Dominique Willems

Van de Walle, Jürgen, Dominique Willems and Klaas Willems 2022 Structuralism Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1318–1344 | Chapter

Willems, Dominique and Claire Blanche-Benveniste 2014 Chapter 4. A constructional corpus-based approach to ‘weak’ verbs in French Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar, Boas, Hans C. and Francisco Gonzálvez-García (eds.), pp. 113–138 | Article

‘Weak’ verbs, also known as ‘parenthetical’, ‘evidential’ or ‘epistemic’ verbs, have interested linguists and philosophers for many years. In recent analyses they are treated mainly from a pragmatic point of view, and, through a process of advanced grammaticalization, they are often grouped… read more

D'Hondt, Ulrique, Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen and Dominique Willems 2012 Degrees of pragmaticalization: The divergent histories of ‘actually’ and actuellement Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization: Lessons from false friends, Lauwers, Peter, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede and Stijn Verleyen (eds.), pp. 37–64 | Article

Despite their formal resemblance, the English word ‘actually’ and the French word actuellement fulfil very different semantic-pragmatic functions in their present-day usage. In most cases they are ‘false friends’, as they overlap in meaning in a very limited number of contexts only. Since these… read more

Willems, Dominique 2012 Verb typology: Between construction and lexicon Constructions in French, Bouveret, Myriam and Dominique Legallois (eds.), pp. 23–48 | Article

In this paper, I first briefly present a global classification of French verbs, based on a systematic empirical analysis of the constructional and lexical properties of some 3,000 verbs. I briefly present the heuristics, the results, and the limits of the proposed classification. Three important… read more

De Clerck, Bernard, Filip Verroens, Dominique Willems and Timothy Colleman 2011 The syntactic flexibility of (new) verbs of instrument of communication: A corpus-based study Functions of Language 18:1, pp. 57–86 | Article

In this paper, the structural possibilities of well-established ‘verbs of instruments of communication’ (Levin 1993) such as telephone, fax and telegraph are compared with the syntactic possibilities of recent newcomers to the field such as skype and blackberry. The analysis, which is based on… read more

Defour, Tine, Ulrique D'Hondt, Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen and Dominique Willems 2010 Degrees of pragmaticalization: The divergent histories of ‘actually’ and actuellement Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization: Lessons from false friends, Lauwers, Peter, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede and Stijn Verleyen (eds.), pp. 166–193 | Article

Despite their formal resemblance, the English word ‘actually’ and the French word actuellement fulfil very different semantic-pragmatic functions in their present-day usage. In most cases they are ‘false friends’, as they overlap in meaning in a very limited number of contexts only. Since these… read more

Verroens, Filip, Bernard De Clerck et Dominique Willems 2010 I blackberried him twice and skyped him a happy Father’s day: A propos des (nouveaux) verbes de Communication. Une étude contrastive français – anglais basée sur corpus French Syntax in Contrast, Lahousse, Karen, Béatrice Lamiroy and Kristel Van Goethem (eds.), pp. 285–306 | Article

In this article we zoom in on the Verbs of Instrument of Communication (B. Levin 1993) in English and French and address a number of interesting issues. We examine the structural possibilities of the old and new Verbs of Instrument of Communication in comparison with one another and across the two… read more

Van de Walle, Jürgen, Dominique Willems and Klaas Willems 2006 Structuralism Handbook of Pragmatics: 2006 Installment, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1–36 | Article

Willems, Dominique 1995 Structuralism Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 506–513 | Article

Willems, Dominique 1992 A la recherche d’une structure perdue. Pour une hiérarchie sémantique des propriétés syntaxiques Études offertes à Karel van den EyndeÉtudes offertes à Karel van den Eynde: Volume II. Linguistique générale et linguistique descriptive, Delbecque, Nicole et Pierre Swiggers (dir.), pp. 243–257 | Article

Willems, Dominique 1978 À la recherche d’une grammaire des cas. Ses rapports avec la syntaxe et le léxique Valence, Semantic Case, and Grammatical Relations: Workshop studies prepared for the 12th International Congress of Linguists, Vienna, August 29th to September 3rd, 1977, Abraham, Werner (ed.), pp. 243 ff. | Article

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