Papers (22)
[NOTE: The pdf’s published on this webpage are pre-final versions. Please consult the published version before citing.]
De Wit, Astrid & Laura A. Michaelis (in preparation), 'The use of progressive aspect in performative sentences in English'. [Click here for more information about the project]
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Colleman, Timothy, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans, and María Sol Sansiñena (forthcoming), 'The Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research'. Belgian Journal of Linguistics.
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Colleman, Timothy, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans, and María Sol Sansiñena (eds.) (forthcoming). Squibs in Construction Grammar: special issue Belgian Journal of Linguistics.
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De Wit, Astrid & Frank Brisard (eds.) (2020), Aspect beyond time: special issue Journal of Linguistics 56(3).
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De Wit, Astrid & Frank Brisard (2020), 'Aspect beyond time: Special issue introduction'. Journal of Linguistics [Special issue Beyond Time]. 56(3): 459-477.
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De Wit, Astrid, Peter Petré & Frank Brisard (2020), 'Standing out with the progressive'. Journal of Linguistics [Special issue Beyond Time]. 53(3): 479-514.
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Anthonissen, Lynn, Astrid De Wit & Tanja Mortelmans (2019), '(Inter)subjective uses of the Dutch progressive constructions'. Linguistics. 57(5): 1111-1159.
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De Wit, Astrid (2018), 'The semantics of the simple tenses and full-verb inversion in English: A story of shared epistemic schemas'. Constructions and Frames [Special issue on asymmetries and mismatches in Construction Grammar] 10(2): 210-233.
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De Wit, Astrid, Frank Brisard & Michael Meeuwis (2018), 'The epistemic import of aspectual constructions: The case of performatives'. Language and Cognition 10(2): 234-265.
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De Wit, Astrid (2017), ‘The expression of mirativity through aspectual constructions’. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 15(2): 385-410.
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Anthonissen, Lynn, Astrid De Wit & Tanja Mortelmans (2016), ‘Aspect meets modality: A semantic analysis of the German ‘am V sein’ construction’. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 28(1): 1-30.
De Wit, Astrid (2016), ‘The relation between aspect and inversion in English’. English Language and Linguistics 20(1): 107-128.
De Wit, Astrid & Frank Brisard (2014), ‘A Cognitive Grammar account of the semantics of the English present progressive’. Journal of Linguistics 50(1): 49-90.
De Wit, Astrid & Frank Brisard (2014), ‘Zero verb marking in Sranan'. Journal of Pidgin and Creole languages 29(1): 1-48.
De Wit, Astrid, Adeline Patard & Frank Brisard (2013), ‘A contrastive analysis of the present progressive in French and English’. Studies in Language 37(4): 846-879.
Brisard, Frank & Astrid De Wit (2013), 'Modal uses of the English present progressive'. In: Juana I. Marin-Arrese, Marta Carretero, Jorge Arús Hita, Johan van der Auwera, English Modality. Core, Periphery and Evidentiality, 201-220. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
De Wit, Astrid & Adeline Patard (2013), ‘Modality, Aspect and the Progressive. The semantics of the present progressive in French, in comparison with English’. Languages in Contrast 13(1): 113-132.
Van der Auwera, Johan, Dirk Noël & Astrid De Wit (2012), ‘The diverging need (to)'s of Asian Englishes’. In: Marianne Hundt & Ulrike Gut (eds), Mapping Unity and Diversity of New Englishes World-Wide, 54-75. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
De Wit, Astrid (2012), ‘Review: Svenja Kranich, The progressive in Modern English: A corpus-based study of grammaticalization and related changes’. Linguistics 50(1): 153-160.
De Wit, Astrid, Philippe De Brabanter, Louise-Amélie Cougnon, Timothy Colleman, Patrick Dendale, Evie Coussé (2011) (eds.), Papers of the Linguistic Society of Belgium 6.
Van der Auwera, Johan & Astrid De Wit (2011), ‘Comparative modals in English’. In: Bert Capelle & Naoaki Wada (eds.), Distinctions in English Grammar, offered to Renaat Declerck, 127-147. Tokio: Kaitakusha.
De Wit, Astrid & Frank Brisard (2009), ‘Expressions of epistemic contingency in the use of the English present progressive’. Papers of the Linguistic Society of Belgium.