Hélène Margerie
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hélène Margerie is involved.
Articles
2013 Can you literally be scared sick? The role of analogy in the rise of a network of Resultative and Degree Modifier constructions Synchrony and Diachrony: A dynamic interface, Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Caterina Mauri and Piera Molinelli (eds.), pp. 79–104 | Article
This paper examines an unexpected pattern of change related to the Resultative and Degree Modifier constructions np1 scare np2 sick/np be (literally) scared sick in the light of comparable diachronic changes (Margerie 2011). While some resultative constructions of the form np1 vb np2 xp//np be adj… read more
2008 A historical and collexeme analysis of the development of the compromiser fairly Journal of Historical Pragmatics 9:2, pp. 288–314 | Article
This paper discusses the historical evolution of fairly as a compromiser. Rather, which had already developed into a compromiser by the time fairly started going down the same cline, provides the background for the study of the grammaticalisation of fairly. Based on electronic corpora, the… read more