Isabeau De Smet

List of John Benjamins publications in which Isabeau De Smet is involved.

De Smet, Isabeau 2022 Review of Winters (2020): Historical Linguistics: A Cognitive Grammar Introduction: Historical Linguistics: A Cognitive Grammar Introduction Journal of Historical Pragmatics 23:1, pp. 168–174 | Review

De Smet, Isabeau 2022 Review of Winters (2020): Historical Linguistics: A Cognitive Grammar Introduction Journal of Historical Linguistics 12:2, pp. 327–333 | Review

De Smet, Isabeau and Freek Van de Velde 2019 Reassessing the evolution of West Germanic preterite inflection Diachronica 36:2, pp. 139–180 | Article

This article takes a quantitative approach to the long-term dynamics of the preterite inflection in West Germanic, with a special focus on Dutch. In a first step, we replicate two often-cited studies on English and German (Lieberman et al. 2007 and Carroll et al. 2012, respectively) by looking at… read more

Pijpops, Dirk, Isabeau De Smet and Freek Van de Velde 2018 Constructional contamination in morphology and syntax: Four case studies Asymmetries, Mismatches and Construction Grammar, Koutsoukos, Nikos, Kristel Van Goethem and Hendrik De Smet (eds.), pp. 269–305 | Article

In every-day language use, two or more structurally unrelated constructions may occasionally give rise to strings that look very similar on the surface. As a result of this superficial resemblance, a subset of instances of one of these constructions may deviate in the probabilistic preference… read more