Peter Lauwers

Peter Lauwers

List of John Benjamins publications for which Peter Lauwers plays a role.

Titles

Lexical plurals and beyond

Edited by Peter Lauwers and Marie Lammert

Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 39:2 (2016) v, 201 pp.
Subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Generative linguistics | Lexicography | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization: Lessons from false friends

Edited by Peter Lauwers, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede and Stijn Verleyen

[Benjamins Current Topics, 44] 2012. v, 160 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization: Lessons from false friends

Edited by Peter Lauwers, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede and Stijn Verleyen

Special issue of Languages in Contrast 10:2 (2010) vi, 168 pp.
Subjects Comparative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

This paper offers a diachronic analysis of a pair of subject complement constructions (répondre présent/absent: litt. ‘to answer “present”/“absent”) originating from quotative expressions. It shows how they lexicalized into fixed expressions denoting a routinized “delocutive” (Benveniste) procedure… read more | Article
Lauwers, Peter. 2016. Les pluriels lexicaux dits « massifs » face au conditionneur universel. Lexical plurals and beyond, Lauwers, Peter and Marie Lammert (eds.), pp. 272–288
Cette contribution s’intéresse aux pluriels lexicaux en français. Elle montre que les pluriels lexicaux sont toujours dans la portée de dérivations ultérieures qui restaurent le statut [+ comptable], comme cela ressort notamment de la présence de déterminants indéfinis fortement individualisants.… read more | Article
Lauwers, Peter and Marie Lammert. 2016. Introduction: New perspectives on lexical plurals. Lexical plurals and beyond, Lauwers, Peter and Marie Lammert (eds.), pp. 207–216
Introduction
This article deals with French constructions such as sous l’emprise de (‘under the influence of’), which have been called locutions prépositives (complex prepositions) in the French linguistic tradition. Putting the issue of lexicalization aside, I establish regular complex form-meaning patterns (i. read more | Article
This contribution examines the issue of non-canonical usages of lexical items in French, which, as a result of their use in a construction typical of another word class than the one they are usually associated with, exhibit mixed word class properties. Starting from two case-studies: (i) a. le… read more | Article
Lauwers, Peter. 2012. Le prix est (de) 15 euros: On copular constructions expressing quantification in French. Constructions in French, Bouveret, Myriam and Dominique Legallois (eds.), pp. 233–256
The status of copular constructions expressing quantification, such as “le prix est (de) 15 euros) is examined with respect to prototypical specificational constructions (Le prix est quinze euros) and to predicational constructions involving quantification. It appears that the copular construction… read more | Article
Lauwers, Peter, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede and Stijn Verleyen. 2012. Introduction: How false friends give true hints about pragmatic markers. Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization: Lessons from false friends, Lauwers, Peter, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede and Stijn Verleyen (eds.), pp. 1–10
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This paper offers a corpus-based study of two evidential (semi-)copular verbs in French. It deals with their degree of synonymy and the extent to which they are grammaticalized as semi-copulas. First, the study of subcategorization and semantic restrictions of both the direct and indirect (marked)… read more | Article
Review
Lauwers, Peter, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede and Stijn Verleyen. 2010. How false friends give true hints about pragmatic markers. Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization: Lessons from false friends, Lauwers, Peter, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede and Stijn Verleyen (eds.), pp. 129–138
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Review
Summary Since the dawn of structuralism and generativism, linguists have not ceased to criticize a lack of scientific rigour in «traditional» grammar. Nowadays, the scientific character of syntax crucially depends on the use of syntactic tests. It appears, however, that this concept was not… read more | Article
Review article
Desmet, Piet, Peter Lauwers and Pierre Swiggers. 1999. Dialectology, Philology and Linguistics in the Romance Field: Methodological Developments and Interactions. Variation in (Sub)standard language, Belemans, Rob and Reinhild Vandekerckhove (eds.), pp. 177–203
Abstract. This contribution offers a historical survey of the views adopted by Romance scholars in methodological discussions tied up with dialectological work conducted between 1875 and 1925. Following an initial phase in which dialectology was strongly linked to folklore-based work and was mainly… read more | Article