Dominique Willems
List of John Benjamins publications in which Dominique Willems is involved.
Yearbook
ISSN 0774-5141 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9676
2022 Structuralism Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1318–1344 | Chapter
2014 Chapter 4. A constructional corpus-based approach to ‘weak’ verbs in French Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar, Boas, Hans C. and Francisco Gonzálvez-García (eds.), pp. 113–138 | Article
‘Weak’ verbs, also known as ‘parenthetical’, ‘evidential’ or ‘epistemic’ verbs, have interested linguists and philosophers for many years. In recent analyses they are treated mainly from a pragmatic point of view, and, through a process of advanced grammaticalization, they are often grouped… read more
2012 Degrees of pragmaticalization: The divergent histories of ‘actually’ and actuellement Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization: Lessons from false friends, Lauwers, Peter, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede and Stijn Verleyen (eds.), pp. 37–64 | Article
Despite their formal resemblance, the English word ‘actually’ and the French word actuellement fulfil very different semantic-pragmatic functions in their present-day usage. In most cases they are ‘false friends’, as they overlap in meaning in a very limited number of contexts only. Since these… read more
2012 Verb typology: Between construction and lexicon Constructions in French, Bouveret, Myriam and Dominique Legallois (eds.), pp. 23–48 | Article
In this paper, I first briefly present a global classification of French verbs, based on a systematic empirical analysis of the constructional and lexical properties of some 3,000 verbs. I briefly present the heuristics, the results, and the limits of the proposed classification. Three important… read more
2011 The syntactic flexibility of (new) verbs of instrument of communication: A corpus-based study Functions of Language 18:1, pp. 57–86 | Article
In this paper, the structural possibilities of well-established ‘verbs of instruments of communication’ (Levin 1993) such as telephone, fax and telegraph are compared with the syntactic possibilities of recent newcomers to the field such as skype and blackberry. The analysis, which is based on… read more
2010 Degrees of pragmaticalization: The divergent histories of ‘actually’ and actuellement Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization: Lessons from false friends, Lauwers, Peter, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede and Stijn Verleyen (eds.), pp. 166–193 | Article
Despite their formal resemblance, the English word ‘actually’ and the French word actuellement fulfil very different semantic-pragmatic functions in their present-day usage. In most cases they are ‘false friends’, as they overlap in meaning in a very limited number of contexts only. Since these… read more
2010 I blackberried him twice and skyped him a happy Father’s day: A propos des (nouveaux) verbes de Communication. Une étude contrastive français – anglais basée sur corpus French Syntax in Contrast, Lahousse, Karen, Béatrice Lamiroy and Kristel Van Goethem (eds.), pp. 285–306 | Article
In this article we zoom in on the Verbs of Instrument of Communication (B. Levin 1993) in English and French and address a number of interesting issues. We examine the structural possibilities of the old and new Verbs of Instrument of Communication in comparison with one another and across the two… read more
2006 Structuralism Handbook of Pragmatics: 2006 Installment, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1–36 | Article
1995 Structuralism Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 506–513 | Article
1992 A la recherche d’une structure perdue. Pour une hiérarchie sémantique des propriétés syntaxiques Études offertes à Karel van den Eynde
Études offertes à Karel van den Eynde: Volume II. Linguistique générale et linguistique descriptive, Delbecque, Nicole et Pierre Swiggers (dir.), pp. 243–257 | Article
Études offertes à Karel van den Eynde: Volume II. Linguistique générale et linguistique descriptive, Delbecque, Nicole et Pierre Swiggers (dir.), pp. 243–257 | Article
1978 À la recherche d’une grammaire des cas. Ses rapports avec la syntaxe et le léxique Valence, Semantic Case, and Grammatical Relations: Workshop studies prepared for the 12th International Congress of Linguists, Vienna, August 29th to September 3rd, 1977, Abraham, Werner (ed.), pp. 243–260 | Article