Philippe Bourdin
List of John Benjamins publications in which Philippe Bourdin is involved.
2025 À propos de convenit, il convient, prosēkei , et les autres: Préverbation de ‘venir’ et marquage de la congruence Possibility and Necessity: Concepts and expressions of modality, Albrespit, Jean, Christelle Lacassain and Tracey Simpson (eds.), pp. 254–292 | Chapter
Il convient in contemporary French is a marker of congruence, where deonticity and axiology intersect. Congruence had also been basic to the semantics of Latin convenit: congruence with propriety, but also with the laws of nature or those of logic. This resulted in weak necessity competing… read more
2022 Chapter 5. On a few instances where deictic directionals confound expectations Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description: Deixis, asymmetries, constructions, Sarda, Laure and Benjamin Fagard (eds.), pp. 95–121 | Chapter
Directional deixis (DD) is characterized by a set of properties that recur across languages, e.g. the feature of goal-orientedness and the built-in asymmetry between ventive direction and itive direction. These properties define a formal and semantic space that has a core and a periphery. DD… read more
2008 On the grammaticalization of 'come' and 'go' into markers of textual connectivity Rethinking Grammaticalization: New perspectives, López-Couso, María José and Elena Seoane (eds.), pp. 37–59 | Article
There is crosslinguistic evidence that verbs of ‘coming’ and ‘going’ are prone to grammaticalize into sequential markers and, more generally, into textual connectives. This paper shows how, in the grammaticalization cline from directional deictics to sequentials, some of these markers have… read more
2006 The marking of directional deixis in Somali: How typological idiosyncratic is it? Studies in African Linguistic Typology, Voeltz, F.K. Erhard (ed.), pp. 13–41 | Article
2005 Venir en français contemporain: de deux fonctionnements périphrastiques Les Périphrases Verbales, Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot, Hava et Nicole Le Querler (dir.), pp. 261–278 | Article
2002 The grammaticalization of deictic directionals into modulators of temporal distance New Reflections on Grammaticalization, Wischer, Ilse and Gabriele Diewald (eds.), pp. 181–199 | Article