Publications
Entre verbe et adverbe : grammaticalisation et dégrammaticalisation du marqueur épistémique umeengo/umeenga en kirundi (bantou, JD62) Ghent University
La présente étude concerne lU+2019évolution sémantique et formelle dU+2019un adverbe épistémique du kirundi, umeengo/umeenga, les deux formes constituant des variantes libres. Elle est une des premières études sU+2019inscrivant en linguistique de corpus pour les langues bantoues, une démarche rarement adoptée pour cette famille de langues, de même quU+2019elle étudie une catégorie grammaticale généralement négligée dans les études linguistiques, ...
Pathways of grammaticalisation in Italo-Romance Ghent University
The aim of this contribution is to discuss three possible theoretical interpretations of grammaticalised structures in present-day Italo-Romance varieties. In particular, we discuss and analyse three diachronic case studies in relation to the generative view of grammaticalisation. The first case-study revolves around the expression of future tense and modality. This is discussed in the light of the assumption according to which grammaticalised ...
Les structures pronominales en français : polyvalence syntaxique, ambiguïté sémantique et phénomènes de grammaticalisation : les cas de se mettre et se voir Ghent University
French pronominal structures, due to their syntactic and semantic flexibility, are particularly conducive to reanalysis and grammaticalization phenomena. Our contribution aims at describing the syntactic, lexico-semantic and cognitive conditions favorable to the reanalysis of pronominal constructions, on the basis of two case studies: (i) the inchoative auxiliary se mettre à, which we will interpret as a case of reanalysis in successive stages ...
Grammaticalisation cut short: A diachronic constructional view on english posture verbs KU Leuven
© 2018 John Benjamins B.V. This article provides a corpus-based diachronic constructional analysis of the three English cardinal posture verbs (hence CPVs) sit, stand and lie. Contrary to their equivalents in genetically related languages, the English CPVs have not grammaticalised into locative, progressive, or habitual markers or into copulas. The data reveal some degree of grammaticalisation in the earlier stages which suggests that the ...
On the Uzbek Converb construction starting with olib, its reanalysis, and its grammaticalisation Ghent University
Converb constructions are widely used in Uzbek, as in many other Turkic languages. A less studied type of converb construction is the one which can be referred to as the Converb Construction of Motion (CCM). In this article, first, four groups of Uzbek CCMs are distinguished and it is argued that the CCMs starting with olib, the converb of the verb ol- (U+2018takeU+2019), constitute an important subgroup within the second group. It is further ...