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HUBERT CUYCKENS

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Articles in internationally refereed journals

6. (2008) with A. Van linden and J.C. Verstraete. The semantic development of essential and crucial. Paths to deontic meaning. English Studies 89 (2): 226-247.

5. (2005) with H. De Smet. Pragmatic strengthening and the meaning of complement constructions: The case of like and love with the to-infinitive. Journal of English Linguistics 33 (1): 3-34.

4. (1998) with S. Frisson, D. Sandra, G. Van Rillaer, and F. Brisard. Flexible semantic processing of spatial prepositions
Journal of Semantics 15 (3): 191-214.

3. (1995) Family resemblance in the Dutch spatial prepositions door and langs. Cognitive Linguistics 6 (2/3): 183-208.

2. (1993) Spatial prepositions in French revisited. Review article on C. Vandeloise (1991) Spatial prepositions: A case study from French ( Chicago : The University of Chicago Press). Cognitive Linguistics 4 (3): 291-310.

1. (1984) The deictic vs. non-deictic ambiguity in the spatial uses of prepositions. Lingvisticae Investigationes 8 (1): 187-194.

Articles in internationally distributed journals

5. (1995) with L. Cornelis. Van door naar through en by [From door to through and by]. Toegepaste taalwetenschap in artikelen 53: 203-212.

4. (1991) Prepositions as a part of speech. Linguistica Antverpiensia 25: 107-127.

3. (1985) AT - a typically English preposition. Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics 19: 49-64.

2. (1982) Componential analysis in psycholinguistics. ITL Review of Applied Linguistics 57: 53-75.

1. (1982) Componentiële analyse vs. niet-componentiële analyse [Componential analysis vs. non-componential analysis]. Tijdschrift voor Taal- en Tekstwetenschap 2: 169-198.

Articles in other journals

1. (1981) Computers in de taalkunde [Computers in linguistics]. In Streven 1981: 810- 818.

Articles in internationally refereed volumes

12. (forthcoming) with P. Petré. The Old English copula weorðan and its replacement in Middle English. In M. Gotti et al. (eds.) Selected papers from 14 ICEHL. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

11. (forthcoming) with P. Petré. Bedusted, yet not beheaded: The role of be-'s constructional properties in its conservation. In A. Bergs en G. Diewald (eds.) Constructions and language change: Selected papers from the Workshop on Constructions and Language Change, XVII International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

10. (forthcoming) with H. De Smet. Diachronic aspects of complementation: Constructions, entrenchment, and the matching problem. In C. Cain, S. Harrington, and G. Russom (eds.) Shaking the tree: Fresh perspectives on the genealogy of English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

9. (forthcoming) with H. De Smet. For…to-infinitives from Early to Late Modern English. Papers from the Second Late Modern English Conference. To be published in the series Linguistic insights: Studies in language and communication. Frankfurt: Lang.

8. (2003) with J. Taylor and R. Dirven. Introduction: New directions in cognitive lexical semantic research. In H. Cuyckens, R. Dirven, and J. Taylor (eds.), Cognitive approaches to lexical semantics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1-28.

7. (2001) with B. Zawada. Introduction. In H. Cuyckens and B. Zawada (eds.) Polysemy in cognitive linguistics: Selected papers from the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997 (Current issues in linguistic theory 177). Amsterdam: Benjamins. ix-xxvii.

6. (1999) with D. Sandra. Fuzziness in Dutch prepositional categories. In B. A. Fox, D. Jurafsky, and L. Michaelis (eds.) Cognition and function in language. Stanford: CSLI Publications. 200-219.

5. (1997) with C. Braecke, R. Geluykens, and G. Jacobs. The use of modal auxiliaries in non-native communicative style: Implications for foreign language learning. In M. Pütz (ed.) The cultural context in foreign language learning. Bern: Lang. 67-84.

4. (1996) with S. Frisson, D. Sandra, and F. Brisard. From one meaning to the next: The effect of polysemous relationships in lexical learning. In R. Dirven and M. Pütz (eds.) The construal of space in language and thought. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 613-647.

3. (1993) The Dutch spatial preposition 'in': A cognitive-semantic analysis. In C. Zelinsky-Wibbelt (ed.) The semantics of prepositions in natural language processing. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 27-71.

2. (1984) Towards a non-unified view of word meaning. In Papers from the twentieth regional meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society: Parasession on lexical semantics. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 71-80.

1. (1983) Formal semantics: A lexical semantic approach. In H. Bennis en W.U.S. van Lessen Kloeke (eds.) Linguistics in the Netherlands 1983. Dordrecht: Foris. 53-61.

Articles in internationally distributed volumes

13. (2007) with N. Olivier, L. Brems, K. Davidse and D. Speelman. 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.

12. (2005) with W. De Mulder and T. Mortelmans. Introduction. In H. Cuyckens, W. De Mulder and Tanja Mortelmans (eds.) Adpositions of movement (Belgian Journal of Linguistics 18). Amsterdam: Benjamins.

11. (2002) Metonymy in prepositions. In H. Cuyckens and G. Radden (eds.) Perspectives on prepositions. Tübingen: Niemeyer. 257-268.

10. (2002) with G. Radden. Introduction. In H. Cuyckens and G. Radden (eds.) Perspectives on prepositions. Tübingen: Niemeyer. ix-xvii.

9. (1999) Grammaticalization in the English prepositions 'to' and 'for'. In B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (ed.) Cognitive perspectives on language. Frankfurt: Lang. 151-161.

8. (1999) Historical evidence in prepositional semantics: The case of English 'by'. In G. Tops, B. Devriendt, and S. Geukens (eds.) Thinking English grammar: To honour Xavier Dekeyser, professor emeritus (Orbis Supplementa 12). Leuven: Peeters. 15-32.

7. (1998) with M. Verspoor. On the road to 'to'. In J. van der Auwera, F. Durieux, and L. Lejeune (eds.) English as a human language: To honour Louis Goossens (LINCOM Studies in Germanic linguistics 4). Lincom: Muenchen. 57-72.

6. (1997) with D. Sandra and S. Rice. Towards an empirical lexical semantics. In B. Smeija and M. Tasch (eds.) Human contact through language and linguistics. Bern: Lang. 35-54.

5. (1997) Spatial prepositions in cognitive lexical semantics. In D. Haumann and S. Schierholz (eds.) Lexikalische und grammatische Eigenschaften präpositionaler Elemente. Tübingen: Niemeyer. 63-82.

4. (1994) Family resemblance in the Dutch spatial preposition op. In M. Schwarz (ed.) Kognitive Semantik/Cognitive semantics: Ergebnisse, Probleme, Perspektiven. Tübingen: Narr. 179-194.

3. (1988) Spatial prepositions in cognitive semantics. In W. Hüllen and R. Schulze (eds.) Understanding the lexicon. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer. 316-328.

2. (1985) Towards a convergence between lexical and formal semantics? In G. Hoppenbrouwes, P. Seuren, and T. Weijters (eds.) Proceedings of the second international colloquium on the interdisciplinary study of the semantics of natural language: Meaning and the lexicon. Dordrecht: Foris. 444-451.

Articles in other volumes

8. (2000) Metonymie in preposities [Metonymy in prepositions]. In S. Gillis, J. Nuyts, and J. Taeldeman (eds.) Met taal om de tuin geleid: Opstellen voor Georges de Schutter. Antwerpen: Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen. 63-73.

7. (1985) Een semantische beschrijving van plaatsaanduidende relationele voorzetsels [A semantic description of spatial relational prepositions]. In Linguistics in Belgium 7. Brussels: Brussels Preprints in Linguistics, 1985, pp. 18-44.

6. (1985) Unjustified optimism in lexical semantics. In Linguistics in Belgium 7. Brussels: Brussels Preprints in Linguistics, 1985, pp. 1-17.

5. (1985) Naar een revaluatie van componentiële analyse [Towards a revaluation of componential analysis]. In K. van den Eynde, M. Dominicy and S.P. Verluyten (eds.) Linguistics in Belgium 6. Antwerpen: Antwerp Papers in Linguistics (Special Issue), 1985, pp. 25- 41.

4. (1983) Spatial prepositions: Towards a treatment of word meaning in formal semantics. In L. Goossens en F. Daems (eds.) Een spyeghel voor G. Jo Steenbergen. Leuven: Acco. 69-82.

3. (1981) Artificiële Intelligentie en de structuur van ruimtelijke¨noties: Enkele perspectieven [Artificial intelligence and the structure of spatial notions: Some perspectives]. In Symposium I.B.M.-N.F.W.O., 1981. 51-55.

2. (1981) De semantische structuur van spatiale preposities: in vs. op [The semantic structure of spatial prepositions: in vs. op]. In L. Goossens (ed.) Bijdragen over semantiek van het 33ste Vlaams filologencongres. Antwerpen: Antwerp Papers in Linguistics 23. 3-20.

Edited books

10. (forthcoming) with D. Geeraerts. Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

9. (forthcoming) with K. Davidse and J.-C. Verstraete. Grammaticalization and grammar (Typological studies in language). Amsterdam: Benjamins.

8. (forthcoming) with K. Davidse and L. Vandelanotte. Subjectification, intersubjectification, and grammaticalization (Topics in English Linguistics). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

7. (forthcoming) with W. De Mulder, T. Mortelmans, and M. Goyens. Variation and change in adpositions of movement (Studies in Language Companion Series). Amsterdam: Benjamins.

5. (2003) with Th. Berg, R. Dirven, and K.-U. Panther. Motivation in language: Studies in honor of Günter Radden (Current issues in linguistic theory 243). Amsterdam: Benjamins.

4. (2003) with R. Dirven and J.R. Taylor. Cognitive approaches to lexical semantics (Cognitive linguistics research 23). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

3. (2002) with G. Radden. Perspectives on prepositions (Linguistische Arbeiten 454). Tübingen: Niemeyer.

2. (2001) with B. Zawada. Polysemy in cognitive linguistics: Selected papers from the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997 (Current issues in linguistic theory 177). Amsterdam: Benjamins.

1. (1991) with C. Braecke. Business communication in multilingual Europe: Supply and demand. Proceedings from the 2nd ENCoDe Conference at the University of Antwerp (UFSIA), Febr 1990. Universiteit Antwerpen (UFSIA).

Dissertations

1. (1991) The semantics of spatial prepositions in Dutch: A cognitive-linguistic exercise. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Linguistics, University of Antwerp (UIA). Also available from University Microfilms International.

Book reviews

4. (1996) Review of Rita Nolan (1994) Cognitive practices (Oxford: Blackwell). Functions of Language 3 (1): 135-138.

3. (1984) Review of G. Pulman (1983) Word meaning and belief (London: Croom Helm). Communication and Cognition 17 (4): 467-470.

2. (1984) Review of E. Smith and D. Medin (1981)Categories and concepts (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP). Communication and Cognition 17 (2/3): 356-359.

1. (1983) Review of J.D. McCawley (1981) Everything that linguists have always wanted to know about logic - but were ashamed to ask (Oxford: Blackwell). Journal of Pragmatics 7: 325-331.

Working papers

5. (2006) with P. Petré. Bedusted, yet not beheaded: The role of be-‘s constructional properties in its conservation. Preprints of the Department of Linguistics 247. Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven.

5. (2004) with H. De Smet. Pragmatic strengthening and the meaning of complement constructions: The case of like and love with the to-infinitive. Preprints of the Department of Linguistics 218. Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven.

4. (1998) Historical evidence in prepositional semantics: The case of English ‘by'. C.L.E.A.R. (Cognitive Linguistics: Explorations, Applications, Research) 29. University of Hamburg, Englisches Seminar. 18 pp.

3. (1998) Grammaticalization in the English prepositions TO and FOR. C.L.E.A.R. (Cognitive Linguistics: Explorations, Applications, Research) 28. University of Hamburg, Englisches Seminar. 12 pp.

2. (1998) On the road to TO. C.L.E.A.R. (Cognitive Linguistics: Explorations, Applications, Research) 27. University of Hamburg, Englisches Seminar. 14 pp.

1. (1980) with S. Gillis. Semantic analysis and implementation of predicates expressing motion; the construction of an artificial language user. Antwerp Papers in Linguistics 19. Dept of Linguistics, Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen.