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Petré Peter

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Main Referenced Co-authors
Cuyckens, Hubert (7)
Davidse, Kristin (1)
Main Referenced Keywords
Old English (9); Middle English (8); Construction grammar (4); weorðan (4); Copulas (3);
Main Referenced Unit & Research Centers
Functional Linguistics Leuven (FLL) (6)
Functional Linguistics Leuven (4)
FEST (1)
FLL (1)
Functional Linguistic Leuven (University of Leuven) (1)
Main Referenced Disciplines
Languages & linguistics (28)

Publications (total 28)

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Petré, P. (2005). On the variables determining the life span of English prefix constructions. A case study of the two prefixes be- and to- (NHG zer-) [Master’s dissertation, K.U.Leuven]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/80029 https://hdl.handle.net/2268/80029

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19 citations (Scopus®)

Petré, P. (January 2012). General productivity: How become waxed and wax became a copula. Cognitive Linguistics, 23 (1), 28-65. doi:10.1515/cog-2012-0002 https://hdl.handle.net/2268/103234

Petré, P., & Davidse, K. (2012). On ways of being on the way: from complex preposition to aspect marker. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 17 (2). doi:10.1075/ijcl.17.2.04pet
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Petré, P. (January 2012). General productivity: How become waxed and wax became a copula. Cognitive Linguistics, 23 (1), 28-65. doi:10.1515/cog-2012-0002
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Petré, P. (2011). Is it to be or not to be: a constructional account of the merger of two Old English copulas in Middle English [Paper presentation]. 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2011), Logroño, Spain.

Petré, P. (01 October 2010). The functions of weorðan and its loss in the past tense in Old and Middle English. English Language and Linguistics, 14 (3), 457-484. doi:10.1017/S1360674310000158
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Petré, P. (2010). On the interaction between constructional & lexical change: Copular, Passive and related Constructions in Old and Middle English [Doctoral thesis, University of Leuven]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/78318

Petré, P. (04 September 2010). Multiple sources in the copularization of become [Paper presentation]. SLE 43RD ANNUAL MEETING, Workshop “Multiple source constructions in language change”, Vilnius, Latvia.

Petré, P. (27 August 2010). The decline of weorðan in English versus the grammaticalization of werden in German [Paper presentation]. Workshop Contrastive study of the verbal categories and their grammaticalization in Old English and Old High German, 16th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Pécs, Hungary.

Petré, P. (25 August 2010). Weorðan ‘become’ and begin as indicators of the unbounded to bounded shift in English [Paper presentation]. Sixteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), workshop “Historical linguistics meets psycholinguistics”, Pécs, Hungary.

Petré, P. (2010). General productivity: how become waxed and wax became a copula. (279). Leuven, Belgium: Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven.

Petré, P., & Cuyckens, H. (December 2009). Constructional change in Old and Middle English Copular Constructions and its impact on the lexicon. Folia Linguistica Historica, 30 (1), 311-365. doi:10.1515/flih.2009.005
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Petré, P. (09 July 2009). Leuven English Old to New (LEON): Some ideas on a new corpus for longitudinal diachronic studies [Paper presentation]. Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics (MMECL), Innsbruck, Austria.

Petré, P. (2009). On the distribution of OE wesan ‘be’ and weorðan ‘become’ and weorðan’s loss in ME [Paper presentation]. Sixth Conference on Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL 6), Banff, Canada.

Petré, P. (2008). (Inter)subjectification in the Middle English Passive construction [Paper presentation]. 1st ELC International Postgraduate Conference on English Linguistics, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Petré, P. (2008). Be it as it is: on the development of the present stems of the verb beISLE edition:1 location:Freiburg date:8-11 October 2008 [Paper presentation]. First Triennial Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 1), Freiburg, Germany.

Petré, P., & Cuyckens, H. (2008). Bedusted, yet not beheaded: The role of be-’s constructional properties in its conservation. In A. Bergs & G. Diewald (Eds.), Constructions and Language Change: Selected papers from the Workshop on Constructions and Language Change, XVII International Conference on Historical Linguistics (pp. 133-170). Berlin, Germany: Mouton De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783110211757.133
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Petré, P. (2008). On bottle-necks in grammaticalization: the case of become [Paper presentation]. New Reflexions on Grammaticalization 4 (NRG 4), Leuven, Belgium.

Petré, P., & Cuyckens, H. (2008). The Old English copula weorðan and its replacement in Middle English. In M. Gotti, M. Dossena, ... R. Dury (Eds.), English historical linguistics 2006. Volume I Historical syntax and morphology. Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21-25 August 2006 (pp. 24-48). Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins.
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Petré, P. (30 January 2007). Review of A. Goldberg (2005) Constructions at work. The nature of generalization in language (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Linguist List, 17.

Petré, P. (2007). How become waxed and wax became a copula [Paper presentation]. Fifth Studies on the History of the English Language (SHEL 5), Athens, United States - Georgia.

Petré, P. (2006). The prefix be-/bi- as a marker of verbs of deception in late Old and early Middle English. BELL. Belgian Journal of English Language and Literatures, 4.
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Petré, P., & Cuyckens, H. (2006). The Copula construction in Old and Middle English: On the interaction between constructions and lexicon [Paper presentation]. 8th Conceptual Stucture, Discourse and Language Conference (CSDL 8), San Diego, United States - California.

Petré, P. (2006). The prefix be-/bi- as a marker of verbs of deception in late old and early Middle English. (247). Leuven, Belgium: Department of linguistics, University of Leuven.

Petré, P., & Cuyckens, H. (2006). Aspects of the emergence and diffusion of the for...to-infinitive [Paper presentation]. Directions in English Language Studies, Manchester, United Kingdom.

Petré, P., & Cuyckens, H. (2006). Bedusted, yet not beheaded: the role of be-'s constructional properties in its conservation. (244). Leuven, Belgium: Department of linguistics, University of Leuven.

Petré, P. (2006). The history of the English ‘passive’ construction: From intransitive predication to passive construction through intersubjectification [Paper presentation]. Third International Conference of BAAHE, Leuven, Belgium.

Petré, P. (2006). On ways of being on the way: On (det) path-noun to constructions and their aspectual meanings [Paper presentation]. 27th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 27), Helsinki, Finland.

Petré, P. (2005). On the variables determining the life span of English prefix constructions. A case study of the two prefixes be- and to- (NHG zer-) [Master’s dissertation, K.U.Leuven]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/80029

Petré, P., & Cuyckens, H. (2005). Bedusted, yet not beheaded: The role of be-’s constructional semantics in its conservation [Paper presentation]. 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 17), Madison, United States - Wisconsin.

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