Liesbet Heyvaert
Biographic Data
| ID | 1104983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liesbet Heyvaert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liesbet |
| FAMILY NAME | Heyvaert |
| SIGNATURE | HEYVAERT L |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3515-5451 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Skills as stepping stones for employability
OECD reports a mismatch between field of study and job content for Humanities students, while at the same time signalling labour market shortages for skills that seem clearly linked with the Humanities, e.g. delivering information. In order to investigate which skills Humanities students associate with their university studies, we conducted a survey among 1306 European Humanities and 231 non-Humanities students. The survey asked these students wh…
Categorial shift
Nominal and verbal gerunds in present-day English
Indefinite Nominal Gerunds, or the Particularization of a Reified Event
This paper focuses on nominal gerunds that combine verb-like semantics with the use of an indefinite article, as in Such reflection enables [a sharing of understandings]. The indefinite article in constructions like these is at first sight irreconcilable with the uncount status of the nominal gerund, and this gerund type has therefore tended to be either neglected or reduced to fully lexicalized (count) nouns. We argue that the use of the indefin…
How do gerunds conceptualize events? A diachronic study
This article offers a cognitive perspective on the evolution of the semantics of English nominal gerunds (NG) (I regret the signing of the contract ) and verbal gerunds (VG) (I regret signing the contract ). While the formal differences between NGs and VGs are well documented, their semantics remains largely unexplored territory. The perspective that is taken here is centered on the linguistic notion of reference and various aspects of the concep…
Root Modal Uses of Should, Ought to and Be Supposed to in Present-Day English
Many non-native speakers of English find it hard to use modal auxiliaries correctly. As far as the so-called ‘weak’ root modals of necessity are concerned, (learner) grammars fail to provide clear guidelines about the use of these modals in specific usage contexts. While differences between should and ought to are minimized, be supposed to tends to be marginalized and its semantic profile remains vague. A study of 1200 corpus examples reveals the…
Source and strength of modality
Attenders or attendees? Deverbal -ee and -er variants in English
Collex-Biz
This paper reports on the development of Collex-Biz, a corpus-driven web-based learning platform for general economic English. The design of this platform was informed by a number of research-based principles, particularly frequency and collocation, which are insufficiently incorporated in existing Business English course materials. Following Sinclair & Renouf (1988) and Nelson (2000), we first developed a ‘lexical syllabus’ for first-year Busine…
On the middle voice
In this article we approach the phenomenon of the English middle voice from a functional-cognitive perspective. Assuming the distinction between representational and interpersonal layers of organization in the clause (Halliday 1985; Hengeveld 1989; McGregor 1997), we propose that the elements and relations that define the English middle are of an interpersonal nature. We argue that the characteristic relation between nonagentive subject and activ…
A symbolic approach to deverbal -ee derivation
In a number of recent publications on deverbal -ee suffixation (Barker 1998; Booij and Lieber 2004; Portero Muñoz 2003) the position is defended that the extension of the system towards agentive entities (e.g., escapee, returnee, attendee) can only be explained in semantic terms, by attributing some degree of “lack of volition” (Barker 1998) or “undergoerhood” (Portero Muñoz 2003) to the profiled Agents. In this paper I show that the semantics of…
Pronominal Determiners in Gerundive Nominalization
It can be pointed out here, however, that, as Visser shows in An Historical Syntax, 1172 -7, the use of the non-genitive case in gerundive nominals does not come out of the blue and can be traced back to Old English.It may, in other words, not be as innovative and recent as some grammarians seem to suggest
Deverbal - er suffixation as the equivalent of the clausal Subject-Finite unit
In this paper, the position is defended that deverbal -er suffixation establishes a relation between an entity and a process which is strikingly similar to the clausal Subject-Finite relation. It is first shown that nonagentive -er nominals (e.g. kneeler, squeezer, sleeper) cannot be explained as semantic extensions of the agentive prototype (e.g. sinner, preacher). Instead, the Subject analysis is argued to provide a better generalization for th…
Nominalization as an ‘interpersonally-driven’ system
This paper analyzes different types of deverbal -er nominals and factive nominalizations and argues that they can only be fully described and generalized across if, in addition to their ideational properties, the interpersonal categories which they realize are also considered. It is shown that interpersonal functions such as Subject/person deixis, finite/non-finite grounding and the Mood-relation between them are not exclusively clausal categorie…
Indefinite Nominal Gerunds, or the Particularization of a Reified Event
This paper focuses on nominal gerunds that combine verb-like semantics with the use of an indefinite article, as in Such reflection enables [a sharing of understandings]. The indefinite article in constructions like these is at first sight irreconcilable with the uncount status of the nominal gerund, and this gerund type has therefore tended to be either neglected or reduced to fully lexicalized (count) nouns. We argue that the use of the indefin…
How do gerunds conceptualize events? A diachronic study
This article offers a cognitive perspective on the evolution of the semantics of English nominal gerunds (NG) (I regret the signing of the contract ) and verbal gerunds (VG) (I regret signing the contract ). While the formal differences between NGs and VGs are well documented, their semantics remains largely unexplored territory. The perspective that is taken here is centered on the linguistic notion of reference and various aspects of the concep…
Nominal and verbal gerunds in present-day English
On the middle voice
In this article we approach the phenomenon of the English middle voice from a functional-cognitive perspective. Assuming the distinction between representational and interpersonal layers of organization in the clause (Halliday 1985; Hengeveld 1989; McGregor 1997), we propose that the elements and relations that define the English middle are of an interpersonal nature. We argue that the characteristic relation between nonagentive subject and activ…
Source and strength of modality
Pronominal Determiners in Gerundive Nominalization
It can be pointed out here, however, that, as Visser shows in An Historical Syntax, 1172 -7, the use of the non-genitive case in gerundive nominals does not come out of the blue and can be traced back to Old English.It may, in other words, not be as innovative and recent as some grammarians seem to suggest
Nominalization as an ‘interpersonally-driven’ system
This paper analyzes different types of deverbal -er nominals and factive nominalizations and argues that they can only be fully described and generalized across if, in addition to their ideational properties, the interpersonal categories which they realize are also considered. It is shown that interpersonal functions such as Subject/person deixis, finite/non-finite grounding and the Mood-relation between them are not exclusively clausal categorie…
Deverbal - er suffixation as the equivalent of the clausal Subject-Finite unit
In this paper, the position is defended that deverbal -er suffixation establishes a relation between an entity and a process which is strikingly similar to the clausal Subject-Finite relation. It is first shown that nonagentive -er nominals (e.g. kneeler, squeezer, sleeper) cannot be explained as semantic extensions of the agentive prototype (e.g. sinner, preacher). Instead, the Subject analysis is argued to provide a better generalization for th…
Pronominal Determiners in Gerundive Nominalization
It can be pointed out here, however, that, as Visser shows in An Historical Syntax, 1172 -7, the use of the non-genitive case in gerundive nominals does not come out of the blue and can be traced back to Old English.It may, in other words, not be as innovative and recent as some grammarians seem to suggest
A symbolic approach to deverbal -ee derivation
In a number of recent publications on deverbal -ee suffixation (Barker 1998; Booij and Lieber 2004; Portero Muñoz 2003) the position is defended that the extension of the system towards agentive entities (e.g., escapee, returnee, attendee) can only be explained in semantic terms, by attributing some degree of “lack of volition” (Barker 1998) or “undergoerhood” (Portero Muñoz 2003) to the profiled Agents. In this paper I show that the semantics of…
On the middle voice
In this article we approach the phenomenon of the English middle voice from a functional-cognitive perspective. Assuming the distinction between representational and interpersonal layers of organization in the clause (Halliday 1985; Hengeveld 1989; McGregor 1997), we propose that the elements and relations that define the English middle are of an interpersonal nature. We argue that the characteristic relation between nonagentive subject and activ…
Collex-Biz
This paper reports on the development of Collex-Biz, a corpus-driven web-based learning platform for general economic English. The design of this platform was informed by a number of research-based principles, particularly frequency and collocation, which are insufficiently incorporated in existing Business English course materials. Following Sinclair & Renouf (1988) and Nelson (2000), we first developed a ‘lexical syllabus’ for first-year Busine…
Attenders or attendees? Deverbal -ee and -er variants in English
Source and strength of modality
How do gerunds conceptualize events? A diachronic study
This article offers a cognitive perspective on the evolution of the semantics of English nominal gerunds (NG) (I regret the signing of the contract ) and verbal gerunds (VG) (I regret signing the contract ). While the formal differences between NGs and VGs are well documented, their semantics remains largely unexplored territory. The perspective that is taken here is centered on the linguistic notion of reference and various aspects of the concep…
Root Modal Uses of Should, Ought to and Be Supposed to in Present-Day English
Many non-native speakers of English find it hard to use modal auxiliaries correctly. As far as the so-called ‘weak’ root modals of necessity are concerned, (learner) grammars fail to provide clear guidelines about the use of these modals in specific usage contexts. While differences between should and ought to are minimized, be supposed to tends to be marginalized and its semantic profile remains vague. A study of 1200 corpus examples reveals the…
Indefinite Nominal Gerunds, or the Particularization of a Reified Event
This paper focuses on nominal gerunds that combine verb-like semantics with the use of an indefinite article, as in Such reflection enables [a sharing of understandings]. The indefinite article in constructions like these is at first sight irreconcilable with the uncount status of the nominal gerund, and this gerund type has therefore tended to be either neglected or reduced to fully lexicalized (count) nouns. We argue that the use of the indefin…
Categorial shift
Nominal and verbal gerunds in present-day English
Skills as stepping stones for employability
OECD reports a mismatch between field of study and job content for Humanities students, while at the same time signalling labour market shortages for skills that seem clearly linked with the Humanities, e.g. delivering information. In order to investigate which skills Humanities students associate with their university studies, we conducted a survey among 1306 European Humanities and 231 non-Humanities students. The survey asked these students wh…
Linguistics (13 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Noun (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Verb (6 works)