Dominique Willems

List of John Benjamins publications for which Dominique Willems plays a role.

Yearbook

Van de Walle, Jürgen, Dominique Willems and Klaas Willems 2022 StructuralismHandbook 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 FrenchRomance 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 actuellementPragmatic 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 lexiconConstructions 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 studyFunctions 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 actuellementPragmatic 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 corpusFrench 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 StructuralismHandbook of Pragmatics: 2006 Installment, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1–36 | Article
Willems, Dominique 1995 StructuralismHandbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 506–513 | Article