Wout Van Praet

List of John Benjamins publications in which Wout Van Praet is involved.

Journal

Functions of Language

Edited by J. Lachlan Mackenzie, Elena Smirnova and Sumin Zhao

ISSN 0929-998X | E‑ISSN 1569‑9765

Title

Grammar, usage and discourse: Functional studies offered to Kristin Davidse

Edited by Lieven Vandelanotte, Wout Van Praet and Lieselotte Brems

Special issue of English Text Construction 10:2 (2017) v, 159 pp.

Verbeke, Gil and Wout Van Praet 2024 The interplay between prosodic prominence and boundary strength in the production of English checked steady-state vowels English Text Construction 17:2, pp. 262–288 | Article

This paper studies the effect of prosodic prominence on the production of English checked steady-state vowels. Previous studies found that prosodic factors, such as proximity to a strong prosodic boundary, influence vowel production, but the effect of prosodic prominence has not been studied in… read more

Van Praet, Wout 2021 Re-evaluating the importance of discourse-embedding for specificational and predicative clauses Pragmatics 31:4, pp. 560–588 | Article

This paper studies the discourse-embedding of specificational clauses, in contrast with predicative ones. Specificational clauses – which express a variable – value relation – are assumed to have a ‘fixed’ information structure. This follows from the widespread definition of information… read more

Van Praet, Wout 2019 Aspect and modality in English predicative and specificational copular clauses English Text Construction 12:2, pp. 196–234 | Article

This paper investigates the use of aspect and modality in English predicative and specificational copulars. To examine attractions of aspectual and modal meanings to the VPs in the copular constructions, I carry out collostructional analyses (Stefanowitsch & Gries 2003). These attractions are… read more

Van Praet, Wout 2018 Michael Fortescue, The Abstraction Engine: Extracting Patterns in Language, Mind and Brain English Text Construction 11:2, pp. 322–328 | Review