Caroline Gentens

List of John Benjamins publications for which Caroline Gentens plays a role.

Journal

Reconnecting Form and Meaning: In honour of Kristin Davidse

Edited by Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière, William B. McGregor and An Van linden

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 230] 2023. vii, 305 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Notes from the field on perspective-indexing constructions: Irregular shifts and perspective persistence

Edited by Stef Spronck, An Van linden, Caroline Gentens and María Sol Sansiñena

Special issue of Functions of Language 27:1 (2020) v, 112 pp.
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics

Irregular perspective shifts and perspective persistence: Discourse-oriented and theoretical approaches

Edited by Caroline Gentens, María Sol Sansiñena, Stef Spronck and An Van linden

Special issue of Pragmatics 29:2 (2019) v, 154 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns

Edited by Kristin Davidse, Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière and Lieven Vandelanotte

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 63] 2014. viii, 358 pp.
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Gentens, Caroline, Lobke Ghesquière, William B. McGregor and An Van linden 2023 Introduction. Reconnecting form and meaning: Lexis and grammar from cognitive-functional and usage-based perspectivesReconnecting Form and Meaning: In honour of Kristin Davidse, Gentens, Caroline, Lobke Ghesquière, William B. McGregor and An Van linden (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Chapter
Spronck, Stef, An Van linden, Caroline Gentens and María Sol Sansiñena 2020 Perspective persistence and irregular perspective shift: Mismatches in form-function pairingsNotes from the field on perspective-indexing constructions: Irregular shifts and perspective persistence, Spronck, Stef, An Van linden, Caroline Gentens and María Sol Sansiñena (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Article
Gentens, Caroline, María Sol Sansiñena, Stef Spronck and An Van linden 2019 Irregular perspective shifts and perspective persistence, discourse-oriented and theoretical approachesIrregular perspective shifts and perspective persistence: Discourse-oriented and theoretical approaches, Gentens, Caroline, María Sol Sansiñena, Stef Spronck and An Van linden (eds.), pp. 155–169 | Introduction
In this introduction, we set out the central themes of the special issue. It concentrates on imperfect function-form mappings, and discusses several cases in which specific perspectival meanings are not fully predictable on the basis of a perspectivizing grammatical construction alone. We… read more
In this paper we report on a historical corpus study of English multiple, an adjective which underwent a process of grammaticalization starting from lexical uses with the meaning ‘composite’, e.g. HR 3617 is a multiple star, to grammaticalized uses as individualizer, paraphrasable as ‘different’,… read more
Gentens, Caroline, Ditte Kimps, Kristin Davidse, Gilles Jacobs, An Van linden and Lieselotte Brems 2016 Mirativity and rhetorical structure: The development and prosody of disjunct and anaphoric adverbials with ‘no’ wonderOutside the Clause: Form and function of extra-clausal constituents, Kaltenböck, Gunther, Evelien Keizer and Arne Lohmann (eds.), pp. 125–156 | Article
This paper studies from a synchronic-diachronic perspective the formal and semantic-discursive properties of adverbial expressions with a negative quantifier + wonder (henceforth ‘no’ wonder). They are used as mirative qualifiers which assess a proposition as ‘not surprising’, typically motivated… read more
Regret has traditionally been regarded as a “true factive” predicate that always presupposes the truth of its complement and cannot occur in parenthetical clauses (Hooper 1975). In the light of earlier observations that I regret and I regret to say have acquired non-factive uses (Heyvaert and… read more
Davidse, Kristin, Lieven Vandelanotte, Caroline Gentens and Lobke Ghesquière 2014 Interrogating corpora to describe grammatical patternsCorpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns, Davidse, Kristin, Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière and Lieven Vandelanotte (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Article