Peter Petré

To appear a (2020). With Lynn Anthonissen (eds.). Constructionist approaches to individuality in language. Special issue of Cognitive Linguistics 31(2).
To appear b (2020). With Lynn Anthonissen. Individuality in complex systems: A constructionist approach. In Peter Petré & Lynn Anthonissen (eds.), Constructionist approaches to individuality in language, special issue of Cognitive Linguistics 31(2).
To appear c (2020). With Freek Van de Velde. Historical linguistics. In Svenja Adolphs & Dawn Knight (eds.), Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities, 328–359. London: Routledge.
To appear d (2020). With Sara Budts. Putting connections centre stage in diachronic construction grammar. In Lotte Sommerer & Elena Smirnova (eds.), Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar (Constructional Approaches to Language 27), 317–352. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
To appear e (2020). With Astrid De Wit & Frank Brisard. Standing out with the progressive. In Laura Michaelis (ed.), Beyond Time, special issue of Journal of linguistics 56(3).  
To appear f (2020). With William Standing. Exploiting convention: Lifespan change and generational incrementation in the development of cleft constructions. In Karen Beaman & Isabelle Buchstaller, Language Variation and Language Change Across the Lifespan: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives from Panel Studies (Chapter 4). New York: Routledge.
To appear g (2020). With Lynn Anthonissen. Mind-bending grammars: Language variation and change across the lifespan. Proceedings of Language in Mind and Brain. München.

2019a. With Hubert Cuyckens. Be: geen ‘has-been’ en ook geen ‘wannabe’. Karakter. Tijdschrift van Wetenschap 65. 
2019b. With Lynn Anthonissen, Sara Budts, Enrique Manjavacas, Emma-Louise Silva, William Standing & Odile A.O. Strik. Early Modern Multiloquent Authors (EMMA): Designing a large-scale corpus of individuals’ languages. ICAME journal 43. 83–122. 
2019c. With Lynn Anthonissen. Grammaticalization and the linguistic individual: new avenues in lifespan research. In Annette Gerstenberg (ed.), Language and aging, Special issue 2 of Linguistics Vanguard 5. 
2019d. How constructions are born. The role of patterns in the constructionalization of be going to INF. In Beatrix Busse & Ruth Möhlig-Falke (eds.), Patterns in language and linguistics: New Perspectives on a Ubiquitous Concept (Topics in English 104), 157–192. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

2018a. With Hubert Cuyckens & Frauke D’Hoedt (eds.), Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 343). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2018b. With Hubert Cuyckens. Introduction: Philology as linguistically informed cultural history. In Peter Petré, Hubert Cuyckens & Frauke D’Hoedt (eds.), Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 343), 1-12. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2018c. Die Rolle der Frequenz in der Grammatikalisierung: lange Passive mit by im Englischen. Sprachwissenschaft 43(2). 251-280.
2018d. With Freek Van de Velde. The real-time dynamics of the individual and the community in grammaticalization. Language 94(4). 867–901. 

2017a. With Tanja Mortelmans, Corpuslinguïstiek: Grammaticalisatie. Inleiding tot het studiegebied en een case study, In Dirk Van Hulle (ed.), Wetenschappelijk onderzoek in de Taal- en Letterkunde, 137-152. Borgerhout: Letterwerk.
2017b. With Enrique Manjavacas. Enabling Annotation of Historical Corpora in an Asynchronous Collaborative Environment. In Proceedings of DATeCH2017, Göttingen, Germany, June 01-02, 2017, 6 pages.
2017c. Connecting the past and the present – a response to Pentrel. (Cognitive approaches to the history of English). Special issue of English Language and Linguistics 21(2). 283-287.
2017d. The extravagant progressive. An experimental corpus study on the history of emphatic [be Ving]. (Cognitive approaches to the history of English). Special issue of English Language and Linguistics 21(2). 227-250.

2016a. Unidirectionality as a cycle of convention and innovation. Micro-changes in the grammaticalization of [be going to INF]. Belgian Journal of Linguistics 30. 115-146.
2016b. With Sara Budts. Reading the intentions of be going to. On the subjectification of future markers. Folia Linguistica Historica 37. 11-32. (DOI 10.1515/flih-2016-0001)
2016c. Grammaticalization by changing co-text frequencies, or why [BE Ving] became the ‘progressive’. English Language and Linguistics 20(1). 31-54.

2015a. Tolkiens Beowulf. Feit en fictie, vertelling en vertaling. Karakter 52. 11-13.
2015b. With Tinne Van Rompaey & Kristin Davidse. Lexicalization and grammaticalization: the case of the verbo-nominal expressions be on the/one’s way/road. Functions of Language 22(2). 232-263.
2015c. What grammar reveals about sex and death: interdisciplinary applications of corpus-based linguistics. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 30(3). 371-387.  
2015d. With Nikki van de Pol. Why is there a Present-day English absolute? Studies in language 39(1). 199-229.

2014a. Constructions and environments: Copular, Passive and related Constructions in Old and Middle English (Oxford Studies in the History of English 4). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2014b. With Freek Van de Velde. Tracing real-life agents’ individual progress in ongoing grammaticalization. In Luc Steels & Remi van Trijp (eds.), How Grammaticalization Processes Create Grammar (workshop held at EVOLANG10), Vienna, Austria, 14-17 April 2014). Proceedings.

2013a. Passive auxiliaries in English and German: decline versus grammaticalization of bounded language use. In Gabriele Diewald, Ilse Wischer & Leena Kahlas-Tarkka (eds.), Comparative studies in Early Germanic languages: with a focus on verbal categories (Studies in Language Companion Series, 138), 71-100. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.
2013b. On the distribution and merger of is and bið in Old and Middle English. Transactions of the Philological Society 111(3). 301-325.
2013c. The interdisciplinary potential of Digital Humanities illustrated: what syntactic analysis reveals about medieval history. Leuven Working Papers in Linguistics 12, 135-159.

2012a. History of English historical linguistics, The Netherlands and Belgium. In Alexander Bergs & Laruel Brinton (eds.), English Historical Linguistics: An international handbook (chapter 86) (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 34.2), 1341-1354. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
2012b. With Kristin Davidse & Tinne Van Rompaey. On ways of being on the way: lexical, complex preposition and aspect marker uses. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 17(2). 229-258.
2012c. General productivity: How become waxed and wax became a copula. Cognitive Linguistics 23(1). 28-65.

2011a. Over de interactie tussen constructionele en lexicale verandering. Mededelingenblad van de Leuvense Germanistenvereniging 24(1). 41-44.

2010a. The functions of weorðan and its loss in the past tense in Old and Middle English. English Language and Linguistics 14(3). 457-484.
2010b. General productivity: how become waxed and wax became a copula. Preprints of the Department of Linguistics 279. Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven.

2009a. With Hubert Cuyckens. Constructional change in Old and Middle English Copular Constructions and its impact on the lexicon. Folia Linguistica Historica 30. 311-365.

2008a. With Hubert Cuyckens. Bedusted, yet not beheaded: The role of be-’s constructional properties in its conservation. In A. Bergs & G. Diewald (eds.), Constructions and Language Change (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 194). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 133-170.
2008b. With Hubert Cuyckens. The Old English copula weorðan and its replacement in Middle English. In M. Gotti, M. Dossena & R. Dury (eds.), English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 295). Amsterdam: Benjamins. 23-48.

2006a. The prefix be-/bi- as a marker of verbs of deception in late Old and early Middle English. Preprints of the Department of Linguistics 247. Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven.
2006b. The prefix be-/bi- as a marker of verbs of deception in late Old and early Middle English. Belgian journal of English Language and Literatures (BELL), new series (4). 109-127.
2006c. With H. Cuyckens. Bedusted, yet not beheaded: The role of be-’s constructional properties in its conservation. Preprints of the Department of Linguistics 244. Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven.

2005. On the variables determining the life span of English prefix constructions. A case study of the two prefixes be- and to- (NHG zer-). MA thesis, University of Leuven. 

Reviews

2015. Book review of Constructionalization and constructional changes (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics). By Elizabeth Traugott & Graeme Trousdale. 2013. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 304. Diachronica 32(2). 284-292.

2012. Book review of Colette Moore, Quoting Speech in Early English (Studies in English Language). 2011. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521199087. 230 pp. English Text Construction 5(2). 300-306.  

2007. Book review of Adele Goldberg (2005) Constructions at work. The nature of generalization in language (Oxford: Oxford University Press). LINGUIST List 18.322 [http://linguistlist.org/issues/18/18-322.html#1].

Corpora

2018a. Petré, Peter, Lynn Anthonissen, Sara Budts, Enrique Manjavacas, William Standing & Odile A. O. Strik. Early Modern Multiloquent Authors (EMMA), release 1.0. University of Antwerp, Linguistics Department.

2013a. EEBOCorp, version 1.0 (Inhouse release 30 March 2013; lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/416330)
2013b. LEON: Leuven English Old to New, version 0.3 (Inhouse release 29 March 2013; for access please contact me; lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/396725)

2011a. With Ildiko Van Tricht. Digital edition of MS. Rawl. B.520 (Inhouse release February 2011)

2008. Corpus of MED quotations (Inhouse release 21 March 2008)