Publicaties
Conversion vs coercion in the nominal domain : two phenomena at the lexis-grammar interface Universiteit Gent
MIHI EST construction : an instance of non-canonical subject marking in Romanian Universiteit Gent
This book examines the Romanian mihi est construction (Mi-e foame/frică, me.dat = is hunger/fear ‘I am hungry/ afraid’). While it disappeared from all other Romance languages to be replaced with a habeo structure, the mihi est pattern is in Romanian the most common way of expressing psychological or physiological states. By means of synchronic and diachronic corpus studies, the book investigates the status of the core arguments of the mihi est ...
La linguistique française en Flandre Universiteit Gent
How abstract are logical representations? The role of verb semantics in representing quantifier scope Universiteit Gent
Language comprehension involves the derivation of the meaning of sentences by combining the meanings of their parts. In some cases, this can lead to ambiguity. A sentence like Every hiker climbed a hill allows two logical representations: One that specifies that every hiker climbed a different hill and one that specifies that every hiker climbed the same hill. The interpretations of such sentences can be primed: Exposure to a particular reading ...
Syntactic productivity under the microscope : the lexical and semantic openness of Dutch minimizing constructions Universiteit Gent
This paper investigates different aspects of syntactic productivity and its relation to semantics. Based on a case study of 43 Dutch minimizing constructions, the correlations between nine different variables are examined: metrics of lexical openness (TypeTokenRatio, HapaxTokenRatio, HapaxTypeRatio), measures of conventionalization (FrTop1, MeanFrTop3, SDTop3), characteristics of the frequency distribution (Alpha parameter of the Zipf curve) and ...