Grammar, usage and discourse: Functional studies offered to Kristin Davidse
Edited by Lieven Vandelanotte, Wout Van Praet and Lieselotte Brems
Special issue of English Text Construction 10:2 (2017) v, 159 pp.
Wout Van Praet
List of John Benjamins publications for which Wout Van Praet plays a role.
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Subjects Applied linguistics | English linguistics | English literature & literary studies | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Articles
2021 Re-evaluating the importance of discourse-embedding for specificational and predicative clauses Pragmatics 31:4, pp. 560–588 | Article
This paper studies the discourse-embedding of specificational clauses, in contrast with predicative ones. Specificational clauses – which express a variable – value relation – are assumed to have a ‘fixed’ information structure. This follows from the widespread definition of information… read more
2019 Aspect and modality in English predicative and specificational copular clauses English Text Construction 12:2, pp. 196–234 | Article
This paper investigates the use of aspect and modality in English predicative and specificational copulars. To examine attractions of aspectual and modal meanings to the VPs in the copular constructions, I carry out collostructional analyses (Stefanowitsch & Gries 2003). These attractions are… read more
