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LIESELOTTE BREMS

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Articles in internationally refereed journals

6. (2010) with K. Davidse. Complex subordinators derived from noun complement clauses. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 42 (2): 101-116.

5. (2010) Size noun constructions as collocationally constrained constructions: lexical and grammaticalized uses. English Language and Linguistics 14 (1): 83-109

4. (2010) with K. Davidse. The grammaticalization of nominal type noun constructions with kind/sort of: chronology and paths of change. English Studies 91: 180-202.

3. (2008) with K. Davidse and L. De Smedt. Type noun uses in the English NP: A case of right to left layering. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 13 (2): 139-168.

2. (2007) The grammaticalization of Small Size Nouns: Reconsidering frequency and analogy. Journal of English Linguistics 35 (4): 293-324.

1. (2003) Measure Noun constructions: an instance of semantically-driven grammaticalization. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 8 (2) : 283-312.

Articles in internationally distributed journals

1. (2003) with K. Davidse. Absolute and relative quantification: Beyond mutually exclusive word classes. Belgian Journal of English Language and Literatures. New Series 1: 49-60.

Articles in internationally refereed volumes

4. (forthcoming) with S. Hoffmann. Grammaticalization. In Eve Sweetser & Alexander Bergs, eds. The History of English Historical Linguistics. Mouton de Gruyter.

3. (2009) with K. Davidse. The reanalysis and grammaticalization of nominal constructions with kind/sort of: Chronology and paths of change. In Pascual Cantos Gómez & Aquilino Sánchez Pérez, eds. A Survey on Corpus-based research. Asociación Española de Lingüística de Corpus. 414-430.

2. (2007) with L. De Smedt & K. Davidse. NP-internal functions and extended uses of the 'type' nouns kind, sort, and type: Towards a comprehensive, corpus-based description. In R. Facchinetti et al. (eds) Corpus linguistics 25 years on. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 227-257.

1. (2004) Measure Noun constructions: degrees of delexicalization and grammaticalization. In K. Aijmer and B. Altenberg (eds.) Advances in corpus linguistics: Papers from the 23rd International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 23). Amsterdam: Rodopi. 249-265.

Articles in internationally distributed volumes

1. (2007) with N. Olivier, K. Davidse, D. Speelman and H. Cuyckens. Pattern-learning and pattern-description: An integrated approach to proficiency and research for students of English. In E. Hidalgo , L. Quereda and J. Santana (eds.) Corpora in the foreign language classroom. Selected papers from the Sixth International Conference on Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC). Amsterdam: Rodopi. 221-236.

Articles in internationally refereed proceedings

1. (2009) with K. Davidse. The reanalysis and grammaticalization of nominal constructions with kind/sort of: Chronology and paths of change. In Pascual Cantos Gómez & Aquilino Sánchez Pérez, eds. A Survey on Corpus-based research. Asociación Española de Lingüística de Corpus. 414-430. IBSN: 789-84-692-2198-3.

Authored books

1. (forthcoming) Layering of size and type noun constructions in English. Topics in English Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Edited books/journals

4. (forthcoming) with Tine Breban, Kristin Davidse & Tanja Mortelmans. Grammaticalization and language change: origins, criteria and outcomes. Studies in Language Companion Series (series editors: Werner Abraham & Elly van Gelderen)

3. (forthcoming) Co-editor of the special issue Intersections of intersubjectivity, with Freek Van de Velde & Lobke Ghesquière. English Text Construction.

2. (forthcoming) with Bernard De Clerck & Katrien Verveckken. Binominal constructions. Special issue of Language Sciences

1. (forthcoming) with T. Breban, K. Davidse & T. Mortelmans. Proceedings of NRG 4, Studies in Language Companion series (editors Werner Abraham and Elly Van Gelderen)

Dissertations

2. (2007) The synchronic layering of size noun and type noun constructions in English. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven.

1. (2001) From head to quantifier: Grammaticalization and delexicalization in Measure Noun constructions. Unpublished MA thesis, University of Leuven. Awarded the 2001 Prof. L.K. Engels award for best MA thesis at the University of Leuven.

Working papers

2. (2006) The grammaticalization of small size nouns: Reconsidering frequency and analogy. Preprints of the Department of Linguistics 254. Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven.

1. (2002) Measure Noun constructions: an instance of semantically-driven grammaticalization. Preprints of the Department of Linguistics 193. Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven.