Dr Dirk Noël

Tel: (852) 3917 1922
E-mail: dnoel@hkucc.hku.hk
Office: Room 739, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower (Building B, Arts), Centennial Campus

HKU Scholars Hub: http://hub.hku.hk/rp/rp01170

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Profile

Dirk Noël studied English, Dutch and linguistics at the University of Antwerp and holds a PhD in English linguistics from Ghent University. Prior to coming to HKU, he held teaching and research posts at the Antwerp School for Translation and Interpreting (HIVT) and the universities of Antwerp, Ghent and Leuven. His past research has included work on clausal complement constructions involving cognition, utterance and perception verbs, contrastive (English/French/Dutch) verb valency, bilingual lexicography, textual coherence, and the language of radio news bulletins. His current research is situated at the crossroads of cognitive linguistics (particularly construction grammar) and grammaticalization theory.

Courses taught in 2012-13:

ENGL1015     Introduction to English linguistics
ENGL2004     English syntax
ENGL2125     English construction grammar
ENGL3036     Research seminar in English linguistics

 


Publications

Selected representative publications

2012 'The Dutch evidential NCI: A case of con­structional attrition.' Journal of Historical Pragmatics 13, 1: 1-28. (with Timothy Colleman)

2012 'The diverging need (to)'s of Asian Englishes.' In Marianne Hundt & Ulrike Gut (eds.), Mapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide: Corpus-based Studies of New Englishes. Amsterdam: Ben­jamins. 55-76. (with Johan van der Auwera and Astrid De Wit)

2011 'Raising: Dutch between English and German.' Journal of Germanic Linguistics 23, 1: 1-36. (with Johan van der Auwera)

2010 'Believe-type raising-to-object and raising-to-subject verbs in English and Dutch: A contrastive investigation in diachronic construction grammar.' International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 15, 2: 157-182. (with Timothy Colleman)

2009 'Revisiting <be supposed to> from a diachronic constructionist perspective.' English Studies 90, 5: 599-623. (with Johan van der Auwera)

2009 ‘The nominative and infinitive in English and Dutch: An exercise in contrastive diachronic construction grammar.’ Languages in Contrast 9, 1: 143-180. (with T. Colleman)

2008 ‘The nominative and infinitive in Late Modern English: A diachronic constructionist approach.’ Journal of English Linguistics 36, 4: 314-340.

2007 'Diachronic construction grammar and grammaticalization theory.' Functions of Language 14, 2: 177-202.

2007 ‘Verb valency patterns, constructions and grammaticalization.’ In Th. Herbst & K. Gotz-Votteler (eds.) Valency: Theoretical, Descriptive and Cognitive Issues. (= Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs 187.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 67-83.

2006 The Contragram Dutch-French-English Contrastive Verb Valency Dictionary. Ghent: Ghent University. (with T. Colleman, B. Defrancq and F. Devos)

2004 'Revisiting the passive of infinitival perception verb complements' Studia Neophilologica 76: 12-29.

2003 'Translations as evidence for semantics: An illustration.' Linguistics 41, 4: 757-785.

2003 'Is there semantics in all syntax? The case of accusative and infinitive constructions vs. that-clauses.' In G. Rohdenburg & B. Mondorf (eds.) Determinants of Grammatical Variation in English. (=Topics in English Linguistics, 43). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 347-377.

2001 'The passive matrices of English infinitival complement clauses: Evidentials on the road to auxiliarihood?' Studies in Language 25, 2: 255-296.

1998 'Infinitival copular complement clauses in English: Explaining the predominance of passive matrix clauses.' Linguistics 36, 6: 1045-1063.

1997 'The choice between infinitives and that-clauses after believe.' English Language and Linguistics 1, 2: 271-284.

1997 'English as, French comme and Dutch als: conjunctions, prepositions or what?' In J. Aarts, I. de Monnink & H. Wekker (eds.) Studies in English Language and Teaching. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 123-140. (with A.-M. Simon-Vandenbergen)

1996 'Contrastive verb valency and conceptual structures in the verbal lexicon.' Language Sciences 18, 1-2: 319-338. (with F. Devos and B. Defrancq)

1995 'Considering bilingual dictionaries against a corpus: Do English-French dictionaries present "real English"?' Lexikos 5 (AFRILEX series 5B): 57-81. (with B. Defrancq and F. Devos)

1990 'Coherence relations and mental models.' Linguistica Antverpiensia XXIV: 149-159.

1986 Towards a Functional Characterization of the News of the BBC World Service. (= Antwerp Papers in Linguistics, 49.) Antwerp: University of Antwerp.

Editions

2004 Contrastive Analysis in Language: Identifying Linguistic Units of Comparison. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan (with D. Willems, B. Defrancq and T. Colleman)

1997 Reconnecting Language: Morphology and Syntax in Functional Perspectives. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 154.) (with A.-M. Simon-Vandenbergen and K. Davidse)

(1994-1997) Functions of Language, Volumes 1-4. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (with K. Davidse and A.-M. Simon-Vandenbergen)

(1989-1992) Occasional Papers in Systemic Linguistics, Volumes 3-6. Nottingham: Dept. of English Studies, University of Nottingham.

 


Last updated: 1 March 2013