Lieselotte Brems
List of John Benjamins publications in which Lieselotte Brems is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1874-8767 | E‑ISSN 1874‑8775
Similatives: Semantic sources, pathways, and types of usage
Edited by Anna Kisiel, Hélène Vassiliadou, Valentina Benigni, Beatrice Bernasconi, Lieselotte Brems and Dejan Stosic
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 48:2 (2025) v, 257 pp.
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.
Intersubjectivity and Intersubjectification in Grammar and Discourse: Theoretical and descriptive advances
Edited by Lieselotte Brems, Lobke Ghesquière and Freek Van de Velde
Recent years saw a growing interest in the study of subjectivity, as the linguistic expression of speaker involvement. Intersubjectivity, defined by Traugott as "the linguistic expression of a speaker/writer's attention to the hearer/reader", on the other hand, has so far received little explicit… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 65] 2014. vi, 161 pp.
Intersections of Intersubjectivity
Edited by Lieselotte Brems, Lobke Ghesquière and Freek Van de Velde
Special issue of English Text Construction 5:1 (2012) v, 152 pp.
Grammaticalization and Language Change: New reflections
Edited by Kristin Davidse, Tine Breban, Lieselotte Brems and Tanja Mortelmans
This collective volume focuses on the latest developments in the study of grammaticalization and related processes of change such as degrammaticalization, constructionalization, lexicalization, and petrification. It addresses topical issues relating to the motivations, sources, defining features,… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 130] 2012. viii, 342 pp.
2025 Introduction Similatives: Semantic sources, pathways, and types of usage, Kisiel, Anna, Hélène Vassiliadou, Valentina Benigni, Beatrice Bernasconi, Lieselotte Brems and Dejan Stosic (eds.), pp. 179–188 | Introduction
2020 Chapter 8. Present-day English constructions with chance ( s ) in Talmy’s greater modal system and beyond Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions: Categories, co-text, and context, Hohaus, Pascal and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 195–222 | Chapter
Based on qualitative and quantitative corpus research, this chapter argues that constructions with chance(s) in Present-day English enrich Talmy’s (1988) greater modal system in various ways. Firstly, in their modal uses they are equivalent to core modal auxiliaries and encode especially dynamic… read more
2016 Mirativity and rhetorical structure: The development and prosody of disjunct and anaphoric adverbials with ‘no’ wonder Outside the Clause: Form and function of extra-clausal constituents, Kaltenböck, Gunther, Evelien Keizer and Arne Lohmann (eds.), pp. 125–156 | Article
This paper studies from a synchronic-diachronic perspective the formal and semantic-discursive properties of adverbial expressions with a negative quantifier + wonder (henceforth ‘no’ wonder). They are used as mirative qualifiers which assess a proposition as ‘not surprising’, typically motivated… read more
2015 Martin Hilpert, Construction Grammar and its Application to English English Text Construction 8:1, pp. 132–136 | Article
2014 Intersections of intersubjectivity Intersubjectivity and Intersubjectification in Grammar and Discourse: Theoretical and descriptive advances, Brems, Lieselotte, Lobke Ghesquière and Freek Van de Velde (eds.), pp. 1–5 | Article
2014 Intersubjectivity and intersubjectification: Typology and operationalization Intersubjectivity and Intersubjectification in Grammar and Discourse: Theoretical and descriptive advances, Brems, Lieselotte, Lobke Ghesquière and Freek Van de Velde (eds.), pp. 129–153 | Article
In this paper we present our views on intersubjectivity and intersubjectification with reference to case studies on adjectives, hedges, tags, honorifics, etc. Building on Diessel’s notion of “joint attention” and Traugott’s approach to intersubjectivity, we propose a distinction between three types… read more
2013 Karin Aijmer (ed.), Contrastive Pragmatics English Text Construction 6:2, pp. 301–305 | Article
2012 Introduction: New reflections on the sources, outcomes, defining features and motivations of grammaticalization Grammaticalization and Language Change: New reflections, Davidse, Kristin, Tine Breban, Lieselotte Brems and Tanja Mortelmans (eds.), pp. 1–36 | Article
2012 The establishment of quantifier constructions for size nouns: A diachronic case study of heap(s) and lot(s) Journal of Historical Pragmatics 13:2, pp. 202–231 | Article
Based on exhaustive diachronic corpus data, this paper determines the relative chronology in which the size nouns heap(s) and lot(s) have developed quantifier uses within NP of NP-syntagms, as in heaps / a lot of people. Using a constructional approach, it is claimed that size nouns occur in three… read more
2012 Intersections of intersubjectivity Intersections of Intersubjectivity, Brems, Lieselotte, Lobke Ghesquière and Freek Van de Velde (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Article
2012 Intersubjectivity and intersubjectification: Typology and operationalization Intersections of Intersubjectivity, Brems, Lieselotte, Lobke Ghesquière and Freek Van de Velde (eds.), pp. 128–152 | Article
In this paper we present our views on intersubjectivity and intersubjectification with reference to case studies on adjectives, hedges, tags, honorifics, etc. Building on Diessel’s notion of “joint attention” and Traugott’s approach to intersubjectivity, we propose a distinction between three… read more
2008 Type noun uses in the English NP: A case of right to left layering International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 13:2, pp. 139–168 | Article
This article addresses the relatively neglected question of identifying and characterizing the various uses of sort, kind and type in the English NP. It does so on the basis of close analysis of a set of data extracted from the Times subcorpus of the COBUILD corpus. The proposed description refers… read more
2003 Measure Noun constructions: An instance of semantically-driven grammaticalization International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 8:2, pp. 283–312 | Article
In a narrow sense, the term ‘Measure Noun' (MN) refers to such nouns as acre and kilo, which typically measure off a well-established and specific portion of the mass or entity specified in a following of-phrase, e.g. a kilo of apples. When used like this, the MN is generally considered to… read more