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LIESBET HEYVAERT

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1. The lexicogrammar-semantics interface in English deverbal nominalizations:

• from a general-theoretical perspective
• from a descriptive perspective
• at different levels of nominalization: i.e. word level (e.g. -er, -ee, -ion, -ing), atemporal clausal head level (e.g. her opening that box), and clause level (e.g. that she opened that box)
• in relation to a wide range of issues: e.g. schematic category vs. prototype extension; inclusion of (periphrastic) participants; distinction between ‘full’/’non-event’/’result’ nominalization vs. ‘partial’/’clause-like’/’event’ nominalization;
• at NP level as well as with respect to discourse functioning

2. The lexicogrammar-semantics interface in English middle constructions:

• from a general-theoretical perspective
• from a descriptive perspective
• in terms of the different semantic subtypes of middle formation that exist

3. -ing forms in English: 'action' -ing nominalizations, verbal gerunds and participles

• from a diachronic perspective
• from a descriptive perspective: with a focus on describing resemblances and differences
• from a semantic perspective: what is the semantic import of -ing, and where does the construction in which it functions come in?