Marleen Van Peteghem | John Benjamins

Peteghem, Marleen Van 2016 Verbs of pain and accusative subjects in Romanian Atypical predicate-argument relations, Ruchot, Thierry and Pascale Van Praet (eds.), pp. 3–26 | Article

Verbs of pain in Romanian such as durea ‘ache’, ustura ‘burn’, and furnica ‘itch’ assign the accusative to their experiencer arguments, unlike other Romance languages, where the experiencer is dative-marked. The use of the accusative raises interesting problems in that it gives rise to a mismatch… read more

Peteghem, Marleen Van 2016 D’une complexité redoutable: Les attributs prépositionnels en de À la recherche de la prédication: Autour des syntagmes prépositionnels, Marque-Pucheu, Christiane, Fryni Kakoyianni-Doa, Peter A. Machonis et Harald Ulland (dir.), pp. 3–26 | Article

Cet article examine dans quelle mesure la préposition de contenue dans les attributs prépositionnels en de peut être considérée comme une marque génitivale. Le génitif est identifié à l’aide d’arguments internes au français d’une part et d’une comparaison avec le russe d’autre part. L’analyse… read more

Peteghem, Marleen Van and Katia Paykin 2013 The Russian genitive within the NP and the VP The Genitive, Carlier, Anne and Jean-Christophe Verstraete (eds.), pp. 55–104 | Article

This paper deals with the genitive case in Russian as present within the NP and the VP. We argue that although semantic factors sometimes condition genitive marking, the Russian genitive is not sensitive to the thematic properties of the head and is therefore closer to the structural cases,… read more

Tayalati, Fayssal et Marleen Van Peteghem 2009 Pour un traitement unitaire de l’assignation du datif en français Lingvisticæ Investigationes 32:1, pp. 99–123 | Article

The aim of this paper is to propose a unified account of dative assignment for both verbs and adjectives in French. We will show that both types of predicates assign dative case to their second internal argument, provided that this argument is situated in a higher position in the thematic hierarchy… read more

Tovena, Lucia M. et Marleen Van Peteghem 2002 Différent vs autre et l’opposition réciproque vs comparatif Lingvisticæ Investigationes 25:1, pp. 149–170 | Article

Summary This paper tests on French Beck’s (2000) analysis of plural and quantified NP dependent readings of different in English. According to her, different works as a relational adjective when it depends on a plural NP, and as a comparison operator when it depends on a universally quantified NP.… read more