Publications
Productivity in diachrony Ghent University
From grammaticalization to Diachronic Construction Grammar : a natural evolution of the paradigm Ghent University
Comparing the argument structure of alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat predicates in German and Icelandic Ghent University
In this paper we compare a set of 15 Icelandic verbs licensing both a nominative and a dative argument, investigated by Somers & Barðdal (2022), with a corresponding set of 15 German verbs. The Icelandic dataset consists of verbs selecting for three different argument structures: a) ordinary Nom-Dat verbs, non-alternating Dat-Nom verbs and, finally, alternating Dat-Nom/Dat-Nom verbs. The German dataset contains either (near-)synonyms or ...
Non-nominative subjects in Latin and Ancient Greek : applying the subject tests on early Indo-European languages Ghent University
This article responds to a call for research, made by Hock (1990) more than 30 years ago, on the subject behavior of potential non-nominative subjects in the early Indo-European languages. Hock’s call was made in the wake of research into behavioral properties of non-nominative subjects in several modern languages. Since then, comprehensive studies have been carried out on the subject behavior of non-nominative subjects in the early Germanic ...
The alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat construction in present-day German : a corpus study Ghent University
Les centaures, Cerbère et leurs parents (non-)indo-européens (quelques notes sur les traces des contacts des Indo-européens au Proche Orient ancien) Ghent University
Cet article se concentre sur l'origine de plusieurs mots étymologiquement obscurs des vocabulaires grec et indo-iranien (surtout sanskrit) (principalement des noms faisant référence à certaines divinités ou créatures de panthéons mythologiques inférieurs), tels que gr. κένταυρος / skr. gandharvá- et gr. Κέρβερος / skr. śábala- (l’un des deux chiens de l’enfer dans la mythologie indienne). Je suppose que ces formes ne peuvent être tracées à aucun ...
The lexicography of Sanskrit Ghent University
Sanskrit is one of the most ancient attested Indo-European languages, and it has one of the oldest lexicographic traditions in the world. This chapter is organized as follows. The Introduction offers basic information about the chronology of, and the main texts in, Sanskrit. The first section of the Description outlines the characteristics of Sanskrit relevant for lexicography: its phonology and writing systems; its systems of alternation and ...
K ėtimologii dr.-gr. teonima Κρόνος : zametki o morfologičeskom tipe na -όνο- = On the etymology of the Ancient Greek theonym Κρόνος : notes on the morphological type in -όνο- Ghent University
The article discusses the etymology of the Greek theonym Κρόνος (Cronus), qualified by all dictionaries as etymologically unclear. I argue that this name can be considered as a member of the small class of nouns in ‑ όνο‑ with agent‑instrumental semantics. Following an old proposal by H. D. Müller (later advocated by M. Janda), I adopt the analysis of this name as a derivative of the verbal root *κερ‑ (cf. κείρω ‘cut’, Arm. kʻerem ‘scratch, ...