Maarten LEMMENS

Contact
Full Professor
Hauts-de-France
Assignment
  • Laboratoire Savoirs, Textes, Langage
    STL / UMR 8163
    Université de Lille
    3 Rue du Barreau
    59650 VILLENEUVE-D'ASCQ
Disciplines
Research topics
Keywords
  • Metaphor
  • cognitive linguistics
  • semantics
Types de recherche
Research activities

My research focuses on three main axes: (1) the semantics of postural verbs in English, Dutch and Swedish; (2) the typological and multimodal analysis of spatial expressions; and (3) lexical and constructional semantics (within the framework of cognitive linguistics and constructional grammar). These three axes each have their own specific method, but are linked by the framework of cognitive linguistics as well as by the fact that the descriptions have solid empirical support.

Projects
Publications

  • Mégane Lesuisse, Maarten Lemmens Looking differently at locative events: the cognitive impact of linguistic preferences. Language and Cognition, 2023, pp.1-29. ⟨10.1017/langcog.2023.59⟩

  • Maarten Lemmens. Usage-based Perspectives on Lexical and Constructional Semantics. Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press. 2021, 979-7-5446-6799-9.

  • Robin Vallery, Maarten Lemmens. The sound of taboo: Exploring a sound-meaning association in swear words of English and French. Pragmatics & Cognition, 2021, 28 (1), pp.87-137. ⟨10.1075/pc.20021.val⟩

  • Maarten Lemmens. In defense of frequency generalizations and usage-based linguistics. An answer to Frederick Newmeyer’s “Conversational corpora : when big is beautiful”. CogniTextes, 2019, 19 (Volume 19), ⟨10.4000/cognitextes.1616⟩

  • Maarten Lemmens, Kalyanamalini Sahoo. Rise and be surprised: Aspectual profiling and mirativity in Odia light verb constructions. Cognitive Linguistics, 2019, 30 (1), pp.123-164. ⟨10.1515/cog-2017-0053⟩

  • Maarten Lemmens. A Cognitive, Usage-Based View on Lexical Pragmatics: Response to Hall. In: Ilse Depraetere & Raphael Salkie. Semantics and Pragmatics: Drawing a Line, 4, Springer, pp.101-114, 2017, 978-3-319-32245-2

  • Maarten Lemmens. The semantic network of Dutch posture verbs. In: Newman, J. (éd.). The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing, and Lyin, Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins, pp. 103-139., 2002, Typological Studies in Language, 51

  • Maarten Lemmens. Lexical Perspectives on Transitivity and Ergativity. Causative Constructions in English. John Benjamins, pp.268, 1998

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Scientific networks and/or associations
  • AFLiCo (Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive)
  • ICLA (Interntional Cognitive Lingusitics Association)