Filip Verroens

• PhD Linguistics
• Lecturer at Ghent University

Verroens, F. (2011). La construction inchoative se mettre à: syntaxe, sémantique et grammaticalisation. Gent: Universiteit Gent. Doctoral dissertation.

In this article we zoom in on the Verbs of Instrument of Communication (B. Levin 1993) in English and French and address a number of interesting issues. We examine the structural possibilities of the old and new Verbs of Instrument of Communication in comparison with one another and across the two languages. First, despite the creative uses of thes...

In this paper, the structural possibilities of well-established ‘verbs of instruments of communication’ (Levin 1993) such as telephone , fax and telegraph are compared with the syntactic possibilities of recent newcomers to the field such as skype and blackberry . The analysis, which is based on extensive web-based material shows that the structura...

The present study constitutes a first contribution to the understanding of the French pronoun que dalle (‘nothing’ ) . First, we looked at its syntactic flexibility, its semantic strength in conveying zero quantification, and its pragmatic role in informal language. Then we compared que dalle with its near synonym rien and analysed its development....

This article examines the semantic value of the infinitive in the ingressive constructions se mettre à (SMA) and commencer à (COMA) using a distinctive collexeme analysis. We find that the collexemes significant for the construction SMA are fairly homogeneous across the different corpora and can be grouped into the general category of expressive co...

L’objectif de cette étude est de dégager d’éventuelles différences entre l’acquisition de la morphologie verbale à l’écrit en français langue étrangère d’une part et celle à l’oral d’autre part. Nous nous sommes plus spécifiquement intéressés aux trajets que parcourent des apprenants néerlandophones dans les deux types de production, avec une atten...

This article compares the usage of commencer à ‘to begin’+Vinf. and se mettre à ‘to start’ + Vinf. in modern French. Using a corpus sample of 2000 observations, we examined the effect of Adverbial complementation, of Event type (aspect), and of Tense. Based on a mixed-effects logistic regression analysis, we found evidence for Event type, where se...

Les structures pronominales, de par leur polyvalence syntaxique et sémantique, sont particulièrement propices à des phénomènes de réanalyse, voire de grammaticalisation. Notre contribution cherche à décrire les conditions syntaxiques, lexico-sémantiques et cognitives favorables à la réanalyse des constructions pronominales à partir de deux cas type...

Inchoativity in French Linguistics This article deals with the notion of inchoativity in modern French which seems to be problematic in more than one way. A first, descriptive, part reviews the core meanings of the concept and their corresponding linguistic realizations. It is divided into two main approaches: one semantic-syntactic and the other h...

The manuscript is a review of the book “Sophie Prévost & Benjamin Fagard (éds.) (2017) : Le français en diachronie. Dépendances syntaxiques, morphosyntaxe verbale, grammaticalisation, Berlin, Peter Lang AG, 412 p.”

Verroens, F. (2011). La construction inchoative se mettre à: syntaxe, sémantique et grammaticalisation. Gent: Universiteit Gent. Doctoral dissertation.

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Un bon nombre de linguistes se sont intéressés à la place importante que prennent les verbes aspectuels dans l’interface syntaxo-sémantique. Nous avons conçu le projet de nous engager sur la même piste1. Nos données, utiles pour le volet syntactico-distributionnel, proviennent de corpus oraux, réunis dans le projet ELICOP2, de même que de corpus éc...