Maarten Lemmens
List of John Benjamins publications in which Maarten Lemmens is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2213-8722 | E‑ISSN 2213‑8730
Yearbook
Title
Lexical Perspectives on Transitivity and Ergativity: Causative constructions in English
Maarten Lemmens
Fusing insights from cognitive grammar, systemic-functional grammar and Government & Binding, the present work elaborates and refines Davidse’s view that the English grammar of lexical causatives is governed by the transitive and ergative paradigms, two distinct models of causation (Davidse 1991,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 166] 1998. xii, 268 pp.
2021 The sound of taboo: Exploring a sound-meaning association in swear words of English and French Sex, Death & Politics: Taboos in Language, Keller, Melanie, Philipp Striedl, Daniel Biro, Johanna Holzer and Benjamin Weber (eds.), pp. 87–137 | Article
Swear words of English and French, both real and fictional ones, significantly tend to contain the least sonorous consonants, compared to the rest of the lexicon. What can explain the overrepresentation of such sounds among swear words? This might be a case of sound symbolism, when sounds are… read more
2018 Grammaticalisation cut short: A diachronic constructional view on English posture verbs Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar, Coussé, Evie, Peter Andersson and Joel Olofsson (eds.), pp. 43–73 | Chapter
This article provides a corpus-based diachronic constructional analysis of the three English cardinal posture verbs (hence CPVs) sit, stand and lie. Contrary to their equivalents in genetically related languages, the English CPVs have not grammaticalised into locative, progressive, or habitual… read more
2017 Degrees of mirativity The Linguistic Expression of Mirativity, Celle, Agnès and Anastasios Tsangalidis (eds.), pp. 343–384 | Article
This paper studies degrees of mirativity as grammaticalised in the Indo-Aryan language Odia by four light verb constructions, asymmetric complex predicates combining a lexical verb with a (partially) bleached light verb. As such, these light verb constructions can be considered non-parasitic… read more
2006 12. How experience structures the conceptualization of causality Cognitive Linguistics Investigations: Across languages, fields and philosophical boundaries, Luchjenbroers, June (ed.), pp. 255–270 | Chapter
2002 6. The semantic network of Dutch posture verbs The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing and Lying, Newman, John (ed.), pp. 103–139 | Chapter
1999 The Transitive-Ergative Interplay and the Conception of the World: A Case Study Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning: Proceedings of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995, Verspoor, Marjolijn H., Kee Dong Lee and Eve Sweetser (eds.), pp. 363–382 | Article