Publications and communications of Lieselotte Brems

Publications

Books

Direction and/or edition of collective works (including proceedings of scientific meetings, special issues of journals)

Davidse, K., Breban, T., Brems, L., & Mortelmans, T. (Eds.). (2012). Grammaticalization and language change: origins, criteria and outcomes. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing.

Articles and book chapters

Articles in journals with peer reviewing

Davidse, K., Van Linden, A., & Brems, L. (April 2022). A semiotic approach to grammaticalization: modelling representational and interpersonal modality expressed by verbonominal patterns. Language Sciences, 91, 101473. doi:10.1016/j.langsci.2022.101473

Van Linden, A., & Brems, L. (2022). ‘Wonder’ nouns and the development of a mirative constructional network: An exercise in semiotic diachronic construction grammar. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 70 (3), 263-299. doi:10.1515/zaa-2022-2067

Davidse, K., Brems, L., & Smith, A. (2017). Charting ongoing change: the emergent complex subordinators the moment (that) and for fear (that). Studies in Variation: Contacts and Change in English.

De Clerck, B., & Brems, L. (2015). Size nouns matter: a closer look at mass(es) of and extended uses of size nouns. Language Sciences. doi:10.1016/j.langsci.2015.05.007

Brems, L. (2012). The establishment of quantifier constructions for size nouns: a diachronic case study of heap(s) and lot(s). Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 2 (13), 202-231. doi:10.1075/jhp.13.2.02bre

Brems, L., Ghesquière, L., & Van de Velde, F. (2012). Introduction to special issue 'Intersections of Intersubjectivity'. English Text Construction, 5 (1), 1-6. doi:10.1075/etc.5.1.01int

Ghesquière, L., Brems, L., & Van de velde, F. (2012). Intersubjectivity and intersubjectification: Typology and operationalization. English Text Construction, 5 (1), 128-152. doi:10.1075/etc.5.1.07ghe

Davidse, K., Brems, L., & De Smedt. (2008). Type noun uses in the English NP : A case of right to left layering. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 13 (2), 139-168. doi:10.1075/ijcl.13.2.02dav

Brems, L. (2007). The grammaticalization of small size nouns : reconsidering frequency and analogy. Journal of English Linguistics, 35 (4), 293-324. doi:10.1177/0075424207307597

Brems, L. (2003). Measure Noun constructions : an instance of semantically-driven grammaticalization. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 8 (2), 283-312. doi:10.1075/ijcl.8.2.05bre

Brems, L., & Davidse, K. (2003). Absolute and relative quantification : beyond mutually exclusive word classes. Belgian Journal of English Language and Literatures. New Series, 1, 49-60.

Book chapters

Van linden, A., & Brems, L. (2020). Present-day English constructions with chance(s) in Talmy’s greater modal system and beyond. In R. Schulze & P. Hohaus (Ed.), Re-assessing Modalising Expressions: Categories, Co-text, and Context (pp. 195–222). Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi:10.1075/slcs.216.08van

Brems, L., Ghesquière, L., & Vanderbauwhede, G. (2020). A rather interesting topic: A contrastive study of English rather, Dutch eerder and French plutôt. In Translating and Comparing Languages: Corpus-based Insights Selected Proceedings of the Fifth Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies Conference (pp. 215-236). Presses universitaires de Louvain.

Brems, L. (2020). Intersubjectivity and intersubjectification. In J. Taylor & X. Wen, The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Routledge.

Gentens, C., Kimps, D., Davidse, K., Jakobs, G., Van linden, A., & Brems, L. (2016). Mirativity and rhetorical structure: The development and prosody of disjunct and anaphoric adverbials with ‘no’ wonder. In Kaltenböck & Keizer, Outside the Clause (pp. 123–156). John Benjamins Publishing. doi:10.1075/slcs.178.05gen

Davidse, K., Brems, L., Willemse, P., Kiermeer, J., Thoelen, E., & Dooyen, E. (2013). A comparative study of the grammaticalized uses of English sort of and French genre de in teenage forum data. In E. Miola (Ed.), Proceedings of the workshop languages go web. languages go web.

Breban, T., Vanderbiesen, Brems, L., Davidse, K., & Mortelmans, T. (2012). Introduction: New reflections on the sources, outcomes, defining features and motivations of grammaticalization. In K. Davidse, L. Brems, T. Breban, ... T. Mortelmans (Eds.), Grammaticalization and Language Change. New reflections. John Benjamins.

Breban, T., Vanderbiesen, J., Davidse, K., Brems, L., & Mortelmans, T. (2012). New reflections on the sources, outcomes, defining features and motivations of grammaticalization. In T. Breban, L. Brems, K. Davidse, ... T. Mortelmans (Eds.), Grammaticalization and language change: new reflections. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Benjamins.

Brems, L., & Olivier, N. (2007). Pattern-learning and pattern-description : An integrated approach to proficiency and research for students of English. In Corpora in the foreign language classroom. Selected papers from the Sixth International Conference on Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC). Rodopi.

Book reviews

Brems, L. (2015). Review of Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg (eds), Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics: Studies in honour of Stig Johansson (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 54). English Text Construction, 8 (2), 265-268.

Brems, L. (2015). Martin Hilpert, Construction Grammar and its Application to English. English Text Construction, 8 (1), 132-136.

Brems, L. (2014). Review: Hilde Hasselgård, Jarle Ebeling and Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (eds.). Corpus perspectives on patterns of lexis. ICAME Journal.

Brems, L. (October 2013). Review Contrastive Pragmatics. 2011. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. ISBN 978 90 272 2260 2. 182 pp. English Text Construction, 2 (6), 301-305.

Others

Van Linden, A., Vandelanotte, L., & Brems, L. (July 2023). Revisiting complement and parenthetical constructions: theory and description. Language Sciences, 98, 101545. doi:10.1016/j.langsci.2023.101545

Unpublished conferences and communications

Communications to congresses and symposiums

Brems, L., & Van Linden, A. (20 August 2021). Wonder nouns and the emergence of a mirative constructional network [Paper presentation]. 11th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG11), Antwerp, Belgium.

Van linden, A., & Brems, L. (August 2019). The diachrony of the constructional networks of ‘wonder’ nouns [Paper presentation]. 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE52), Leipzig, Germany.

Brems, L., & Van linden, A. (July 2019). Miracles and mirativity: Lexical versus grammatical uses of wonder, marvel, and surprise [Paper presentation]. Workshop on the English Noun Phrase (ENP2019), Vienna, Austria.

Van linden, A., Brems, L., & Davidse, K. (09 May 2019). Grammatical uses of 'no' + noun and the hierarchy of qualifications of SoAs [Paper presentation]. Workshop on The syntagmatic properties of complementation patterns: Accommodating lexical and grammatical uses of CTP-clauses, Liège, Belgium.

Brems, L., & Van linden, A. (30 November 2018). No way and no chance as emphatic negative response items [Paper presentation]. BAAHE 2018.

Van linden, A., & Brems, L. (25 May 2018). From happenstance to modality and beyond: verbo-nominal constructions with chance(s [Paper presentation]. JOURNÉE LINGUISTIQUE DU Cercle Belge de Linguistique, Liège, Belgium.

Van linden, A., & Brems, L. (2018). It was chance’s chance to become polyfunctional in the modal domain [Paper presentation]. International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Van linden, A., & Brems, L. (05 May 2017). Chances are verbo-nominal constructions with chance(s) are more polyfunctional than modal auxiliaries [Paper presentation]. La journée linguistique du Cercle belge de Linguistique.

Van linden, A., & Brems, L. (2017). Talmy’s “greater modal system”: fitting in verbo-nominal constructions with chance(s) [Paper presentation]. Seventh International Conference of the French Association for Cognitive Linguistics (AFLiCo 7), Belgium.

Van linden, A., & Brems, L. (02 December 2016). Possible worlds: verbo-nominal patterns with chance [Paper presentation]. BAAHE conference: World / Text / Context.

Davidse, K., Van linden, A., & Brems, L. (October 2014). Negative polarity as a trigger for the development of modal meaning [Paper presentation]. International Conference on Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages 2014.

Davidse, K., Brems, L., Lesage, J., & Van linden, A. (July 2014). Negation, grammaticalization and subjectification: the development of polar, modal and mirative no way-constructions [Paper presentation]. ICEHL, Leuven, Belgium. doi:10.13140/2.1.1099.2961

Gentens, C., Brems, L., Davidse, K., & Van linden, A. (July 2014). Formal and semantic-discursive properties of mirative exprecctions (it's) no wonder: a synchronic-diachronic approach [Paper presentation]. Outside the Clause Workshop, Vienne, Switzerland.

Van linden, A., Davidse, K., & Brems, L. (2014). Negative polarity as a trigger for the development of modal meaning [Paper presentation]. International Conference on Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages.

Brems, L., Davidse, K., & Matthijs, L. (July 2012). The development of mirative no wonder-constructions [Paper presentation]. New Reflections on Grammaticalization 5, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Ghesquière, L., Brems, L., & Van de Velde, F. (July 2012). Intersubjectivity and intersubjectification: Typology and operationalization [Paper presentation]. New Reflections on Grammaticalization 5, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Brems, L., davidse, K., & Van linden, A. (July 2011). have/be no need: the interaction between negation and modality in verbonominal pathways of changes [Paper presentation]. ICHL 20 (International conference on historical linguistics), Osaka, Japan.

Conferences in universities or research centers

Van Linden, A., Brems, L., Giomi, R., Hendrikx, I., Louagie, D., Perrez, J., & Pijpops, D. (23 November 2023). SPACEGRAM: Grammar from Space – How spatial elements become applicatives [Paper presentation]. LingTalk, Centre for Linguistics – Lilith, Liège, Belgium.