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TINE BREBAN

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Articles in internationally refereed journals

9. (2011) with Kristin Davidse and Lobke Ghesquière. Types of phoric relations expressed by complex determiners in English. Journal of Pragmatics 43: 2689-2703.

8. (2011) Secondary determiners as markers of generalized instantiation in English noun phrases. Cognitive Linguistics 22-3: 211-233.

7. (2011) Is there a postdeterminer in the English noun phrase? Transactions of the Philological Society 108-3: 248-264.

6. (2010) Reconstructing paths of secondary grammaticalization of same from emphasizing to phoricity and single-referent-marking postdeterminer uses. Transactions of the English Philological Society 108-1: 248-264

5. (2009) Constructional persistence: a case based on the grammaticalization of English adjectives of difference. English Language and Linguistics 13-1: 77-96.

4. (2008) The grammaticalization and subjectification of English adjectives expressing difference into plurality/distributivity markers and quantifiers. Folia Linguistica 42-2. 259–306.

3. (2008) with K. Davidse and A. Van linden. The development of secondary deictic meanings by adjectives in the English NP. English Language and Linguistics 12 (3): 475-503.

2. (2003) with K. Davidse. Adjectives of comparison: The grammaticalization of their attribute uses into postdeterminer and classifier uses. Folia Linguistica XXXVII (3-4): 269-317.

1. (2002/2003) The grammaticalization of the adjectives of identity and difference in English and Dutch. Languages in Contrast 4 (1): 167-201.

Articles in internationally refereed volumes

5. (forthcoming 2011) Functional shifts and the development of English determiners. In María José López-Couso, Bettelou Los & Anneli Meurman-Solin, eds. Information Structure and Syntactic Change. Studies in the History of English Series 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

4. (forthcoming) Deictification of the English adjectives of comparison. In Seana Coulson, ed. Volume proceeding from CSDL 2006 (8th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language: Language in Action), 3-5 November 2006, San Diego (CA). Stanford: CSLI publications.

3. (2006) Grammaticalization and subjectification of the English adjectives of general comparison. In A. Athanasiadou, C. Canakis and B. Cornillie (eds.) Subjectification: Various paths to subjectivity. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 241-278.

2. (2006) The grammaticalization of the English adjectives of comparison: A diachronic case study. In R. Facchinetti and M. Rissanen (eds.) Corpus-based studies of diachronic English (Linguistic insights: Studies in language and communication). Bern: Peter Lang. 253-288.

1. (2004) Comparative reference: A lexico-grammatical characterization of the different phoric patterns. In Antonio Branco, Tony McEnery and Ruslan Mitkov (eds.) Proceedings of DAARC2004, Fifth Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium. Lisboa: Edições Colibri. 15-20.

Authored books

1. (2010) English adjectives of comparison: Lexical and grammaticalized uses (Topics in English Linguistics 63). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Dissertations

2. (2006) English adjectives of general comparison: Lexical versus grammaticalized uses. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven.

1. (2002) Adjectives of comparison: Postdeterminer, epithet and classifier uses. Unpublished MA thesis, University of Leuven. Awarded the 2002 Prof. Dr. L.K. Engels award for best MA thesis in Germanic linguistics at the University of Leuven.

Reviews

1. (2011) Review of Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization, Ed. by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Language 87-3: 662-665.

Working papers

3. (2006) The grammaticalization and subjectification of English adjectives expressing difference into plurality/distributivity markers and quantifiers. Preprints of the Department of Linguistics 251. Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven.

2. (2006) with K. Davidse. The deictification of adjectives: the development of postdeterminer meanings. Preprints of the Department of Linguistics 250. Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven.

1. (2003) with K. Davidse. Adjectives of comparison: The grammaticalization of their attribute uses into postdeterminer and classifier uses. Preprints of the Department of Linguistics 200. Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven.