Hubert Cuyckens
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hubert Cuyckens is involved.
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ISSN 0774-5141 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9676
Explorations in English Historical Syntax
Edited by Hubert Cuyckens, Hendrik De Smet, Liesbet Heyvaert and Charlotte Maekelberghe
The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite clauses, elements in the clause periphery, as well as elements with potential scope over complete sentences and even larger discourse chunks. In one… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 198] 2018. viii, 312 pp.
Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English
Edited by Peter Petré, Hubert Cuyckens and Frauke D'hoedt
The chapters collected in this volume examine how the sociohistorical and cultural context may influence structural features of lexis and text types. Each paper pays particular attention to social ‘labels’ and attitudes (conservative, religious, ideological, endearing, or other), thereby focusing… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 343] 2018. viii, 258 pp.
Shared Grammaticalization: With special focus on the Transeurasian languages
Edited by Martine Robbeets and Hubert Cuyckens
This book offers fresh perspectives on “shared grammaticalization”, a state whereby two or more languages have the source and the target of a grammaticalization process in common. While contact-induced grammaticalization has generated great interest in recent years, far less attention has been paid… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 132] 2013. xv, 360 pp.
Grammaticalization and Language Change: New reflections
Edited by Kristin Davidse, Tine Breban, Lieselotte Brems and Tanja Mortelmans
This collective volume focuses on the latest developments in the study of grammaticalization and related processes of change such as degrammaticalization, constructionalization, lexicalization, and petrification. It addresses topical issues relating to the motivations, sources, defining features,… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 130] 2012. viii, 342 pp.
Formal Evidence in Grammaticalization Research
Edited by An Van linden, Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Kristin Davidse
This collective volume focuses on the crucial role of formal evidence in recognizing and explaining instances of grammaticalization. It addresses the hitherto neglected issue of system-internal factors steering grammaticalization and also revisits formal recognition criteria such as Lehmann and… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 94] 2010. viii, 344 pp.
Adpositions of Movement
Edited by Hubert Cuyckens, Walter De Mulder and Tanja Mortelmans
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.read more
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 18] 2004. viii, 323 pp.
Motivation in Language: Studies in honor of Günter Radden
Edited by Hubert Cuyckens, Thomas Berg, René Dirven † and Klaus-Uwe Panther
This volume contributes to the now one-century old question, ‘Is the link between forms and meanings in language essentially arbitrary, as Saussure put it, or is it on the contrary also considerably motivated?’ The greater part of the papers (Sections 1–3) analyze linguistic phenomena in which not… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 243] 2003. xxvi, 403 pp.
Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997
Edited by Hubert Cuyckens and Britta E. Zawada
In Cognitive Linguistics, polysemy is regarded as a categorizing phenomenon; i.e., related meanings of words form categories centering around a prototype and bearing family resemblance relations to one another. Under this polysemy = categorization view, the scope of investigation has been gradually… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 177] 2001. xxvii, 296 pp.
Dialogue: An interdisciplinary approach
Edited by Marcelo Dascal †
Dialogue: An interdisciplinary approach is a pioneering collection of papers that take Dialogue Studies out of its ‘classic’ narrow definition into the study of the complexities and processes in dialogue. It is a first move toward interdisciplinary research in Dialogue Studies. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series, 1] 1985. xiv, 473 pp.
2023 The grammaticalization of impossibility: The emergence of the Mandarin modal auxiliary wufa Language and Linguistics 24:4, pp. 733–763 | Article
This study, based on the analysis of historical corpus data, investigates the diachronic development of the Mandarin modal auxiliary wufa and establishes implications both for the grammaticalization of modals and for grammaticalization theory in general. Specifically, our study shows the… read more
2018 Introduction. Exploring English historical syntax Explorations in English Historical Syntax, Cuyckens, Hubert, Hendrik De Smet, Liesbet Heyvaert and Charlotte Maekelberghe (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Chapter
2018 Introduction: Philology as linguistically informed cultural history Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English, Petré, Peter, Hubert Cuyckens and Frauke D'hoedt (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Chapter
2014 The diffusion of English absolutes: A diachronic register study Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns, Davidse, Kristin, Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière and Lieven Vandelanotte (eds.), pp. 265–294 | Article
The present paper addresses the register diffusion of the English absolute, a non-finite construction functioning as an adverbial (an example from Present-day-English is: One of the cheap cigars to which she was addicted burns ignored between her fingers, the skin of her face dragging down with… read more
2014 A diachronic corpus-based multivariate analysis of “I think that” vs. “I think zero” Corpus Methods for Semantics: Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy, Glynn, Dylan and Justyna A. Robinson (eds.), pp. 279–303 | Article
This corpus-driven study seeks to explain the choice between the zero complement and the that complement constructions, when occurring with the mental state predicate think. Previous studies have identified a range of factors that are argued to explain the alternation patterns. Such studies have… read more
2013 Gradualness in change in English (augmented) absolutes Synchrony and Diachrony: A dynamic interface, Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Caterina Mauri and Piera Molinelli (eds.), pp. 341–366 | Article
This paper investigates the gradual semantic and syntactic development of Absolute Constructions (AC) in English (an example from Present-day English is: With the teacher refusing to comply, Barry took the matter to the dean (Berent 1975: 11)). On the basis of a comprehensive study of ACs in the… read more
2013 Chapter 1. Towards a typology of shared grammaticalization Shared Grammaticalization: With special focus on the Transeurasian languages, Robbeets, Martine and Hubert Cuyckens (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter
2008 The Old English copula weorðan and its replacement in Middle English English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006, Gotti, Maurizio, Marina Dossena and Richard Dury (eds.), pp. 23–48 | Article
With the aid of a specially compiled corpus, this paper accounts for the replacement – mainly by become – of weorðan ‘become’, whose use rapidly decreased in Middle English. Drawing on Goldbergian construction grammar, the paper posits the existence of a lexeme-independent network of copular… read more
2004 Introduction Adpositions of Movement, Cuyckens, Hubert, Walter De Mulder and Tanja Mortelmans (eds.), p. | Miscellaneous
2001 Introduction Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997, Cuyckens, Hubert and Britta E. Zawada (eds.), pp. ix–xxvii | Miscellaneous
1996 Review of Nolan (1994): Cognitive Practices: Human Language and Human Knowledge Functions of Language 3:1, pp. 135–138 | Review
1995 Van Door Naar Through en by Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen 53, pp. 203–212 | Article
The Dutch preposition door can be translated with through (typically in adverbial clauses of time/place) or by (typically as a marker for the passive agent and the causee). The choice between these two seems at first sight not to be very difficult for Dutch learners of English. This should come as… read more
1984 The Deictic Vs. Non-Deictic Ambiguity in the Spatial Uses of Prepositions Lingvisticæ Investigationes 8:1, pp. 187–194 | Discussion
1982 Componential Analysis in Psycholinguistics ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 57, pp. 53–75 | Article