Timothy Colleman

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Ditransitives in Germanic Languages: Synchronic and diachronic aspects

Edited by Eva Zehentner, Melanie Röthlisberger and Timothy Colleman

[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 7] 2023. vi, 446 pp.
Subjects Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

The Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research

Edited by Timothy Colleman, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 34] 2020. vii, 382 pp.
Subjects Theoretical linguistics
Colleman, Timothy and Marie Steffens 2023 Looking back and looking forward: The Belgian Journal of Linguistics (1986–2023)Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 37 (2023): Tangible Traces of Language Ideologies, Baiwir, Esther, Janine Berns and Marie Steffens (eds.), pp. 1–5 | Editorial
Zehentner, Eva, Melanie Röthlisberger and Timothy Colleman 2023 Ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages: New avenues and new challengesDitransitives in Germanic Languages: Synchronic and diachronic aspects, Zehentner, Eva, Melanie Röthlisberger and Timothy Colleman (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter
Colleman, Timothy, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena 2020 Introduction: The wealth and breadth of construction-based researchThe Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research, Colleman, Timothy, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Introduction
This paper brings a contact linguistic perspective to the investigation of variation and change in the semantic structures of schematic argument structure constructions, i.e. diachronic constructional semasiology. The empirical focus is on three clusters of ongoing change in the lexical and… read more
Bernolet, Sarah and Timothy Colleman 2016 Sense-based and lexeme-based alternation biases in the Dutch dative alternationCorpus-based Approaches to Construction Grammar, Yoon, Jiyoung and Stefan Th. Gries (eds.), pp. 165–198 | Article
In semantic studies of argument structure alternations as well as in psycholinguistic studies on syntactic priming, lexical alternation biases are typically measured at the level of the verb lexeme. This study explores the hypothesis that the proper locus of subcategorization probabilities is the… read more
While recent years have seen an increased interest for the potential effects of language contact on the formal and/or semantic properties of constructions, existing case studies of (potentially) contact-induced change in individual constructions (e.g. Pietsch 2010; Höder 2012, 2014; Van de Velde… read more
This paper explores diachronic shifts in the literal and intensifying uses of dood ‘dead’ in the Dutch fake reflexive resultative construction. Without sufficient context, a clause like Hij werkte zich dood (lit. ‘He worked himself dead’) is ambiguous in that it is unclear whether dood expresses… read more
Colleman, Timothy 2015 Constructionalization and post-constructionalization: The constructional semantics of the Dutch krijgen-passive from a diachronic perspectiveDiachronic Construction Grammar, Barðdal, Jóhanna, Elena Smirnova, Lotte Sommerer and Spike Gildea (eds.), pp. 213–256 | Article
The grammatical literature on Dutch generally distinguishes two “passive” alternatives to the active double object construction, one of which, the so-called krijgen-passive is a fairly recent addition to the grammar, the earliest reported examples dating from around 1900. The present chapter… read more
Colleman, Timothy and Dirk Noël 2014 Tracing the history of deontic NCI patterns in Dutch: A case of polysemy copyingDiachronic Corpus Pragmatics, Taavitsainen, Irma, Andreas H. Jucker and Jukka Tuominen (eds.), pp. 213–236 | Article
While the so-called “nominative-and-infinitive” (NCI) is no longer a productive construction in Dutch, the grammar of Present-day Dutch still contains a small set of lexically substantive NCI patterns, most notably geacht worden te and verondersteld worden te. Like their English formal equivalent… read more
Delorge, Martine, Koen Plevoets and Timothy Colleman 2014 Competing ‘transfer’ constructions in Dutch: The case of ont-verbsCorpus Methods for Semantics: Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy, Glynn, Dylan and Justyna A. Robinson (eds.), pp. 39–60 | Article
This paper zooms in on the semantic relations between the constructions of “possessional transfer” (i.e. constructions used to encode events of possessional transfer) in Dutch by zooming in on a specific morphological class of dispossession verbs, viz. verbs with the prefix ont- ‘away’, such as… read more
Colleman, Timothy and Dirk Noël 2012 The Dutch evidential NCI: A case of constructional attritionJournal of Historical Pragmatics 13:1, pp. 1–28 | Article
Present-day Dutch has two entrenched “grammatical” hearsay evidentials: a construction with zou (originally the past tense form of the verb zullen, cognate with German sollen) and a construction with schijnen (literally, ‘seem’). The closest English equivalent of both constructions is the… read more
Noël, Dirk and Timothy Colleman 2012 Believe-type raising-to-object and raising-to-subject verbs in English and Dutch: A contrastive investigation in diachronic construction grammarCorpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, Marzo, Stefania, Kris Heylen and Gert de Sutter (eds.), pp. 7–32 | Article
The so-called ‘raising-to-subject’ pattern that verbs of the type believe can occur in is usually treated as the passive alternative for the so-called ‘raising-to-object’ pattern. In addition to broadening the empirical basis for the opposite claim that the English and Dutch raising-to-subject (or… 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
Noël, Dirk and Timothy Colleman 2011 The nominative and infinitive in English and Dutch: An exercise in contrastive diachronic construction grammarContrastive Pragmatics, Aijmer, Karin (ed.), pp. 143–180 | Article
The nominative and infinitive (or NCI) is a syntactic pattern that has so far not been given its due in the linguistics of languages that possess structures that could go by that name. In English and Dutch these were probably introduced (or at the very least revived) into the grammar as loans from… read more
English, German, French and Dutch all exhibit a ditransitive construction in which the verb is combined with a subject and two NP objects (either unmarked or with overt dative and/or accusative case), which typically encode the agent, theme and recipient of a ‘caused reception‘ event. In… read more
Noël, Dirk and Timothy Colleman 2010 Believe-type raising-to-object and raising-to-subject verbs in English and Dutch: A contrastive investigation in diachronic construction grammarCorpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, Marzo, Stefania, Kris Heylen and Gert de Sutter (eds.), pp. 157–182 | Article
The so-called ‘raising-to-subject’ pattern that verbs of the type believe can occur in is usually treated as the passive alternative for the so-called ‘raising-to-object’ pattern. In addition to broadening the empirical basis for the opposite claim that the English and Dutch raising-to-subject (or… read more
Just like its English counterpart (cf. Goldberg 1995), the Dutch double object construction is a prime example of a highly polysemous argument structure construction, with a basic ‘X causes Y to receive Z’ sense and several extended meanings which depart from the prototype in various respects and… read more
Noël, Dirk and Timothy Colleman 2009 The nominative and infinitive in English and Dutch: An exercise in contrastive diachronic construction grammarContrastive Pragmatics, Aijmer, Karin (ed.), pp. 144–181 | Article
The nominative and infinitive (or NCI) is a syntactic pattern that has so far not been given its due in the linguistics of languages that possess structures that could go by that name. In English and Dutch these were probably introduced (or at the very least revived) into the grammar as loans from… read more
Colleman, Timothy and Bernard De Clerck 2008 Accounting for ditransitive constructions with envy and forgiveFunctions of Language 15:2, pp. 187–215 | Article
This paper presents an in-depth analysis of the English verbs envy and forgive in the ditransitive argument structure pattern [Sbj V Obj Obj]. Since the ditransitive construction is often associated with a basic ‘transfer of possession’ meaning in existing analyses of its constructional semantics,… read more