Caroline Marty
List of John Benjamins publications in which Caroline Marty is involved.
Articles
2025 The cabins (can) sleep four — possibility in the capacitive structure in English Possibility and Necessity: Concepts and expressions of modality, Albrespit, Jean, Christelle Lacassain and Tracey Simpson (eds.), pp. 310–325 | Chapter
This paper focuses on the expression of possibility in the capacitive structure, which can be found in sentences such as The tent sleeps four or The bench seats two. The complementation pattern predicates a quantified capacity of the referent of the subject. The modality expressed here is root,… read more
2020 Patterns of coining and constructions: The role of productivity The Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research, Colleman, Timothy, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena (eds.), pp. 30–41 | Article
We develop the notion of pattern of coining found in some complete-inheritance models of Construction Grammar (Fillmore 1997; Kay 2013), which are processes used to coin new units based on analogy with an existing one. Unlike constructions, they cannot be considered systematically productive in… read more
2018 Denominations of humans: The case of compounds in English From Culture to Language and Back: The Animacy Hierarchy in language and discourse, Gardelle, Laure and Sandrine Sorlin (eds.), pp. 163–183 | Article
In English, the lexicon is one of the many areas affected by the asymmetry in the treatment of humans and inanimates. The study focuses on compounds. We compare compounds denoting human animates to those denoting inanimates. We find that there are proportionately few compounds for humans, and… read more