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KRISTIN DAVIDSE

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Refereed talks at international meetings

58. 2009. with L. Brems, E. Doyen, P.Willemse. A comparison of sort/kind/type of and genre (de) in teenage language: nominal and non-nominal grammaticalized constructions. BAAHE Annual Conference. Lessius, Antwerp (5 December).

57. 2009. with T. Van Rompaey. P N of V-markers of progressive aspect: distinct source constructions and grammaticalization. First Vigo-Newcastle-Santiago-Leuven International Workshop on the Structure of the Noun Phrase in English: Synchronic and Diachronic Explorations (NP1), University of Vigo (2-3 October).

56. 2009. with E. Doyen. The advanced grammaticalization of genre in teenage language. 28th Lexis & Grammar Conference. University of Bergen (30 September-3 October)

55. 2009. with L. Ghesquière. The development of emphasizing uses by adjectives:
Source constructions and scales. First Vigo-Newcastle-Santiago-Leuven International Workshop on the Structure of the Noun Phrase in English: Synchronic and Diachronic Explorations (NP1), University of Vigo (2-3 October).

54. 2009. with L. Brems and R. Laverge. Complex subordinators with noun phrases that take complement clauses as source construction: a case for paradigmatic enrichment. SLE 42nd annual meeting, Lissabon (9-12 September).

53. 2009. with M. Vanden Eynde. A functional approach to the definition of the paradigm by the syntagm: the case of English secondary auxiliaries. SLE 42nd annual meeting, Lissabon (9-12 September).

52. 2009. with E. Doyen. Using e-data for the study of language change: a comparative study of the grammaticalized uses of French genre in teenage and adult forum data. The 5th Web as Corpus Workshop. University of San Sebastian (7 September).

51. 2009. with A. Van linden. The role of the informational accessibility of the subject in the development of adjectival complementation from Old English to Present-day English. ICHL19, University of Nijmegen (10-14 August).

50. 2009. Bare plural NPs in English: indefinites versus generics. Bare nominals and indefinites. University of Florianópolis. (June 4-5).

49. 2009. with P. Willemse. The discourse embedding of possessive NPs: A corpus analysis of the identifiability status of their two referents. ICAME 30, University of Lancaster (27-31 May).

48. 2009. with L. Brems and R. Laverge. Noun phrases with appositive clauses as a
neglected source of complex subordinators: a corpus-based study. ICAME 30, University of Lancaster (27-31 May).

47. 2009. with L. Brems. The reanalysis and grammaticalization of nominal constructions with kind/sort of: chronology and paths of change. International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC) 1. University of Murcia (7-9 May).

46. 2009. with A. Van linden and D. Noël. Information structure and the development of adjectival complementation. Information Structure between linguistics and psycholinguistics, K.U.Leuven (3-4 March).

45. 2008. with T. Brzyk and S. Vandewinkel. The adjectives of purity: a case for distinguishing contextual from reinforcing emphasizers. BAAHE, Namur (22 November)

44. 2008. with T. Breban The complex deictic semantics of the indefinite determiner + postdeterminer unit in English. 1st Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English. University of Freiburg (8-11 October).

43. 2008. with L. Brems & P. Willemse. Synchronic layering of type nouns in English and French. 41st SLE Meeting (Languages in Contrast: Grammar, Translation, Corpora), University of Bologna at Forli (17-20 September).

42. 2008. with L. Ghesquière. Comparing the paths of change of complete and particular. 41st SLE Meeting (Languages in Contrast: Grammar, Translation, Corpora), University of Bologna at Forli (17-20 September).

41. 2008. with T. Brzyk. Colloque International sur le Lexique et la Grammaire 27. L’Aquila (September 10-13). The emphasizing uses of sheer and mere: a case for distinguishing contextual from reinforcing emphasizers.

40. 2008. with T. Van Rompaey. ICAME 29, University of Zurich, Ascona (14 - 18 May) Be in the middle/midst or process of: a diachronic perspective on the development of progressive aspect marker uses.

39. 2008. Complete and sort of: from identifying to intensifying? Workshop on the English NP. University of Sheffield (4-5 April).

38. 2008. with K. Carlon & L. Van Wayenberghe. The company mate(s) keep: do the collocates of this key-word reflect Australian culture? International Conference on Global English. University of Verona (12-14 February).

37. 2007. with T. Van Rompaey and K. Pijls. Be in the middle/midst of versus be in the process of: source meaning and the grammaticalization of complex prepositions into progressive markers. BAAHE Annual Conference, Université de Liège (8 December).

36. 2007. with T. Breban. Subjectification and structural movement of prenominal adjectives in the English NP: a diachronic perspective. International Conference on “Adjectives”. Lille (13-15 September).

35. 2007. with T. Breban and S.Vandewinkel. Adjectives and subjectivity: towards a comprehensive typology. 2nd International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, Toulouse (2-4 July).

34. 2007. with A. Van linden and M. Roselle. Deontic-evaluative adjectives in extraposition constructions and their clausal complementation. ICAME 28, Stratford-upon-Avon (23-27 May).

33. 2007. with L. Brems and P. Willemse. The development of extended type noun uses: a comparison between English sort/kind and French sorte/espèce. ICAME 28, Stratford-upon-Avon (23-27 May).

32. 2006. with D. Kimps. Imperative constant polarity tag questions as (inter-)subjective constructions. 3rd International BAAHE Conference. Varieties of Voice. KULeuven (7-9 December).

31. 2006. with T. Breban. Deictification. The development of ground-related meanings of adjectives. 7th Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Congress: Language in Action., San Diego (3-5 November).

30. 2006. with K. Rymen. Cognate and locative complements: Their effect on (a)telicity and their semantic relation to the verb. Colloque International sur le Lexique et la Grammaire 25, University of Palermo (6-10 September).

29. 2006. with S. Vandewinkel and L. Vandelanotte. 'Emphasizer' use of adjectives and category shift in the NP: The case of 'pure'. Directions in English language studies, University of Manchester (6-8 April).

28. 2005. with L. Brems. Type noun constructions: Paths of grammaticalization. NRG 3 (New Reflections on Grammaticalization) University of Santiago de Compostela (17-20 July).

27. 2005. with L. Heyvaert, N. Olivier and H. Cuyckens. The ergative intransitive and the middle: A case of subjectification? NRG 3 (New Reflections on Grammaticalization) University of Santiago de Compostela (17-20 July).

26. 2005. with L. Heyvaert and A. Laffut. Conjunctive relations in learner and professional English essays: patterns and profiles. Corpus Linguistics Conference, University of Birmingham (14-17 July).

25. 2005. with T. Breban. The development of postdeterminer uses of adjectives: grammaticalization and semantic shift. ICAME 26. Ann Arbor Michigan, (12-15 May).

24. 2005. with A. Van linden. Degrees of subjectivity of prenominal adjectives: diachronic change, linear order, and constructional relations as determining factors. From ideational to interpersonal: perspectives on grammaticalization. Leuven (10-12 February).

23. 2005. with T. Breban The grammaticalization of attributive adjectives into postdeterminers: general phoric mechanisms. From ideational to interpersonal: perspectives on grammaticalization. Leuven (10-12 February).

22. 2004. with M. Vanden Eynde. Analysing the grammaticalization of edge noun-expressions: a data-driven approach. 6th Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Congress. Experimental and Empirical Methods. Alberta (8-10 October).

21. 2004. with M. Vanden Eynde & C. Vanhoof Grammaticalized constructions with edge nouns.
ICAME 25. Corpus Linguistics: The State of the Art Twenty-Five Years on. Verona (19-23 May).

20. 2003. Functional and Cognitive Grammar: The description of it- and there-clefts. 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Logroño, University of La Rioja (20-25 July).

19. 2002. The interaction of quantification and identification in English determiners.
5th Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Congress. Rice University (October 11-14).

18. 2002. Lexical and discourse contexts of fact-nominalizations.26th ICAME Congress Göteborg (23-25 May).

17. 2002. with P. Willemse. Reference: beyond the grammar/discourse dichotomy. 2nd International BAAHE conference: Beyond: New Perspectives in Linguistics, Literary Studies and Language Teaching. ULB Brussels (28-30 November).

16. 2002. with L. Brems. Beyond Langacker’s distinction of absolute and relative quantifiers. 2nd International BAAHE conference: Beyond: New Perspectives in Linguistics, Literary Studies and Language Teaching. ULB Brussels (28-30 November).

15. 2001. with P. Willemse and T. Tallir. Comparative postdeterminers: a pilot study. 24th SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea) Meeting, University of Leuven (28-31 August).

14. 2001. with L. Vandelanotte en P. Willemse. Workshop: Descriptive heuristics: Discovering and interpreting lexicogrammatical patterns. 28th International Systemic Functional Linguistics Congress, Ottawa (22-27 July).

13. 2000 with A. Laffut, L. Heyvaert, J.-C. Verstraete. Workshop: On agnation and distribution.27th International Systemic Functional Congress, Melbourne (15-20 July).

12. 2000. A functional approach to postdeterminers. 27th International Systemic Functional Congress, Melbourne (15-20 July).

11. 1999. with A. Laffut. Verb meaning and construction sets: the case of caused NP-PrepP relations.LACUS, Alberta University, Edmonton, Canada, (2-7 August).

10. 1999 with Liesbet Heyvaert. On the so-called middle construction in English and Dutch. Symposium on Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies, UCL (5-6 February).

9. 1998 On existential constructions and existential clefts. 25th International Systemic Functional Congress, Cardiff (13-18 July).

8. 1997 The Agent-Patient asymmetry versus the Subject-Object asymmetry. Objects, grammatical relations and semantic roles, Gent (23-24 May)

7. 1994 Experiential variation in the ditransitive paradigm. 21st International Systemic Functional Congress, Gent (1-5 August)

6. 1993 Two models of causality. 3rd International Cognitive Linguistics Congress, Leuven (19-23 July)

5. 1992 Transitivity and ergativity in Hopkins. International Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA), Gent (8-11 September).

4. 1992 Workshop: On the real function of subject. 19th International Systemic-Functional Congress, Sydney (13-18 July).

3. 1992 Construals of 'being'. 19th International Systemic-Functional Congress, Sydney (13-18 July).

2. 1990 17th International Systemic Congress Stirling (3-7 July) "Explorations in Transitivity"

1. 1984 The linguistic creativity of Gerard Manley Hopkins. BAAHE annual meeting, ULB (December).

Invited plenaries and keynote talks

5. 2008 with T. Breban and A. Van linden. The development of secondary deictic meanings by adjectives in the English NP. Cognitive and social foundations of grammaticalization. ALEAR Workshop, Bran (9-12 September).

4. 2007 with P. Petré, K. Pijls, M. Vanden Eynde & T. Van Rompaey. The expression of aspectual meanings by grammaticalized complex prepositions in English. 40th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Joensuu (29 August - 1 September 2007).

3. 2007 Deictification. “What's New in Grammaticalization”, Freie Universität Berlin (11-12 May 2007).

2. 2001 The Clause as Representation. 28th International Systemic Functional Congress, Carleton University, Ottawa (23-27 July 2001).

1. 1996 The grammar of caused 'having' and 'being': complementary models. International Systemic Functional Congress, University of Technology, Sydney (15-19 July 1996)

Other invited talks

6. 2008 with T. Breban and A. Van linden. Grammaticalization and subjectification in the (English) NP: the case of deictification. University of Hong Kong.

5. 2003 with L. Heyvaert. Process-participant constellations and interpersonal clause structure: the case of the middle construction. University of Aarhus.

4. 2001 Systemic Functional Theory and Descriptive Heuristics, 1-4. University of Southern Denmark.

3. 1996 Existential constructions and quantitative instantiation. University of Queensland.

2. 1996 Existential constructions: why they count rather than locate. University of Melbourne,

1. 1996 Ergative lexicogrammar in English. University of Antwerp.