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JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERSTRAETE

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Articles in internationally refereed journals

25. (forthcoming) Contact-induced restructuring of pronominal morphosyntax in Umpithamu (Cape York Peninsula, Australia). Diachronica.

24. (forthcoming) A typology of complement insubordination in Dutch. Studies in Language. (with Sarah D'Hertefelt & An Van linden)

23. (forthcoming) The role of mood marking in complex sentences: A case study of Australian languages. Word.

22. (2011) The functions of represented speech and thought in Umpithamu narratives. Australian Journal of Linguistics 31: 491-517.

21. (2011) Experienced action constructions in Umpithamu: Involuntary experience, from bodily processes to externally instigated actions. Cognitive Linguistics 22: 275-302.

20. (2011) Revisiting deontic modality and related categories. A conceptual map based on the study of English modal adjectives. Journal of Pragmatics 43: 150-163. (with An Van linden)

19. (2010) Distinguishing animacy effects for Agents: A case study of Australian languages. Australian Journal of Linguistics 30: 183-207. (with Stefanie Fauconnier)

18. (2010) Animacy and information structure in the system of ergative marking in Umpithamu. Lingua 120: 1637-1651.

17. (2009) Illocution and focus at the semantics/pragmatics interface in Umpithamu (Cape York, Australia). Linguistics 47: 867-884.

16. (2008) The status of purpose, reason and intended endpoint in the typology of complex sentences. Linguistics 46: 757-788.

15. (2008) The nature and origins of counterfactuality in simple clauses. Cross-linguistic evidence. Journal of Pragmatics 40: 1865-1895. (with An Van linden)

14. (2008) Same source, same target, different paths: From ‘person’ to reflexive in Umpithamu and other Paman languages. Language Sciences 30: 599-620.

13. (2008) The semantic development of essential and crucial. Paths to deontic meaning. English Studies 89: 226-247. (with An Van linden and Hubert Cuyckens)

12. (2008) Construing confrontation. Grammar in the construction of a key historical narrative in Umpithamu. Language in Society 37: 217-240. (with Barbara De Cock)

11. (2006) Coming to terms with subjectivity. Cognitive Linguistics 17: 365-392. (with Hendrik De Smet)

10. (2006) The nature of irreality in the past domain: Evidence from past intentional constructions in Australian languages. Australian Journal of Linguistics 26: 59-79.

9. (2005) The semantics and pragmatics of composite mood marking: The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia. Linguistic Typology 9: 223-268.

8. (2005) Scalar quantity implicatures and the interpretation of modality: Problems in the deontic domain. Journal of Pragmatics 37: 1401-1418.

7. (2005) Two types of coordination in clause combining. Lingua 115 (4) : 611-626.

6. (2004) Initial and final position for adverbial clauses in English: The constructional basis of the discursive and syntactic differences. Linguistics 42 (4): 819–853.

5. (2002/2003) Preverbal positions in three Germanic languages: The role of scope as a functional principle. Languages in Contrast 4 (1): 105–136.

4. (2002) The functional value of non-integration in clause combining: Interpersonal versus discursive independence. Word 53 (1): 37-65.

3. (2001) Subjective and objective modality: Interpersonal and ideational functions in the English modal auxiliary system. Journal of Pragmatics 33 (10): 1505-1528.

2. (2000) Attitudinal disjuncts and illocutionary force in clause combining. Functions of Language 7 (1): 117-131.

1. (1998) A semiotic model for the description of levels in conjunction: External, internal-modal and internal-speech functional. Functions of Language 5 (2): 179-211.

Articles in other journals

1. (1999) The distinction between epistemic and speech act conjunction. Belgian Essays on Language and Literature 119-130.

Editorial journal articles

2. (2010) Optional ergative marking and its implications for linguistic theory. Lingua 120: 1607-1609. (with Bill McGregor)

1. (2004) Introduction to thematic issue "Grounding and headedness in the noun phrase". Functions of Language 11 (1): 1-5.

Articles in internationally refereed volumes

4. (2011) Impersonal constructions in Umpithamu and the Lamalamic languages. In Andrej Malchukov and Anna Siewierska (eds.) Impersonal Constructions: A Cross-linguistic Perspective. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 601-618.

3. (2010) Focus, mood and clause linkage in Umpithamu (Cape York Peninsula, Australia). In Isabelle Bril (ed.) Clause-hierarchy and Clause-linking: The Syntax and Pragmatics Interface Amsterdam: Benjamins. 451-468.

2. (2007) The many faces of subordination, in Germanic and beyond. In Matti Miestamo and Bernhard Waelchli (eds.) New Challenges in Typology: Broadening the Horizons and Redefining the Foundations (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology). Berlin: Mouton. 363-383.

1. (2004) The problem of subjective modality in the Functional Grammar model. In J. Lachlan Mackenzie and M. G¢mez-Gonz lez (eds.) A new architecture for Functional Grammar (Functional Grammar series 24). Berlin: Mouton. 243-274.

Articles in internationally distributed volumes

1. (forthcoming) Formal criteria for subordination in the Germanic languages: in search of an explanation. In B. Cornillie, D. Divjak, P. Mertens and P. Swiggers (eds.) Structuring linguistic form (Orbis supplementa). Leuven: Peeters.

Authored books

1. (2007) Rethinking the Coordinate-Subordinate Dichotomy. Interpersonal Grammar and the Analysis of Adverbial Clauses in English (Topics in English Linguistics 55). Berlin: Mouton.

Edited books

1. (2010) with A. Van linden and K. Davidse. Formal Evidence in Grammaticalization Research (Typological Studies in Language 94). Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Dissertations

1. (2002) Interpersonal grammar and clause combining in English. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven.

Book reviews

1. (2005) Review of Joan Bybee & Paul J. Hopper (2001) Frequency and the emergence of linguistic structure (Amsterdam: Benjamins). Language 81: 498-501.

Book notices

7. (2005) Book notice on Michael Barlow & Susanne Kemmer (eds.) (2000) Usage-based models of language. Language 81: 512-513.

6. (2004) Book notice on Melissa Bowerman & Stephen C. Levinson (eds.) (2001) Language acquisition and conceptual development. Language 80: 875-876.

5. (2003) Book notice on Barbara Dancygier (1998) Conditionals and prediction. Language 79: 218-219.

4. (2003) Book notice on Pieter Verburg (1998) Language and its functions. Transl. by Paul Salmon. Language 79: 225-226.

3. (2003) Book notice on David McNeill (ed.) (2000) Language and gesture. Language 79: 661.

2. (2000) Book notice on Simon Dik (1997) The theory of Functional Grammar. Part 1: The structure of the clause & Part 2: Complex and derived constructions. Language 76: 210-212.

1. (2000) Book notice on Wolf-Andreas Liebert, Gisela Redeker & Linda Waugh (eds.) (1997) Discourse and perspective in Cognitive Linguistics. Language 76: 941.

Working papers

3. (2004) The role of mood marking in complex sentences: A case study of Australian languages. Preprints of the Department of Linguistics 215. Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven.

2. (2004) The semantics and pragmatics of composite mood marking: The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia. Preprints of the Department of Linguistics 214. Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven.

1. (2000) Interpersonal grammar and the typology of clause combining mechanisms in English. Preprints of the Department of Linguistics 171. Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven.