Liesbeth Mortier
List of John Benjamins publications for which Liesbeth Mortier plays a role.
Articles
2009 Adversative discourse markers in contrast: The need for a combined corpus approach International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 14:3, pp. 338–366 | Article
This paper deals with the semantics of two discourse markers, viz. French en fait (“in fact”) and Dutch eigenlijk (“actually”), commonly associated with the expression of “opposition” and “reformulation”. A special focus lies on methodological issues in the description of such markers, since their… read more
2008 An analysis of progressive aspect in French and Dutch in terms of Variation and Specialization Languages in Contrast 8:1, pp. 1–20 | Article
This paper tackles the concepts of ‘Variation’ and ‘Specialization’, frequently used in grammaticalization theory, within the context of progressive aspectual periphrases and from a comparative perspective French-Dutch. Drawing on historical and contemporary data, it is shown that these… read more
2005 Les périphrases aspectuelles ‘progressives’ en français et en néerlandais: présentation et voies de grammaticalisation Les Périphrases Verbales, Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot, Hava et Nicole Le Querler (dir.), pp. 67–82 | Article