Publications

Forthcoming

• Elens, Wannes, Joren Somers, Gard B. Jenset & Jóhanna Barðdal. To like or to please, that is the question: The (non-)alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat status of Old Norse-Icelandic líka and Old English lician ‘like. Submitted.
• Somers, Joren, Anna Jessen, Jóhanna Barðdal & Robert J. Hartsuiker. Argument structure as a locus of non-syntactic structural priming: A study of the Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat alternation in German. Submitted.
• Van den Heede, Margot & Peter Lauwers. The semantic structuring of minimizing constructions in present-day Netherlandic Dutch: A distribution-based cluster analysis. Nederlandse Taalkunde.
• Van Hulle, Sven, Renata Enghels & Peter Lauwers. The many guises of productivity: a case-study of Spanish inchoative constructions. Linguistics.

2026

• Barðdal, Jóhanna, Renata Enghels, Quentin Feltgen, Sven Van Hulle & Peter Lauwers. Productivity in Diachrony. Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic Linguistics, ed. by Adam Ledgeway, Edith Aldridge, Anne Breitbarth, Katalin É Kiss, Joseph Salmons & Alexandra Simonenko. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. (in press)
• Barðdal, Jóhanna & Catrine Sandal. Dependent-Marked Anticausatives in Old Norse-Icelandic: Modeling Productive vs. Unproductive Alternations. Functions of Language 33(3). (in press)

2025

• Somers, Joren, Torsten Leuschner, Ludovic De Cuypere & Jóhanna Barðdal. A corpus-Based Analysis of the Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat Alternation in German. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 44(2): Article 3.

2024

• Elens, Wannes, Joren Somers & J´óhanna Barðdal. The Alternating Behavior of the Verb ’Like’ in Old-Norse-Icelandic: Facts or Fiction? Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 110: 1–13.
• Lauwers, Peter. La productivité syntaxique à l’aune de la sémantique distributionnelle. SHS Web of Conferences, Volume 191, 2024, 9^e Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française.
• Somers, Joren. 2024. Alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat verbs in German and Icelandic: A corpus study. Ghent University PhD Dissertation.
• Somers, Joren, Gard B. Jenset & Jóhanna Barðdal. Argument Structure Constructions in Competition: The Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat Alternation in Icelandic. Nordic Journal of Linguistics. online-first version.
• Somers, Joren, Gard B. Jenset & Jóhanna Barðdal. Subjecthood and Argument Structure of Synonymous Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat Verbs across German and Icelandic. Lingua 312: 103833.

2023

• Somers, Joren. Linearization and Unaccusativity: The Relative Order of Dative and Nominative Arguments with Five German Verbs of Success and Failure. Papers of the Linguistic Society of Belgium 17: 54–75.
• Somers, Joren. Oblieke subjecten in het Nederlands? De casus wachten. Nederlandse Taalkunde 28(3): 350–364.
• Somers, Joren & Jóhanna Barðdal. Comparing the Argument Structure of Alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat Predicates in German and Icelandic. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 108: 1–25.
• Van den Heede, Margot & Peter Lauwers. Syntactic productivity under the microscope: The lexical and semantic openness of Dutch minimizing constructions. Folia Linguistica 57(3): 723–761.

2022

• Somers, Joren & Jóhanna Barðdal. Alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat verbs in Icelandic: An Exploratory Corpus-Based Analysis. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 107: 83–110.

2021

• Lauwers, Peter & Anais Vajnovszki. 2021. Ces Histoires d’attributs Antéposés : Les Leçons de l’approche Constructionnelle. Langue française  209: 23–40.
• Somers, Joren. Onpersoonlijke datief-nominatiefwerkwoorden in het hedendaagse Duits: Definitie, inventaris en semantische classificatie. Handelingen van de Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij Voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis 75: 211–238.
• Van den Heede, Margot & Peter Lauwers. Het interesseert me geen ene je-weet-wel – Minimaliserende strategieën in het hedendaagse Nederlandse Nederlands. Handelingen van de Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis 75(1): 239–259.
• Van Hulle, Sven & Renata Enghels. De Spaanse inchoatiefconstructie in beeld: Clusteranalyse als antwoord op het quasi-synonymie vraagstuk. Handelingen van de Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij Voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis 75: 277–305.