Davidse, K., Meyuhnsi Njende, N., & Ghesquiere, L. (In press). Precious few and practically all: A Cognitive Grammar approach to the modification of quantifiers. Review of Cognitive Linguistics. ![]() |
Marion, J., Ghesquiere, L., & Vanderbauwhede, G. (2025). L’inter-traductibilité des adverbes DE eher, DU eerder, EN rather et FR plutôt. In E. Lavric, C. Feyrer, C. Konecny, P. Mayr, ... W. Pöckl, Lexikologie, Phraseologie, Semantik kontrastiv. Romanisch-romanisch und romanisch-deutsch (InnTraRom 2). Berlin, Germany: Frank & Timme. ![]() |
Ghesquiere, L., & Troughton, F. (13 December 2024). What a subtitle! A contrastive and parallel study of English, French and Dutch exclamatives using OpenSubtitles 2018 data [Paper presentation]. BAAHE 2024: (Trans)Portable: English in the world, Brussels, Belgium. ![]() |
Ghesquiere, L., Vanderbauwhede, G., & Copet, S. (18 June 2024). A corpus-based contrastive and translation study of EN absolutely, FR absolument and DU absoluut [Paper presentation]. Contrastive linguistics workshop at ICAME45, Vigo, Spain. ![]() |
Troughton, F., & Ghesquiere, L. (30 May 2024). What a change! On the exclamative and its translation [Paper presentation]. 10th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication (INPRA), Pisa, Italy. ![]() |
![]() ![]() | Ghesquiere, L., & Brems, L. (2024). Coming to grips with rather elusive adverbs: On English rather and French plutôt. Nordic Journal of English Studies, 32 (2), 152-176. doi:10.35360/njes.v23i2.39178 ![]() |
Marion, J., & Ghesquiere, L. (03 July 2023). On very few people and très peu de gens – translating quantity modification with English (a) few and French (un) peu [Paper presentation]. Corpus Linguistics 2023, Lancaster, United Kingdom. ![]() |
Gentens, C., Ghesquiere, L., McGregor, W. B., & Van linden, A. (2023). Introduction. Reconnecting form and meaning: Lexis and grammar from cognitive-functional and usage-based perspectives. In C. Gentens, L. Ghesquiere, W. B. McGregor, ... A. Van linden (Eds.), Reconnecting Form and Meaning: In honour of Kristin Davidse. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins. doi:10.1075/slcs.230 ![]() |
Gentens, C., Ghesquiere, L., McGregor, W. B., & Van linden, A. (Eds.). (2023). Reconnecting Form and Meaning: In honour of Kristin Davidse. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins. ![]() |
Ghesquiere, L., & Brems Lieselotte. (2023). Coming to grips with rather elusive adverbs : On EN rather and DU eerder [Paper presentation]. ICAME 44: English going places, Corpora crossing spaces, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa. ![]() |
Troughton, F., & Ghesquiere, L. (02 December 2022). I never realized how controversial it was: On the embedded exclamative [Paper presentation]. BAAHE Conference 2022: Undercurrents: Challenging the Mainstream. ![]() |
Moreau, E., Ghesquiere, L., Marion, J., Urbaniak, F., & Veys, M. (2022). English Writing Skills: Workbook. (UMONS - Université de Mons [Faculté de Traduction et d'Interprétation], Mons, Belgium). Mons, Belgium: Presses Universitaires de Mons. |
Ghesquiere, L. (2022). English Writing Skills: The Essential Grammar and Academic Writing Rules. (UMONS - Université de Mons [Faculté de Traduction et d'Interprétation], Mons, Belgium). Mons, Belgium: Presses Universitaires de Mons. |
Marion, J., Ghesquiere, L., & Vanderbauwhede, G. (01 July 2022). L'inter-traductibilité des adverbs allemande 'eher', anglais 'rather' et français 'plutôt' [Paper presentation]. 8e Colloque International 'Linguistique contrastive germano-romane et intraromane, Innsbruck, Austria. ![]() |
Ghesquiere, L. (08 April 2022). A good deal of change: On the development of degree and quantity modification [Paper presentation]. The Role of Pragmatics in Language Change, Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark. ![]() |
![]() ![]() | Marion, J., Ghesquiere, L., & Vanderbauwhede, G. (2022). L’inter-traductibilité des adverbes allemand eher, anglais rather et français plutôt [Paper presentation]. IXe Colloque International « Linguistique contrastive germano-romane et intraromane », Innsbruck, Austria. |
Ghesquiere, L. (09 September 2021). A contrastive study of EN 'such' and FR 'tel' [Paper presentation]. Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (6th edition), Université de Bologne (Bertinoro University Residential Centre), Italy. |
Ghesquiere, L., & Vanderbauwhede, G. (09 September 2021). A contrastive study English finally/eventually, Dutch eindelijk/uiteindelijk and French finalement/enfin [Paper presentation]. Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (6th edition), Université de Bologne (Bertinoro University Residential Centre), Italy. |
Ghesquiere, L., & Troughton, F. (2021). What a Change! A Diachronic Study of Exclamative what Constructions. Journal of English Linguistics. ![]() |
Ghesquiere, L. (2021). A Good Deal of Intensity: On the Development of Degree and Quantity Modifier Good. Journal of English Linguistics. ![]() |
Brems, L., Ghesquiere, L., & Vanderbauwhede, G. (2020). A rather interesting topic: A contrastive study of English 'rather', Dutch 'eerder' and French 'plutôt'. In Translating and ComparingLanguages: Corpus-based Insights. Corpora and Language in Use Proceedings (pp. 215-235). Presses Universitaires de Louvain. |
Ghesquiere, L. (2020). English Writing Skills: The Essential Grammar and Academic Writing Rules. |
Ghesquiere, L. (2020). Functional Text Analysis: A Guide for Students. |
Ghesquiere, L. (2019). English Writing Skills: The Essental Grammar and Academic Writing Rules. |
Ghesquiere, L. (2019). Functional Text Analysis: A Guide for Students. |
Ghesquiere, L. (09 September 2019). Expressive Meaning Playing the NP Field [Paper presentation]. Functional categories and expressive meaning, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. |
Davidse, K., Ghesquiere, L., & Meyuhnsi Njende, N. (30 November 2018). Pursuing the analogy between quality and quantity modification [Paper presentation]. BAAHE 2018 Conference 'Intensity', Mons, Belgium. |
Brems, L., Ghesquiere, L., & Vanderbauwhede, G. (12 September 2018). A rather interesting topic: A contrastive study of English rather, Dutch eerder and French plutôt [Paper presentation]. Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (5th edition), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. |
Ghesquiere, L., & Troughton, F. (28 August 2018). What a change: A diachronic study of exclamative 'what' constructions [Paper presentation]. 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. |
Ghesquiere, L., & Meyuhnsi Njende, N. (27 August 2018). A good number of observations:On quantity modification [Paper presentation]. 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. |
Ghesquiere, L. (2017). Intensification and focusing: The case of 'pure(ly)' and 'mere(ly)'. In Exploring intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives (pp. 33-53). John Benjamins Publishing Company. |
Meyuhnsi Njende, N., Davidse, K., & Ghesquiere, L. (21 September 2017). Precious few and practically all : A Cognitive Grammar approach to the modification of quantifiers. Leuven Working Papers in Linguistics, 6 (34), 34-64. |
Ghesquiere, L., & Brems, L. (24 May 2017). Time, preference and intensity: A contrastive study of 'rather (than)' and 'eerder (dan)' [Paper presentation]. ICAME 38 (International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English 38), Prague, Czechia. |
Troughton, F., & Ghesquiere, L. (24 May 2017). What a transformation! On what's development from identity to degree [Paper presentation]. ICAME 38 (International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English 38), Prague, Czechia. |
Van Olmen, D., Cuyckens, H., Ghesquiere, L., Van Olmen, D. (Ed.), Cuyckens, H. (Ed.), & Ghesquiere, L. (Ed.). (2017). Aspects of grammaticalization: (Inter)subjectification and directionality. De Gruyter Mouton. |
Cuyckens, H., Ghesquiere, L., & Van Olmen, D. (2017). Introduction: Aspects of grammaticalization. In D. Van Olmen, H. Cuyckens, L. Ghesquiere, D. Van Olmen (Ed.), H. Cuyckens (Ed.), ... L. Ghesquiere (Ed.), Aspects of Grammaticalization: (Inter)Subjectification and Directionality (pp. 1-17). De Gruyter Mouton. |
Ghesquiere, L., Davidse, K., Meyuhnsi Njende, N., & Breban, T. (18 September 2016). Degree and quantity modification: The diachronic development of 'very' and 'whole' [Paper presentation]. 4th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 4), Poznan, Poland. |
![]() ![]() | Davidse, K.* , & Ghesquiere, L.*. (02 January 2016). Content-purport, content-substance and structure: focusing mere and merely. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 48 (1), 85 - 109. doi:10.1080/03740463.2016.1145930 ![]() * These authors have contributed equally to this work. |
Ghesquiere, L. (05 November 2015). Intensification and focusing: The case of 'pure(ly)' and 'mere(ly)' [Paper presentation]. Intensity, Intensification and Intensifying Modification Across Languages, Vercelli, Italy. |
Meyuhnsi Njende, N., Davidse, K., & Ghesquiere, L. (02 September 2015). Re-assessing the absolute quantification restriction in existential constructions [Paper presentation]. 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 48), Leiden, Netherlands. |
Ghesquiere, L. (27 May 2015). On the focusing adverbs purely and merely and their adjectival counterparts [Paper presentation]. ICAME 36 (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English), Trier, Germany. |
Meyuhnsi Njende, N., Ghesquiere, L., & Davidse, K. (27 May 2015). Precious few and practically all: the modification of absolute and relative quantifiers [Poster presentation]. ICAME 36 (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English), Trier, Germany. |
Ghesquiere, L., & Davidse, K. (27 February 2015). A Hjelmslevian take on structure and substance: focusing mere and merely [Paper presentation]. Substance and Structure in Language, Copenhagen, Denmark. |
Van de Velde, F., De Smet, H., Ghesquiere, L., Trousdale, G., Fischer, O., Gaeta, L., Drinka, B., Riionheimo, H., Joseph, B. D., De Smet, H. (Ed.), Ghesquiere, L. (Ed.), & Van de Velde, F. (Ed.). (2015). On multiple source constructions in language change. John Benjamins Publishing Company. |
Van de Velde, F., De Smet, H., & Ghesquiere, L. (2015). Multiple source constructions in language change. In F. Van de Velde, H. De Smet, L. Ghesquiere, G. Trousdale, O. Fischer, L. Gaeta, B. Drinka, H. Riionheimo, B. D. Joseph, H. De Smet (Ed.), L. Ghesquiere (Ed.), ... F. Van de Velde (Ed.), On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change (pp. 1-17). John Benjamins Publishing Company. |
![]() ![]() | Ghesquiere, L. (13 November 2014). 10. Ghesquière, Lobke. 2014. The directionality of (inter)subjectification in the English noun phrase: Pathways of change. English and American Studies in German, 2014 (1), 23-27. doi:10.1515/east-2014-0012 ![]() |
Ghesquiere, L. (2014). The directionality of (inter)subjectification in the English noun phrase: Pathways of change. De Gruyter Mouton. |
Ghesquiere, L. (14 July 2014). On the relation between degree modifying and focusing adjective uses: The case of sure and true [Paper presentation]. ICEHL 18 (18th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics), Leuven, Belgium. |
Davidse, K., Vandelanotte, L., Gentens, C., & Ghesquiere, L. (2014). Interrogating corpora to describe grammatical patterns. In K. Davidse, C. Gentens, L. Ghesquiere, ... L. Vandelanotte, Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns (pp. 1-11). John Benjamins Publishing Company. ![]() |
Ghesquiere, L., Brems, L., & Van de Velde, F. (2014). Intersubjectivity and intersubjectification: Typology and operationalization. In L. Brems, L. Ghesquiere, ... F. Van de Velde, Intersubjectivity and intersubjectification in grammar and discourse: Theoretical and descriptive advances (pp. 129-153). John Benjamins Publishing Company. ![]() |
Davidse, K., Gentens, C., Ghesquiere, L., Vandelanotte, L., Ronan, P., Diemer, S., Markus, M., Elsness, J., Van Hattum, M., Rohdenburg, G., Blanco-Suárez, Z., Maier, G., Rudanko, J., Rickman, P., Höglund, M., van de Pol, N., Cuyckens, H., Hasselgard, H., Kimps, D., ... Vandelanotte, L. (Ed.). (2014). Corpus interrogation and grammatical patterns. John Benjamins Publishing Company. |
Brems, L., Ghesquiere, L., Van de Velde, F., Traugott, E. C., Narrog, H., Nuyts, J., Thompson, G., Adel, A., Brems, L. (Ed.), Ghesquiere, L. (Ed.), & Van de Velde, F. (Ed.). (2014). Intersubjectivity and intersubjectification in grammar and discourse: Theoretical and descriptive advances. John Benjamins Publishing Company. |
Brems, L., Ghesquiere, L., & Van de Velde, F. (2014). Intersections of intersubjectivity. In L. Brems, L. Ghesquiere, ... F. Van de Velde, Intersubjectivity and intersubjectification in grammar and discourse: Theoretical and descriptive advances. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ![]() |
De Smet, H., Ghesquiere, L., & Van de Velde, F. (Eds.). (2013). On multiple source constructions in language change. Studies in Language. ![]() |
![]() ![]() | Van de Velde, F., De Smet, H., & Ghesquiere, L. (01 January 2013). Multiple source constructions in language change. Studies in Language, 37 (3), 473-489. ![]() |
Ghesquiere, L., Van linden, A., & Davidse, K. (01 January 2013). Subjective Compounds and subjectivity/subjectification in the English noun phrase. English Studies, 94 (1), 90-117. ![]() |
Ghesquiere, L. (29 August 2012). Neglected dimensions of noun-intensification [Paper presentation]. SLE 45 (Societas Linguistica Europaea), Stockholm, Sweden. |
Ghesquiere, L. (16 July 2012). Noun-intensification as subjectification and grammaticalization [Paper presentation]. New Reflections on Grammaticalization 5 (NRG5), Edinburgh, United Kingdom. |
Ghesquiere, L., Brems, L., & Van de Velde, F. (16 July 2012). Intersubjectivity and intersubjectification: Typology and operationalization [Paper presentation]. New Reflections on Grammaticalization 5 (NRG5), Edinburgh, United Kingdom. |
Ghesquiere, L. (30 May 2012). On the development of noun-intensifying 'quite' [Paper presentation]. ICAME 33 (International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English 33), Leuven, Belgium. |
Ghesquiere, L. (01 January 2012). Identifying and intensifying uses of prenominal such: a data-based approach. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 17 (4), 516-545. ![]() |
Brems, L., Ghesquiere, L., & Van de Velde, F. (01 January 2012). Introduction: Intersections of intersubjectivity. English Text Construction, 5 (1), 1-6. ![]() |
Ghesquiere, L., Brems, L., & Van de Velde, F. (01 January 2012). Intersubjectivity and intersubjectification: Typology and operationalization. English Text Construction, 5 (1), 128-152. ![]() |
Brems, L., Ghesquiere, L., & Van de Velde, F. (Eds.). (2012). Intersections of intersubjectivity. English Text Construction. ![]() |
Ghesquiere, L. (2011). The directionality of (inter)subjectification processes in the English noun phrase: Pathways of change [Doctoral thesis, Université de Mons]. ORBi UMONS-University of Mons. https://orbi.umons.ac.be/handle/20.500.12907/37821 |
Ghesquiere, L., & Davidse, K. (01 July 2011). The development of intensification scales in noun-intensifying uses of adjectives: sources, paths and mechanisms of change. English Language and Linguistics, 15 (2), 251-277. ![]() |
Breban, T., Davidse, K., & Ghesquiere, L. (01 January 2011). A typology of anaphoric and cataphoric relations expressed by English complex determiners. Journal of Pragmatics, 43 (11), 2689-2703. ![]() |
Ghesquiere, L., & Van de Velde, F. (01 January 2011). A corpus-based account of the development of English such and Dutch zulk: identification, intensification and (inter)subjectification. Cognitive Linguistics, 22 (4), 765-797. ![]() |
De Smet, H., & Ghesquiere, L. (11 November 2010). When grammaticalization hesitates [Paper presentation]. International Conference on Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification, Bruxelles, Belgium. |
Van de Velde, F., Ghesquiere, L., & De Smet, H. (02 September 2010). Multiple source constructions in language change [Paper presentation]. 43rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 43), Vilnius, Lithuania. |
Ghesquiere, L. (26 May 2010). Interrogative and exclamative 'what': Similarities and differences [Paper presentation]. ICAME 30 (International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English 30), Giessen, Germany. |
Ghesquiere, L. (2010). On the subjectification and intersubjectification paths followed by the adjectives of completeness. In K. Davidse, L. Vandelanotte, ... H. Cuyckens (Eds.), Subjectification, intersubjectification, and grammaticalization (pp. 277-314). De Gruyter Mouton. |
Ghesquiere, L., & Davidse, K. (02 October 2009). The development of emphasizing uses by adjectives: Source constructions and scales [Paper presentation]. 1st Vigo-Newcastle-Santiago-Leuven International Workshop on the Structure of the Noun Phrase in English (NP1), Vigo, Spain. |
Ghesquiere, L., & Van de Velde, F. (10 August 2009). On the development of determining and emphasizing uses of 'such' and 'zulk' [Paper presentation]. 19th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 19), Nijmegen, Netherlands. |
Ghesquiere, L. (27 May 2009). A time for such a word: Determining & emphasizing uses of 'such' [Paper presentation]. ICAME 30 (International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English 30), Lancaster, United Kingdom. |
Ghesquiere, L. (30 April 2009). A time for such a word: The development of determining & emphasizing uses of 'such' [Paper presentation]. FGLS 8 - GLAC 15 - SHEL 6, Banff, Canada. |
Ghesquiere, L. (01 January 2009). From determining to emphasizing meanings: the adjectives of specificity. Folia Linguistica, 43 (2), 311-343. ![]() |
Ghesquiere, L. (08 October 2008). (Inter)subjectification: the 'complete' and 'whole' story [Paper presentation]. 1st Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 1), Freiburg, Germany. |
Ghesquiere, L., & Davidse, K. (17 September 2008). Comparing the paths of change of 'complete' and 'particular' [Paper presentation]. 41st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 41), Forlí, Spain. |
Ghesquiere, L. (16 July 2008). Clines of grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification in the prenominal string of the English NP [Paper presentation]. New Reflections on Grammaticalization 4 (NRG4), Leuven, Belgium. |
Ghesquiere, L. (14 May 2008). The unidirectionality of (inter)subjectification?: The case of prenominal 'complete', 'total' and 'whole' [Poster presentation]. ICAME 29 (International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English 29), Ascona, Switzerland. |
Ghesquiere, L. (10 May 2008). (Inter)subjectification in the English NP: The case of 'particular' and 'specific' [Paper presentation]. First ELC International Postgraduate Conference, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. |
Ghesquiere, L. (2007). The diachronic development of the different prenominal adjectival uses of 'complete', 'total' and 'whole' [Master’s dissertation, Université de Mons]. ORBi UMONS-University of Mons. https://orbi.umons.ac.be/handle/20.500.12907/37093 |
Ghesquiere, L., Jonkers, S., & Wynant, P. (2007). Studie naar het taalgebruik en et omgaan met meertaligheid in de Nederlandstalige sportclubs in de Vlaamse Rand. https://orbi.umons.ac.be/handle/20.500.12907/36373 |
Ghesquiere, L. (2006). The complete fool and the little old lady: A synchronic and diachronic study of the prenominal adjectives 'old', 'little' and 'complete' [Master’s dissertation, Université de Mons]. ORBi UMONS-University of Mons. https://orbi.umons.ac.be/handle/20.500.12907/27644 |