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On the aspect of deverbal nominals: a corpus study of perception nominalizations in Spanish Ghent University
Nominalizations have mainly been studied from a theoretical point of view and consequently, elaborate corpus studies on this category are hard to find. Moreover, apart from some recent interest in psychological nouns, literature has generally focused on prototypical instances, i.e. deverbal nominalizations derived from verbs with an agentive subject (e.g. construction, translation). This paper fills up these gaps by examining the aspectual ...
An eye movement corpus study of the age-of-acquisition effect Ghent University
Towards a monitor corpus for a Bantu language : a case study of neology detection in Lusoga Ghent University
This paper looks at whether, after two decades of corpus building for the Bantu languages, the time is ripe to begin using monitor corpora. As a proof-of-concept, the usefulness of a Lusoga monitor corpus for lexicographic purposes, in casu for the detection of neologisms, both in terms of new words and new meanings, is investigated and found useful.
Towards a monitor corpus for a Bantu language : a case study of neology detection in Lusoga Ghent University
Verb disposition in argument structure alternations: a corpus study of the Dutch dative alternation Ghent University
Coherence relations across speech and sign language : a comparable corpus study of additive connectives Ghent University
A quantitative and qualitative corpus study of the acquisition of topic constructions in child French KU Leuven
In this PhD, we investigate the interaction between syntax and information structure (IS) in child French. Our case study is the analysis of dislocations, which are argued to indicate the topic of the sentence ("what the sentence is about"): (1) Les chats ils font miaou. 'Cats meow.' (Flavie, corpus TCOF, 6;1.4) (2) Où il est le papillon? 'Where's the butterfly?' (Marie, corpus Lyon, 2;1.13) The main contributions of this PhD to the field are ...
The Art of Teasing. A corpus study of teasing sequences in American sitcoms between 1990 and 1999 KU Leuven
In this contribution, we focus on teasing as a prominent expression of layered communication. Depending on the situational and contextual grounding of an interaction, teasing serves different communicative functions. It does make a difference, for instance, whether teasing takes place among long-time friends, relatives or among economic competitors, colleagues or even political enemies. Similarly, it makes a difference whether a teasing sequence ...
Dictionary, corpus and CAT tool use in legal and business translation: a comparative pilot study KU Leuven
This article aims at assessing the impact of the use of monolingual original corpora in the target language, hereafter MOC, containing texts produced by native speakers, on translation quality with respect to errors related to the relationship between source and target text (adequacy errors) and errors in the target text independent of the source text (acceptability errors) (cf. (Daems et al 2014:62). Past limited research has shown that MOC ...