Mégane Lesuisse
List of John Benjamins publications in which Mégane Lesuisse is involved.
Articles
2019 The necessity modals have to, must, need to, and should: Using n-grams to help identify common and distinct semantic and pragmatic aspects On the Role of Pragmatics in Construction Grammar, Finkbeiner, Rita (ed.), pp. 220–243 | Article
When an ambiguous lexical item appears within a familiar string of words, it can instantly receive an appropriate interpretation from this context, thus being saturated by it. Such a context may also short-circuit illocutionary and other pragmatic aspects of interpretation. We here extract from… 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