago Linguistic Society 33: 83-97.
Holger Diessel. 1997.
Predicative demonstratives. Berkeley Linguistics Society 23: 72-82.
Holger Diessel. 1996.
Processing factors of pre- and postposed adverbial clauses. Berkeley Linguistics Society 22: 71-82.
Reviews
Review of Ewa Dabrowska. 2004. Language, Mind, and Brain. Washington: Georgetown University. Language 84: 186-189.
Holger Diessel. 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
Holger Diessel. 2006.
Review of Frans Plank. (ed.) 2003. Noun Phrase Structure in the Languages of Europe. Studies in Language 30: 195-200.
Holger Diessel. 2003.
Review of Joan Bybee and Paul Hopper. (eds.) 2001. Frequency and the emergence of grammatical structure. Journal of Linguistics 39: 167-171.
Holger Diessel. 2001.
Review of Christopher Lyons. 1999. Definiteness. Linguistic Typology 5: 117-124.
Holger Diessel. 2000.
Review of Nikolaus Himmelmann. 1997. Deiktikon, Artikel, Nominalphrase. Zur Emergenz syntaktischer Struktur. Linguistic Typology 4: 273-281.
Working Papers
The use of demonstratives in Oneida narratives. Buffalo Papers in Linguistics 11: 16-38.
Holger Diessel. 1996.
German ‘wenn’: A study in cognitive semantics. Buffalo Papers in Linguistics 8: 39-56.