Répertoire du personnel administratif et enseignant

Patrick Duffley

Professeur titulaire

Département de langues, linguistique et traduction

418 656-2131, poste 405703

patrick.duffley@lli.ulaval.ca

Pavillon Charles-De Koninck Local 3317A

Professeurs du Département Professeurs de la Faculté

Enseignement

English morphology and syntax
Psychomechanics of language
ESL

Recherche

Projets de recherche subventionnés

Compound Verbs and Verbal Complementation: the Specification of Tense and Control in the Verb Phrase in English, SSHRC, 1998-2001: 55 990$
Functional Distinctions in English Non-Finite Verb Complementation and their Semantic Consequences, SSHRC, 1994-1997: 32 000$
Operational Syntax of the English Verb: Compound verbs and Verbal Complementation (with W. Hirtle), SSHRC, 1992-1994: 46 300$
Le syntagme verbal en anglais: auxiliaires modaux + infinitif, FCAR-Nouveaux chercheurs, 1991-1994: 39 000$
La psychomécanique du langage et la grammaire anglaise, FCAR-Équipes, 1988-1991: 73 500$

Publications

Duffley, Patrick J. & Gabrielle Morin. 2022. It’s been a while since I’ve been to church: The use of the Present Perfect after the conjunction since. Australian Journal of Linguistics 42: 184-205.

Duffley, Patrick J. & Ryan Fisher. 2021. To-infinitive and gerund-participle clauses with the verbs dread and fear.
Studia Linguistica 75(1):1-25.

Duffley, Patrick J. 2021 Logical Form: Not logical enough for logic, not linguistic enough for linguistics. Journal of Pragmatics 182: 163-175.

Duffley, Patrick J. 2020 La psychomécanique du langage. In Combats pour la linguistique au Québec (1960-2000). Courants, théories, domaines. Bruxelles: Peter Lang, pp. 29-56.

Duffley, Patrick J. & Pierre Larrivée. 2020 Whatever floats your boat A corpus-based investigation of definiteness, quantification, modality, presuppositional content, scalarity and epistemic stance with wh-ever words. International Review of Pragmatics 12: 206-245.

Duffley, Patrick J. 2020 Clause structure, complements, and adjuncts. In The Oxford Handbook of English Grammar. Bas Aarts, Jill Bowie & Gergana Popova (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 358-374.

Duffley, Patrick J. 2020. “Les emplois modaux des verbes need et dare en anglais : conséquences morphosyntaxiques de la mise en cause d’une présupposition pragmatique associée à un certain type de contenu sémantique”

Duffley, Patrick J. & Ryan Fisher.2019 A cognitive-semantic study of verbal complementation with adjectives expressing the emotion of fear in Canadian English, Cognitive Semantics 5: 121-146.

Duffley, Patrick J. 2019 A relevance-theoretical perpective on the question of why Jesus never wrote a book, Word 65: 154-163.

Duffley, Patrick J. 2019 Must/need, may/can and the scope of the modal auxiliary: May thee know the pitfalls of thy paraphrases!, Studies in Language 43: 499-532.

Duffley, Patrick J. 2019 What’s on your mind is not on your brain – hopefully, Odisea 20: 65-73.

Duffley, Patrick J. 2019 Two opposing views of the same event: an analysis of the underlying topoi, argumentative structures and use of modality in two Canadian editorials. In Lengua, cultura, discurso. Estudios ofrecidos al profesor Manuel Casado Velarde. Ramón González Ruiz, Inés Olza Moreno & Óscar Loureda Lamas (eds.). Navarra: Ediciones Universidad de Navarra, SA, pp. 909-922.

Duffley, Patrick J. 2018. The cognitive structure of full-verb inversion and existential structures in English, Cognitive Semantics 4: 184-229

Duffley, Patrick J. et Pierre Larrivée. 2018. La montée du sujet/objet et le contrôle par le sujet/objet dans les constructions ‘adjectif + à + infinitif’ : une explication sémantico-pragmatique. In Quand les formes prennent sens. Grammaire, prépositions, constructions, système. Céline Vaguer-Fekete (éd.). Limoges : Éditions Lambert-Lucas, pp. 319-330.

Duffley, Patrick J. 2018.“Dieu, le diable et le défigement”, Langues et linguistique 37: 82-105.

Duffley, Patrick J. 2018. Talk into vs convince to: talking as a cause leading to containment, convincing as a cause leading to a result. In Changing Structures: Studies in constructions and complementation. Mark Kaunisto, Mikko Höglund and Paul Rickman (éds), pp. 13-30.

Kiyofon, Antoine & Patrick J. Duffley. 2017. Semantically-Based Functions of Noun-Class Markers in Tagbana, Cognitive Linguistics 28 (1): 131-154.

Duffley, Patrick J. & Larrivée Pierre (2015) Fresh Look at Compatibility ANY & Veridical Contexts (PDF, 408 Ko), Lingua: ScienceDirect

Duffley, Patrick J. (2016) The role of DO auxiliary in subject-auxiliary inversion (PDF, 2,1 Mo), Cognitive Linguistics 2016; De Gruyter Mouton.

Duffley, Patrick J. (2014) Reclaiming Control as a Semantic and Pragmatic Phenomenon, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Duffley, Patrick J. & Fisher, Ryan (2014) The Grammar Guru, Toronto: Nelson Education.

Duffley, Patrick J. & Larrivée, P. (2014) The emergence of implicit meaning: Scalar implicatures with some. International Journal of Corpus Linguisitics 19: 526-544.

Duffley, P. 2014. Why Epistemic May is rare in Questions and Epistemic Can in Statements: a Problem for the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface. In J. I. Marín-Arrese, & J. R. Zamorano-Mansilla (eds.), Selected Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Modality in English Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing , 77-88.

Duffley, P. 2013. Craving face: the debate over the Islamic veil in Quebec as reflected by the discourse of the three major political parties. In I. Olza, Ó. Loureda & M. Casado (eds.), Language Use in the Public Sphere. Methodological Perspectives and Empirical Applications. Bern: Peter Lang, pp. 353-377.

Duffley, Patrick J. (2013) Politics, sex, relegion and the cognitive model of separation: the impact of schemas on the interpretation of lexical items and forms of argumentation Lexico y argumentacion en el discurso publico actual, Peter Lang Edition: 55-71.

Duffley, Patrick J. (2013) How Creativity Strains Conventionality in the Use of Idiomatic Expressions Language and the Creative Mind, CSLI Publications: 49-61.

Duffley, Patrick J. (1992), The English Infinitive. London: Longman.

Duffley, Patrick J. and Rachel Tremblay (1994) The Infinitive and the -ing as Complements of Verbs of Effort, English Studies 75,6: 566-575.

Duffley, Patrick J. (1994) Need and dare: The black sheep of the modal family, Lingua 94: 213-243.

Duffley, Patrick J. (1996) WH- words and the infinitive in English, Lingua 98: 221-242.

Duffley, Patrick J. (1997) Negation and the Lexical Semantics of MUST and MAY in English, in P. Larrivée (ed.) La structuration conceptuelle du langage. Louvain-la- Neuve: Peeters, pp. 69-82.

Duffley, Patrick J. and Pierre Larrivée (1998) NEED, DARE and Negative Polarity, Linguistic Analysis 28: 1-19.

Duffley, Patrick J. (1999) The Use of the Infinitive and the -ing after Verbs Denoting the Beginning, Middle and End of an Event, Folia Linguistica 33, 3-4: 295-331.

Duffley, Patrick J. (2000) Gerund versus Infinitive as Complements of Transitive Verbs in English: the Problems of ‘Tense’ and ‘Control’, Journal of English Linguistics 28, 3: 221-248.

Duffley, Patrick J. (2001) Verbs of Tolerance with the Gerund and the Infinitive. Lacus Forum XXVII: 87-92.

Duffley, Patrick J. (2002) L’infinitif peut-il rester un verbe tout en ayant l’incidence interne?, in R. Lowe (ed.) Le système des parties du discours. Sémantique et syntaxe, Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, pp. 40-47.

Duffley, Patrick J. (2003) Les conditions de production de l’effet de sens ‘imperfectif’ avec la forme en -ing de l’anglais, Langages 149: 86-99.

Duffley, Patrick J. (2003) The Gerund and the to-Infinitive as Subject, JEngL, 31: 4: 324-352.

Duffley, Patrick J. (2004) Verbs of Liking with the Infinitive and the Gerund, English Studies 85, 4: 358-380.

Duffley, Patrick J. (2004) The Infinitive and the -ing as Complements of Verbs of Positive and Negative Recall, in G. Bergh, J. Herriman and M. Mobärg, An International Master of Syntax and Semantics. Papers presented to Aimo Seppänen on the occasion of his 75th birthday, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, pp. 69-78.

Duffley, Patrick J. (2006), The English Gerund-Participle, A Comparison with Infinitive. New York: Peter Lang Publisher.
Fiche descriptive du livre (PDF, 82 Ko).

Duffley, P. & R. Abida (2009) Complementation with Verbs of Choice in English. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 54: 1-26.

Duffley, P. & P. Larrivée (2010) Anyone for non-scalarity? English Language and Linguistics 14: 1-17.

Duffley, P. & P. Larrivée (2012) Collocation, interpretation and explanation: The case of JUST ANY. Lingua 122: 24-40.

Duffley, P. & P. Larrivée (2012) Exploring the relation between the qualitative and quantitative uses of the determiner some. English Language and Linguistics 16: 129-147.

Duffley, P. & M. Arsenau (2012) Tense and control interpretations in gerund-participle and to-infinitive complement constructions with verbs of risk. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 57,1: 31-50.

Duffley, P. (2012) Review of Vyvyan Evans. How Words Mean. Cognitive Linguistics 23: 217-221.