Faye Troughton
List of John Benjamins publications in which Faye Troughton is involved.
Articles
2026 Chapter 9. Mirativity in exclamative constructions: A cross-linguistic and crossregister approach Cross-linguistic Register Variation, Rørvik, Sylvi and Marlén Izquierdo (eds.), pp. 214–236 | Chapter
This chapter details an exploration of mirativity, a semantic category signalling a proposition as new, from a cross-linguistic and cross-register perspective. English and French exclamative constructions in parliamentary discourse and written fiction are examined for their conceptual… read more
2024 Projected meaning in English and French: The embedded exclamative construction Linguistic Constructions, Trawiński, Beata, Marc Kupietz and Kristel Proost (eds.), pp. 248–270 | Article
This study offers a reanalysis of embedded exclamative constructions as true exclamative, and even as mirative, items. Through a quantitative study of the constructions and the verbs that licence them in English and French, it is demonstrated that not only do these embedded constructions… read more