Myriam Bouveret

List of John Benjamins publications in which Myriam Bouveret is involved.

Titles

Give Constructions across Languages

Edited by Myriam Bouveret

This cognitive contrastive study of ten languages (Chinese, Dalabon, English, French, Spanish, Romanian, Kurdish, Khmer, Polish, Tibetan) focuses on the concept of giving from six main points of view, namely argument structure, lexical semantics and event structure, role marking in the three… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 29] 2021. viii, 246 pp.

Constructions in French

Edited by Myriam Bouveret and Dominique Legallois

The book Constructions in French is the first collected volume to focus on French syntax from a constructionist perspective. It has been written with two kinds of readers in mind: for readers interested in the relationship between the French linguistic tradition and cognitive linguistics, and for… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 13] 2012. vi, 287 pp.

Akin, Salih and Myriam Bouveret 2021 Chapter 9. Grammar in usage and grammaticalization of dan ‘give’ constructions in Kurmanji Kurdish Give Constructions across Languages, Bouveret, Myriam (ed.), pp. 223–243 | Chapter

Belonging to the family of Indo-European languages, Kurdish is part of the Iranian group of this family, which gathers several modern languages such as Balochi, Ossetic, Persian, Tadjik, etc. The two main dialects that are closely related to each other are the Kurmanji dialect and the Sorani… read more

Bouveret, Myriam 2021 Introduction. Lexicalization, grammaticalization and constructionalization of the verb give across languages: A cognitive case study of language innovation Give Constructions across Languages, Bouveret, Myriam (ed.), pp. 1–22 | Chapter

This cognitive contrastive study across ten languages (Chinese, Dalabon, English, French, Spanish, Romanian, Kurdish, Khmer, Polish, Tibetan) focuses on the verb give and its syntactic-semantic interface based on six main points, namely argument structure, lexical semantics and event structure,… read more

Bouveret, Myriam 2012 GIVE frames and constructions in French Constructions in French, Bouveret, Myriam and Dominique Legallois (eds.), pp. 99–124 | Article

This paper presents a corpus-based study of the French verb donner ‘give’. Even though the central meaning of the verb relies on a three-place predicate profiling, a concrete GIVING frame with an agent, an object and a recipient, the frequencies in our different corpora show that it is not the most… read more

Bouveret, Myriam and Dominique Legallois 2012 Cognitive linguistics and the notion of construction in French studies: An overview Constructions in French, Bouveret, Myriam and Dominique Legallois (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Article

Bouveret, Myriam 2006 Fonctions lexicales pour le typage de relations syntagmatiques et paradigmatiques: Une approche lexicographique du terme Processing of Terms in Specialized Dictionaries: New Models and Techniques, L'Homme, Marie-Claude (ed.), pp. 235–259 | Article

In this paper, we present the conversion of a specialized dictionary of bioindustries by means of Lexical Functions (Mel’čuk et al. 1984, 1988, 1992, 1999 ; Mel’čuk et al. 1995). The dictionary is based on semantic derivation as described in Explanatory and Combinatorial Lexicology, and explores… read more

Bouveret, Myriam 2004 Critique de Setti (1999): La relation concept-objet autour des définitions de termes Terminology 10:2, pp. 307–314 | Review

Jousse, Anne-Laure and Myriam Bouveret 2003 Lexical functions to represent derivational relations in specialized dictionaries Terminology 9:1, pp. 71–98 | Article

We present in this paper a model of derivation encoded by means of Lexical Functions (Mel’č uk et al. 1984–1999, Mel’čuk et al. 1995, Wanner 1996). It is based on semantic derivation as in the Explanatory and Combinatorial Lexicology, but we examine the category of morphological derivatives in… read more

Bouveret, Myriam 2002 Review of Cowie (2001): Phraseology. Theory, Analysis, and Applications Terminology 8:1, pp. 170–174 | Review