Modality and Diachronic Construction Grammar
Edited by Martin Hilpert, Bert Cappelle and Ilse Depraetere
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 32] 2021. v, 251 pp.
Ilse Depraetere
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ilse Depraetere plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Modal Meaning in Construction Grammar
Edited by Bert Cappelle and Ilse Depraetere
Special issue of Constructions and Frames 8:1 (2016) vi, 129 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Tense and Aspect: The contextual processing of semantic indeterminacy
Edited by Svetlana Vogeleer, Walter De Mulder and Ilse Depraetere
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 12] 1998. x, 226 pp.
Subjects Semantics
Articles
2021 Modality in Diachronic Construction Grammar: Long-standing questions, new perspectives Modality and Diachronic Construction Grammar, Hilpert, Martin, Bert Cappelle and Ilse Depraetere (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Chapter
2019 The necessity modals have to, must, need to, and should: Using n-grams to help identify common and distinct semantic and pragmatic aspects On the Role of Pragmatics in Construction Grammar, Finkbeiner, Rita (ed.), pp. 220–243 | Article
When an ambiguous lexical item appears within a familiar string of words, it can instantly receive an appropriate interpretation from this context, thus being saturated by it. Such a context may also short-circuit illocutionary and other pragmatic aspects of interpretation. We here extract from… read more
2016 Modal meaning in Construction Grammar Modal Meaning in Construction Grammar, Cappelle, Bert and Ilse Depraetere (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Article
2016 Short-circuited interpretations of modal verb constructions: Some evidence from The Simpsons Modal Meaning in Construction Grammar, Cappelle, Bert and Ilse Depraetere (eds.), pp. 7–39 | Article
In this paper we aim to show how distinct semantic and pragmatic layers of modal interpretation can be fruitfully integrated within a constructionist approach. We discuss in detail a number of cases from the Simpsons where a modal verb, as part of a longer expression, has a short-circuited… read more
2016 Response to Hilpert Modal Meaning in Construction Grammar, Cappelle, Bert and Ilse Depraetere (eds.), pp. 86–96 | Article
1998 Review of Greenbaum (1996): The Oxford English Grammar Functions of Language 5:2, pp. 257–264 | Review
1998 Introduction Tense and Aspect: The contextual processing of semantic indeterminacy, Vogeleer, Svetlana, Walter De Mulder and Ilse Depraetere (eds.), pp. v–ix | Article
1996 On the likelihood of past tense situations still being the case at the time of speaking ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 113/114, pp. 335–348 | Article
Several linguists have pointed out that the past tense has the implicature that the situation it refers to is no longer the case at the moment of speaking (cf. John lived in London in 1985, but he no longer does). In this article, it is argued that in certain types of sentences the implicature… read more
