Grammaticalisation: Le cas des prépositions locatives
Sous la direction de Michèle Goyens et Walter De Mulder
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 25:2 (2003) iv, 185 pp.
Michèle Goyens
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michèle Goyens is involved.
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2025 Chapter 2. Terminology at the end of the Middle Ages in France Terminology throughout History: A discipline in the making, Warburton, Kara and John Humbley (eds.), pp. 48–65 | Chapter
The Middle Ages were characterised by the emergence of European vernacular languages, which took their place beside Latin, hitherto the language of science practised by learned clerics and academics. Latin terminology was at the same time constituted by the integration of Greco-Latin and Arabic… read more
2013 De: A genitive marker in French? Its grammaticalization path from Latin to French The Genitive, Carlier, Anne and Jean-Christophe Verstraete (eds.), pp. 141–216 | Article
This paper deals with the evolution of the genitive case from Latin to Old and Middle French, and from Middle French to Modern French. The loss of morphological case inflection in French raises the question whether the category of the genitive is still a relevant notion. The authors claim it is, by… read more
2003 Présentation Grammaticalisation: Le cas des prépositions locatives, Goyens, Michèle et Walter De Mulder (dir.), pp. 185–203 | Article
2003 Déplacement et repositionnement de la préposition à en français Grammaticalisation: Le cas des prépositions locatives, Goyens, Michèle et Walter De Mulder (dir.), pp. 275–310 | Article
In Modern French, the preposition à has a large number of uses, in contrast to the Latin prepositions ad, ab and apud from which it derives. They can be classified into seven groups: complements expressing (1) place (where?), (2) time (when?), (3) manner, cause or instrument (how?); non locative… read more
1990 Translation as a Witness to Semantic Change Diachronic Semantics, Geeraerts, Dirk (ed.), pp. 109–131 | Article