Caroline Gentens

List of John Benjamins publications in which Caroline Gentens is involved.

Reconnecting Form and Meaning: In honour of Kristin Davidse

Edited by Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière, William B. McGregor and An Van linden

This volume is intended as a celebration of Kristin Davidse’s work and its impact within the broad traditions of cognitive, functional and usage-based grammars. Reflecting this wide functionalist lens, the contributions develop ideas central to Neo-Firthian theories of grammar (in particular,… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 230] 2023. vii, 305 pp.

Notes from the field on perspective-indexing constructions: Irregular shifts and perspective persistence

Edited by Stef Spronck, An Van linden, Caroline Gentens and María Sol Sansiñena

Special issue of Functions of Language 27:1 (2020) v, 112 pp.

Irregular perspective shifts and perspective persistence: Discourse-oriented and theoretical approaches

Edited by Caroline Gentens, María Sol Sansiñena, Stef Spronck and An Van linden

Special issue of Pragmatics 29:2 (2019) v, 154 pp. | open access

Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns

Edited by Kristin Davidse, Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière and Lieven Vandelanotte

The studies in this volume approach English grammatical patterns in novel ways by interrogating corpora, focusing on patterns in the verb phrase (tense, aspect and modality), the noun phrase (intensification and focus marking), complementation structures and clause combining. Some studies… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 63] 2014. viii, 358 pp.

Kapitonov, Ivan and Caroline Gentens 2026 Chapter 28. On similarity, mistake, and belief revision: The case of yimarne(k) in Kunbarlang The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations, Riesberg, Sonja, Uta Reinöhl and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 786–814 | Chapter

The marker yimarne(k) in Kunbarlang can be used to signal “mistaken belief”, whereby a proposition held as a belief at some point is now considered false. The various functions and formal types of expressions yimarne(k) combines with point to an analysis in terms of two separate markers, a short… read more

Gentens, Caroline, Lobke Ghesquière, William B. McGregor and An Van linden 2023 Introduction. Reconnecting form and meaning: Lexis and grammar from cognitive-functional and usage-based perspectives Reconnecting Form and Meaning: In honour of Kristin Davidse, Gentens, Caroline, Lobke Ghesquière, William B. McGregor and An Van linden (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Chapter

Spronck, Stef, An Van linden, Caroline Gentens and María Sol Sansiñena 2020 Perspective persistence and irregular perspective shift: Mismatches in form-function pairings Notes from the field on perspective-indexing constructions: Irregular shifts and perspective persistence, Spronck, Stef, An Van linden, Caroline Gentens and María Sol Sansiñena (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Article

Gentens, Caroline, María Sol Sansiñena, Stef Spronck and An Van linden 2019 Irregular perspective shifts and perspective persistence, discourse-oriented and theoretical approaches Irregular perspective shifts and perspective persistence: Discourse-oriented and theoretical approaches, Gentens, Caroline, María Sol Sansiñena, Stef Spronck and An Van linden (eds.), pp. 155–169 | Introduction

In this introduction, we set out the central themes of the special issue. It concentrates on imperfect function-form mappings, and discusses several cases in which specific perspectival meanings are not fully predictable on the basis of a perspectivizing grammatical construction alone. We… read more

Breban, Tine and Caroline Gentens 2016  Multiple shifts: New views on pathways and mechanisms of grammaticalization in the English noun phrase The Structure of the English NP: Synchronic and diachronic explorations, Davidse, Kristin (ed.), pp. 40–59 | Article

In this paper we report on a historical corpus study of English multiple, an adjective which underwent a process of grammaticalization starting from lexical uses with the meaning ‘composite’, e.g. HR 3617 is a multiple star, to grammaticalized uses as individualizer, paraphrasable as ‘different’,… read more

Gentens, Caroline, Ditte Kimps, Kristin Davidse, Gilles Jacobs, An Van linden and Lieselotte Brems 2016 Mirativity and rhetorical structure: The development and prosody of disjunct and anaphoric adverbials with ‘no’ wonder Outside the Clause: Form and function of extra-clausal constituents, Kaltenböck, Gunther, Evelien Keizer and Arne Lohmann (eds.), pp. 125–156 | Article

This paper studies from a synchronic-diachronic perspective the formal and semantic-discursive properties of adverbial expressions with a negative quantifier + wonder (henceforth ‘no’ wonder). They are used as mirative qualifiers which assess a proposition as ‘not surprising’, typically motivated… read more

Gentens, Caroline 2015 “Factive” parenthetical clauses? A synchronic and diachronic account of I regret (to say) Journal of Historical Pragmatics 16:2, pp. 218–249 | Article

Regret has traditionally been regarded as a “true factive” predicate that always presupposes the truth of its complement and cannot occur in parenthetical clauses (Hooper 1975). In the light of earlier observations that I regret and I regret to say have acquired non-factive uses (Heyvaert and… read more

Davidse, Kristin, Lieven Vandelanotte, Caroline Gentens and Lobke Ghesquière 2014 Interrogating corpora to describe grammatical patterns Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns, Davidse, Kristin, Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière and Lieven Vandelanotte (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Article