'The grammaticalisation and semantic range of the Dutch krijgen-passive'. Workshop on Valency and Grammaticalisation, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, 14-15/05/2012 (outline, references).Selected Publications
(If you are interested in any of these, I will be happy to send you a pdf copy on simple request.)
Timothy Colleman & Bernard De Clerck(2011), 'Constructional Semantics on the Move: On Semantic Specialization in the English Double Object Construction'. Cognitive Linguistics 22: 183-209.
Timothy Colleman (2010), 'Beyond the dative alternation: the semantics of the Dutch aan-dative'. Dylan Glynn & Kerstin Fischer (Eds.), Quantitative Methods in Cognitive Semantics: Corpus-driven Approaches. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 271-303.
Timothy Colleman (2010), 'Lectal variation in Constructional Semantics: Benefactive ditransitives in Dutch'. Dirk Geeraerts, Gitte Kristiansen & Yves Peirsman (Eds.), Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 191-221.
Dirk Noël & Timothy Colleman (2010), 'ACI verbs and NCI verbs in English and Dutch. A contrastive diachronic construction grammatical investigation'. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 15, 157-182.
Timothy Colleman (2010), 'The benefactive semantic potential of 'caused reception' constructions'. A case study of English, French, German, and Dutch'. Fernando Zúniga & Seppo Kittilä (Eds.), Benefactives and malefactives. Case studies and typological perspectives (Typological Studies in Language 92), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 219-243.
Timothy Colleman, Bernard De Clerck & Magda Devos (2010), 'Prepositional dative constructions in English and Dutch. A contrastive semantic analysis'. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 111: 129-150.
Timothy Colleman & Dirk Noël (2009), 'Gezegd worden + te-infinitief: Een verouderde evidentiële constructie.' Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 125, 385-403.
Timothy Colleman (2009), 'The semantic range of the Dutch double object construction: A collostructional perspective'.Constructions and Frames 1: 190-221.
Timothy Colleman & Bernard De Clerck (2009), ''Caused Motion?' The semantics of the English to-dative and the Dutch aan-dative'. Cognitive Linguistics 20: 5-42.
Timothy Colleman (2009), 'Verb disposition in argument structure alternations. A corpus study of the Dutch dative alternation', Language Sciences 31: 593-611.
Dirk Noël & Timothy Colleman (2009), 'The nominative and infinitive in English and Dutch. An exercise in contrastive diachronic construction grammar'. Languages in Contrast 9: 144-181.
Timothy Colleman & Bernard De Clerck (2008), 'Accounting for ditransitives with envy and forgive'. Functions of Language 15: 187-215.
Timothy Colleman (2007), ‘Ik zie hem morgen (te) komen. Een “echte” accusativus-cum-infinitivo met zien’, Taal en Tongval 59: 3-29. (full-text)
Timothy Colleman (2006), De Nederlandse datiefalternantie. Een constructioneel en corpusgebaseerd onderzoek. Unpublished Ph. D. dissertation, Ghent University. (full-text in Dutch: Inhoud, Hoofdstuk 1, Hoofdstuk 2, Hoofdstuk 3, Hoofdstuk 4, Hoofdstuk 5, Hoofdstuk 6, Hoofdstuk 7, Hoofdstuk 8, Bibliografie)
Martine Delorge & Timothy Colleman (2006), ‘Constructions with verbs of dispossession in Dutch: A corpus-based case study’. Papers of the linguistic society of Belgium, Vol. 1.
Timothy Colleman (2005), ‘On representing verb complementation patterns in dictionaries: The approach of the CVVD’. In: H. Gottlieb, J.E. Mogensen & A. Zettersten (eds), Symposium on Lexicography XI. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium on Lexicography May 2-4, 2002 at the University of Copenhagen (Lexicographica Series Maior 115). Tübingen: Niemeyer, 183-193. (full-text)
Dominique Willems, Bart Defrancq, Timothy Colleman & Dirk Noël (eds) (2004), Contrastive Analysis in Language: Identifying Linguistic Units of Comparison. Houndmills: Palgrave MacMillan.
Timothy Colleman & Gunther De Vogelaer (2003), ‘De benefactiefconstructie in de zuidelijk-Nederlandse dialecten’. In: S. Barbiers, M. Devos & G. De Schutter (eds), Dialectsyntaxis in bloei (Taal en Tongval theme issue 15-16), 184-208. (full-text)
Timothy Colleman (2002), ‘De benefactieve dubbelobject-constructie in het 19de-eeuws Nederlands’. In: R. Willemyns (ed.), De taal in Vlaanderen in de 19de eeuw. Historisch-sociolinguïstische onderzoekingen (theme issue Verslagen en mededelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, 111), 509-528. (full-text)
Timothy Colleman (2001), ‘Waermet nu meest elck Rymer soo pronckelyc pracht. Antieke goden als sprekende personages op het rederijkerstoneel’, Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Soevereine Hoofdkamer van Retorica "de Fonteine" te Gent, 41/42: 95-132. (full-text)
Timothy Colleman (2000), ‘Zullen, gaan of presens? Een verkennend corpusonderzoek naar de toekomstaanduiders in het (Belgische Nederlands)’. In: M. Devos, V. De Tier, J. van Keymeulen (eds), Nochtans was scherp van zin. Een bundel artikelen aangeboden aan Hugo Ryckeboer voor zijn 65ste verjaardag. Vakgroep Nederlandse taalkunde: Gent, 2000, 51-64. (full-text)
(with Dirk Noël) 'Contrastive diachronic construction grammar at work: Tracing the history of the Dutch deontic NCI'. 12th Conference of the International Pragmatics Association, University of Manchester, 3-8 July 2011 (outline, references).
'Ditransitive verbs and ditransitive constructions. A diachronic perspective'. Workshop on 'Argument Structure in Valency Theory and Construction Grammar', University of Hamburg, 01/04/2011. (outline, references).
'The (expanding?) constructional semantics of the krijgen-passive'. Leiden/Gent workshop on 'The CxG of Dutch', University of Leiden, 25-26/03/2011. (outline).
'Double Object Construction in English, Dutch, and German'. 3d "A Germanic Sandich" conference, University of Oldenburg, 17-18/09/2010.
(outline, references).
'Benefactive double object constructions in English and Dutch, past and present'. Sixth International Conference on Construction Grammar, Charles University Prague, 02-05/09/2010.
(outline, references).
‘Semantic specialization and present-day lectal variation in the Dutch double object construction.
Workshop on 'Variation and Change in Argument Realization', Naples/Capri, 27-30/05/2010 (outline).
(with Bernard De Clerck) ‘From noun to intensifier: Massa's in Flemish varieties of Dutch'.
International Conference on 'Current Trends in Grammaticalization Research', University of Groningen, 15-18/09/2009.
(with Bernard De Clerck) ‘The polysemy of the English ditransitive construction: a diachronic account’.
First Triennial Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE), University of Freiburg, 08-11/10/2008. In theme section organised by Graeme Trousdale and Thomas Hoffmann on 'Constructions and Language Change'.
(abstract,
outline)
‘Variation and change in constructional semantics'. Fifth International Conference on Construction Grammar, University of Texas at Austin, 26-28/09/2008.
(abstract,
outline)
(with Dirk Noël) ‘The constructional status of nominative-and-infinitives in Dutch'.
Fifth International Conference on Construction Grammar, University of Texas at Austin, 26-28/09/2008.
(abstract,
outline)
‘The ditransitive constructions of Dutch’.
International Conference on Ditransitive Constructions, Max Planck
Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, 23-25/11/2007.
(abstract,
outline)
‘On benefactive ditransitives in English, Dutch,
German, and French’. Workshop on the typology of benefactives and
malefactives. Universität Zürich, 25-26/10/2007. (abstract)
'Dutch ditransitives and the benefactive/malefactive
opposition'. Workshop on the typology of benefactives and malefactives.
Universität Zürich, 25-26/10/2007, in co-operation with Willy Vandeweghe.
(abstract)
‘A diachronic study of constructional semantics:
the ditransitive in English and Dutch’. 18th International Conference on
Historical Linguistics, Université de Québec à Montréal, 06-11/08/2007.
(outline)
‘Lectal variation in constructional semantics:
‘benefactive’ ditransitives in Dutch’. 10th International Cognitive
Linguistics Conference, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 15-20/07/2007).
In theme section organised by Dirk Geeraerts, Gitte Kristiansen & Yves
Peirsman on ‘Cognitive Sociolinguistics’. (abstract)
‘Beyond the Dative Alternation: the semantics of
the Dutch prepositional dative’. 10th International Cognitive
Linguistics Conference, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 15-20/07/2007.
In theme section organised by Dylan Glynn and Kerstin Fischer on
‘Corpus-driven Cognitive Semantics’. (abstract)
T. Colleman, ‘Verb disposition in the Dutch dative
alternation’. 5th International Conference of the AELCO/SCOLA.
Universidad de Murcia, 19-21/10/2006. (abstract)
‘Central and less-central subsenses of the Dutch
ditransitive. Evidence from a collostructional analysis’, Ninth
International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Korea, Yonsei University,
17-22/7/2005). In theme section organised by Anatol Stefanowitch &
Stefan Gries, ‘Language system and language use: Corpus-based approaches’.
(abstract)
‘Constructional Polysemy and benefactive
ditransitives in Dutch’. Third International Conference on Construction
Grammars, Marseille, Université de Provence, 7-10/7/2004. (abstract)
‘Cognitivist accounts of the Dative Alternation: a
critical evaluation of some recurring ideas’. Eighth International
Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Logroño, Universidad de la Rioja,
20-25/7/2003. (handout)
‘Ditransitives and Null Instantiation in English
and Dutch’. Second International Contrastive Linguistics Conference.
University of Santiago de Compostela, 25-27/10/2001.
Some manuscript versions of recently
submitted papers:
(with Bernard De Clerck), 'Constructional semantics on the move: A diachronic view on the semantics of the English double object construction'. (Draft of January 2010)
(with Sarah Bernolet), 'Alternation biases in corpora vs. picture description experiments: DO-biased verbs and aan-biased verbs in the Dutch dative alternation'. (Draft
of November 2009)
Other projects I'm working on (or which are simmering on
the backburner) include:
a detailed corpus investigation of
the semantic range of selected Dutch three-place constructions in earlier
stages of Modern Dutch
an exploration of the specific (semantic)
properties of passive ditransitives
in co-operation with Dirk Noël: an
investigation of the development of ACI/NCI-constructions and complex-transitive constructions in English
and Dutch, from a diachronic construction grammatical perspective
in co-operation with Bernard De
Clerck, Dominique Willems and other members of CONTRAGRAM: a series of
contrastive studies of constructions with 'provide'-type verbs in
English, French, Dutch and other languages
an investigation of the specific properties of ditransitive particle verbs in Dutch, inspired by work by Geert Booij and Corrien Blom
an investigation of complex clause constructions with an indirect object in the matrix clause, inspired by work by Arie Verhagen
a series of popularizing articles
on lexical innovations in the (Belgian) Dutch football language
a book on ditransitive constructions in Dutch