Niek Van Wettere
List of John Benjamins publications in which Niek Van Wettere is involved.
Articles
2022 The hapax / type ratio: An indicator of minimally required sample size in productivity studies? International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:2, pp. 166–190 | Article
This article addresses one of the lesser-known productivity measures, namely the hapax / type ratio (HTR). Through a case study involving the Dutch semi-copula raken (“attain”), it is shown that the HTR more or less stabilizes from a certain sample size onwards. Moreover, this point of… read more
2021 Productivity of French and Dutch (semi-)copular constructions and the adverse impact of high token frequency International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 26:3, pp. 396–428 | Article
This paper examines the productivity of the subject complement slot in a set of French and Dutch (semi-)copular micro-constructions. The presumed counterpart of productivity, conventionalization in the form of high token frequency, will also be taken into account in the analysis of the… read more
2021 The copular subschema[ become/devenir + past participle]in English and French: Productivity and degrees of passivity Languages in Contrast 21:1, pp. 112–137 | Article
This article presents a contrastive analysis of the English copular subschema [become + past participle] and the equivalent copular subschema [devenir + past participle] in French, based on web data. It is shown that both patterns are almost equally productive at the subject complement level.… read more