Steve Disney
List of John Benjamins publications for which Steve Disney plays a role.
Article
2013 The reputed sense of be meant to: A case of gradual change by analogy Synchrony and Diachrony: A dynamic interface, Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Caterina Mauri and Piera Molinelli (eds.), pp. 105–124 | Article
This paper presents a case study of be meant to in a usage-based (Langacker 2008), construction grammar (Goldberg 1995) perspective. In contrast to other say/believe type verbs, the evidential ‘reputed’ sense of be meant to in (1) is not a passive of an active sense of mean. (1) He’s meant to be… read more