Patrick Duffley

Professeur titulaire

Pavillon Charles-De Koninck, bureau 3207
Téléphone : 418 656-2131 poste 5703
Télécopieur : 418 656-2622
patrick.duffley@lli.ulaval.ca

Domaines d'enseignement

• English morphology and syntax
• Psychomechanics of language
• ESL

Domaines de recherche

• English morphology and syntax
• Psychomechanics of language
• Complementation and control
• Non-finite verbals
• Modal auxiliaries
• Cognitive grammar
• Grammatical semantics

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. (1992), The English Infinitive. London : Longman.http://store.awl.com/catalog/ecom_search.html
• 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 75^th 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.
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• 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.