Olivier Simonin

List of John Benjamins publications in which Olivier Simonin is involved.

Articles

Simonin, Olivier 2025 From possibility to necessity: The development of to relative infinitives in Old English Possibility and Necessity: Concepts and expressions of modality, Albrespit, Jean, Christelle Lacassain and Tracey Simpson (eds.), pp. 293–309 | Chapter

Drawing on the YCOE corpus and other occurrences from Old English literature, I demonstrate how to relative infinitives conveying root possibility extended their distributional potential throughout the Old English period to come to denote obligation and, more generally, root necessity. I study… read more

Simonin, Olivier 2018 Chapter 4. Verbal irony, politeness… and three ironic types The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter, Jobert, Manuel and Sandrine Sorlin (eds.), pp. 59–80 | Chapter

This paper critically examines Leech’s (2014) view that verbal or conversational irony is subsumed by politeness considerations, and proposes a new, threefold account of verbal irony. Although Leech’s pragmatic model of irony is inadequate as a whole, it highlights crucial aspects of irony relating… read more