Machteld Meulleman

List of John Benjamins publications in which Machteld Meulleman is involved.

Articles

Meulleman, Machteld and Katia Paykin 2023 Chapter 3. Impersonal existence in the weather domain: French il y a vs. il fait Existential Constructions across Languages: Forms, meanings and functions, Sarda, Laure and Ludovica Lena (eds.), pp. 68–99 | Chapter

This contribution examines the co-existence in French of two impersonal constructions with a light verb and a weather noun, as in il y a / il fait du vent ‘it’s windy’ (lit. there is / it makes wind). Our starting point stems from Bauer’s (2000) observations on Vulgar Latin postulating that… read more

Fiorentino, Alice and Machteld Meulleman 2022 Chapter 15. The role of intercomprehension in short-term mobility experiences in multilingual contexts Advances in Interdisciplinary Language Policy, Grin, François, László Marácz and Nike K. Pokorn (eds.), pp. 297–316 | Chapter

Intercomprehension is a common and well-known mediation choice in established contexts of multilingualism such as bilingual families or neighbouring languages. However, in the context of mobility experiences this multilingual communication strategy is relatively rarely used and almost unstudied.… read more

Meulleman, Machteld 2017 Michel Achard. 2015. Impersonals and other Agent Defocusing Constructions in French  Verb Phrase and Fluid Construction Grammar, Steels, Luc and Katrien Beuls (eds.), pp. 321–328 | Review