Isabeau De Smet

List of John Benjamins publications for which Isabeau De Smet plays a role.

Articles

De Smet, Isabeau and Freek Van de Velde 2019 Reassessing the evolution of West Germanic preterite inflectionDiachronica 36:2, pp. 139–180 | Article
This article takes a quantitative approach to the long-term dynamics of the preterite inflection in West Germanic, with a special focus on Dutch. In a first step, we replicate two often-cited studies on English and German (Lieberman et al. 2007 and Carroll et al. 2012, respectively) by looking at… read more
Pijpops, Dirk, Isabeau De Smet and Freek Van de Velde 2018 Constructional contamination in morphology and syntax: Four case studiesAsymmetries, Mismatches and Construction Grammar, Koutsoukos, Nikos, Kristel Van Goethem and Hendrik De Smet (eds.), pp. 269–305 | Article
In every-day language use, two or more structurally unrelated constructions may occasionally give rise to strings that look very similar on the surface. As a result of this superficial resemblance, a subset of instances of one of these constructions may deviate in the probabilistic preference… read more