Dana Louagie

Biographic Data

ID2419074
NAMEDana Louagie
GIVEN NAMESDana
FAMILY NAMELouagie
SIGNATURELOUAGIE D
AFFILIATIONSKU Leuven
ORCID0000-0001-8669-7782
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS46
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Noun incorporation in English

    Open AccessDana Louagie, An Van LindenARTICLEFunctions of Language2025References: 34

    This paper gives a unified account of noun incorporation in Present-Day English from a constructional and typological perspective. We first investigate how productive it really is, given the contrasting statements in the literature. Using data from the WordBanks Online corpus, we show that the process is remarkably productive: it is highly extensible, with high type frequency and a broad variety of possible semantic relations between the incorpor…

  • Word Classes in Australian Languages

    Dana LouagieCHAPTEROxford Handbook of Word Classes2023

    This chapter discusses word classes in Australian languages, covering the large Pama–Nyungan family as well as several smaller families. Australian languages are often described as generally lacking a noun–adjective distinction. This is true for part of the languages: they have a flexible class of nominals that can function both referentially and attributively. Other languages, however, have a distinct adjective class, which in some languages is …

  • Typologizing nominal expressions

    Open AccessDana Louagie, Uta ReinöhlARTICLELinguistics2022References: 128

    This article develops foundations for a new typology of nominal expressions. Despite the significant diversity attested in languages around the world, a view traditionally and sometimes still found holds that languages either have ‘classic’, rigidly structured noun phrases (NPs) or lack them. A simple dichotomy, however, does not adequately represent the significant language-internal and crosslinguistic diversity of forms and functions of nominal…

  • Multiple construction types for nominal expressions in Australian languages

    Open AccessDana LouagieARTICLEStudies in Language2022Cited by: 20References: 19

    This paper explores the rich diversity in structural possibilities that are available for (simple) nominal expressions in Australian languages. First, I identify a number of construction types found across a 50 language sample, which may be recognised by using a restricted set of parameters. I show that an important factor is whether a given parameter (such as word order) is generalised or displayed only by some word classes. Second, I develop a …

  • Noun Phrases in Australian Languages

    Dana LouagieBOOKNoun Phrases in Australian…2019Cited by: 3

    This book presents a first comprehensive typological analysis of noun phrases in Australian languages, covering the domains of classification, qualification, quantification, determination and constituency. The analysis is based on a representative sample of 100 languages. Among other points, the results call into question the classic idea that Australian languages tend to lack phrasal structures in the nominal domain, with over two thirds of the …

  • The Status of Determining Elements in Australian Languages

    Dana LouagieARTICLEAustralian Journal of Linguistics2016Cited by: 23References: 23

    Australian languages generally lack a part of speech with typical determiner features such as obligatory use, competition for a specific position in the noun phrase and specialization in this function. This study uses a sample of 100 languages to investigate whether Australian languages can be said to have any kind of determiner system, and if so, what it looks like in structural terms. I show that there is structural evidence for a determiner sl…

  • Personal pronouns with determining functions in Australian languages

    Dana Louagie, Jean‐christophe Verstraete et al.ARTICLEStudies in Language2015

    This paper analyses the adnominal use of personal pronouns in a sample of 75 Australian languages. We develop two arguments. First, we argue that in all of the adnominal uses examined, the personal pronoun has a determiner-like function, showing both the functional properties and some of the behaviour of more typical determiner categories like demonstratives or articles. We support this analysis with evidence from positioning tendencies, semantic…