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LIESBET HEYVAERT

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Articles in internationally refereed journals

13. (forthcoming) with H. Desmet. The meaning of the present participle. English Language and Linguistics.

12. (2011) Attenders or attendees? Deverbal -ee and -er variants in English. Journal of Pragmatics 43: 62-72.

11. (2008) with K. Blanpain and A. Laffut. Collex-Biz. A corpus-based 'lexical syllabus' for Business English. ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 155: 77-93.

10. (2008) On the constructional semantics of gerundive nominalizations. Folia Linguistica 42 (1): 39-82.

9. (2007) A pattern-based approach to deverbal nominalization. Or what phraseology can do for theoretical linguistics. Belgian Journal of English Language and Literatures. New Series 5: 147-159.

8. (2007) with K. Davidse. On the middle voice: An interpersonal analysis of the English middle. Linguistics 45 (1): 37-82.

7. (2006) A symbolic approach to deverbal -ee derivation. Cognitive Linguistics 17 (3): 337-364.

6. (2005) Novelty and unexpectedness: The use of corpora in language teaching. Review article on J. McH. Sinclair (ed.) (2004) How to use corpora in language teaching (Studies in corpus linguistics series 12), Amsterdam: Benjamins. Belgian Journal of English Language and Literatures. New Series 3: 183-196.

5. (2005) with H. Rogiers and N. Vermeylen. Pronominal determiners in gerundive nominalization: A 'case' study. English Studies 86 (1): 71-88.

4. (2003) Deverbal -er suffixation as the equivalent of the clausal Subject-Finite unit. WORD 54 (1): 53-82.

3. (2002/2003) with K. Davidse. Introduction to thematic issue "Functional linguistics and contrastive description". Languages in Contrast 4 (1): 1-12.

2. (2001) Nominalization as an 'interpersonally-driven' system. Functions of Language 8 (2): 287-330.

1. (1998) Deverbal -er nominalization in English and Dutch: a contrastive analysis. Languages in Contrast 1 (2): 211-243.

Articles in internationally distributed journals

1. (1997) Patientive -er nominals. Leuvense Bijdragen (Leuven Contributions in Linguistics and Philology) 86 (4): 433-456.

Articles in internationally refereed volumes

9. (forthcoming-2010) with H. Cuyckens. Finite and gerundive complementation from Middle English till now. Semantics, variation and change. In K. Allan, P. Koivisto-Alanko, H. Tissari and M.E. Winters (eds.) Historical linguistics in a cognitive framework: From the present to the past and back. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 132-159.

8. (2010) A cognitive-functional perspective on deverbal nominalization in English. Descriptive findings and theoretical ramifications. In Artemis Alexiadou and Monika Rathert (eds.) Nominalizations across languages and frameworks. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 51-81.

7. (2009) with P. Willemse and K. Davidse. English possessives as reference-point constructions and their function in the discourse. In W.B. McGregor (ed.) The expression of possession (The expression of cognitive categories, Volume 2). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 13-50

6. (2009) Compounds in Cognitive Linguistics. In Rochelle Lieber and Pavol Stekauer (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Compounding. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 233-254.

5. (2008) The periphrastic realization of participants in nominalizations: semantic and discourse constraints. In B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (ed.) Asymmetric Events (Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research). Amsterdam: Benjamins. 245-259.

4. (2004) Towards a typology of -ing nominalizations. In M. Achard and S. Kemmer (eds.) Language, culture and mind. Stanford: CSLI Publications. 493-506.

3. (2003) with K. Davidse. On the so-called 'middle' construction in English and Dutch. In S. Granger, J. Lerot and S. Petch-Tyson (eds.) Empirical approaches to contrastive linguistics and translation studies. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 57-73.

2. (2003) Nominalization as grammatical metaphor: on the need for a radically systemic and metafunctional approach. In L. Ravelli, A-M. Simon-Vandenbergen and M. Taverniers (eds.) Metaphor in systemic-functional perspectives. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 65-99.

1. (2000) Gerundive nominalization: from type specification to grounded instance. In A. Foolen and F. van der Leek (eds.) Constructions in Cognitive Linguistics. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 103-121.

Articles in internationally distributed volumes

3. (2010) Nominalization Research – A Bird's Eye View. In B.Cappelle and Naoaki Wada (eds.) Distinctions in English grammar, offered to Renaat Declerck. Kaitakusha: Tokyo. 208-236

2. (2009) From doubters, dabblers and givers to early risers and late bloomers. Towards a typology of ad hoc agentive -er derivation. In S.Slembrouck, M.Taverniers and M. Vanherreweghe (eds.) From will to well: Studies in Linguistics offered to Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen. Gent: Academia Press. 267-277.

1. (2008) with A. Laffut. Corpora in the teaching of English in Flemish secondary schools: current situation and future perspectives. Proceedings of the 8th Teaching and Language Corpora (TALC) Conference, Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administração, Lisbon, 4-6 July 2008.

Authored books

1. (2003) A cognitive-functional approach to nominalization in English (Cognitive Linguistics Research 26). Berlin: Mouton.

Dissertations

2. (2002) A cognitive-functional approach to nominalization in English. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven.

1. (1996) The impact of the transitivity and ergativity paradigms on -er nominalization. Unpublished MA Thesis. School of English and Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

Book reviews

3. (forthcoming - 2011) Review of Michal Szawerna (2007) A Corpus-Based Study of Nominalizations Predicated by English Deverbal Nouns in -tion (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang). ITL. Review of Applied Linguistics.

2. (2004) Review of Nina Nørgaard (2003) Systemic functional linguistics and literary analysis. A Hallidayan approach to Joyce. A Joycean approach to Halliday (Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark). Belgian Journal of English Language and Literatures New Series 2: 342-344.

1. (2003) Review of Hans-Jörg Schmid (2000) English abstract nouns as conceptual shells. From corpus to cognition (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter). Functions of Language 10 (2): 244-253.

Working papers

6. (2006) On the constructional semantics of gerundive nominalizations. Preprints of the Department of Linguistics 258. Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven.

5. (2006) with P. Willemse and K. Davidse. English possessives as reference-point constructions and their function in the discourse. Preprints of the Department of Linguistics 256. Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven.

4. (2005) A symbolic approach to deverbal -ee derivation. Preprints of the Department of Linguistics 234. Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven.

3. (2002) with K. Davidse. The propositional meaning of English middles. Preprints of the Department of Linguistics 194. Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven.

2. (2001) Nominalization as an interpersonally-driven system. Preprints of the Department of Linguistics 178. Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven.

1. (2001) Deverbal -er suffixation as morphological equivalent of the clausal Subject-Finite unit. Preprints of the Department of Linguistics 176. Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven.