
Benoît Leclercq
Teaching
2025/2026
Undergraduate level
L1.S2 - Grammar 2: The Noun Phrase
L1.S2 - Articulatory Phonetics
L2.S3 - Grammar 3: Tense and Aspect
L2.S4 - Grammar 4: Modality & Discourse Markers
L2.S4 - Linguistics: Diachrony
L3.S5 - Linguistics: Pragmatics
L3.S5 - Faits de Langue (i.e. training for the linguistics part of the English ‘PGCE’ exam)
L3.S6 - Linguistics: Language and usage
Graduate level
M1.S1 - Faits de Langue (i.e. training for the linguistics part of the English ‘PGCE’ exam)
Previous years
Graduate level
L1.S1 - Grammar 1: Forms, Functions, Verbal complementation
Supervision (Masters)
I agree to supervise dissertations that relate to one or more of the following elements:
- English grammar: the student seeks to provide a detailed description of a specific phenomenon by combining an empirical approach (e.g. corpus linguistics) with a qualitative analysis. Any aspect of the English language can be covered (not necessarily modality), whether from a synchronic or diachronic perspective.
- Semantics/pragmatics interface: the student is particularly interested in questions relating to the nature of meaning, that is, the way meaning is (co-)constructed in usage, the co(n)textual factors that directly contribute to the interpretation of a construction, or the different types of meaning (semantic, pragmatic, or social) that a construction can be used to express.
- Theoretical puzzles: in doing so, the student is also concerned with more theoretical questions (preferably within the framework of Construction Grammar or Relevance Theory) which they hope to answer as part of their research.
Masters dissertation
2024-2025 Jahnaël Avril (M1 LDA), Understanding the meaning behind litotic constructions: Defining and analysing this negation-based understatement.