Kristel Proost

List of John Benjamins publications for which Kristel Proost plays a role.

Title

Conceptual Structure in Lexical Items: The lexicalisation of communication concepts in English, German and Dutch

Kristel Proost

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 168] 2007. xii, 304 pp.

Articles

Proost, Kristel 2017 Chapter 1. The role of verbs and verb classes in identifying German search-constructions Constructing Families of Constructions: Analytical perspectives and theoretical challenges, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José, Alba Luzondo Oyón and Paula Pérez Sobrino (eds.), pp. 17–51 | Chapter

This chapter describes the German search-construction, an argument structure construction that is virtually unexplored. It focuses on the questions of how instances of the construction may be detected and how the relations between its variants may be described. Verbs relevant to the construction… read more

Proost, Kristel 2010 Antonymy relations: Typical and atypical cases from the domain of speech act verbs Lexical-Semantic Relations: Theoretical and practical perspectives, Storjohann, Petra (ed.), pp. 95–114 | Article

Antonymy is a relation of lexical opposition which is generally considered to involve (i) the presence of a scale along which a particular property may be graded, and hence both (ii) gradability of the corresponding lexical items and (iii) typical entailment relations. Like other types of lexical… read more