Journal articles
Brysbaert, Jorina & Anne Catherine Simon. 2025. Délimiter le contraste : le rôle de la force des frontières prosodiques. Langue française 225. 93-112.
Brysbaert, Jorina & Karen Lahousse. 2025. Syntactic position of contrast markers in different registers of French. International Journal Of Corpus Linguistics. Online first.
Brysbaert, Jorina & Karen Lahousse. 2022. Marking contrastive topics in a topic shift context: Contrastive adverbs versus emphatic pronouns. Discours – Revue de linguistique, psycholinguistique et informatique 31. 1-27.
Edited books
Brysbaert, Jorina & Karen Lahousse (eds). 2024. On the role of contrast in information structure (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 382). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.
Book chapters
Brysbaert, Jorina & Karen Lahousse. 2024. The complex nature of contrast. In Jorina Brysbaert & Karen Lahousse (eds), On the role of contrast in information structure (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 382), 1-18. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.
Brysbaert, Jorina & Karen Lahousse. 2020. CMC versus non-CMC corpora of informal French: Differences in the expression of contrast by au contraire. In Julien Longhi & Claudia Marinica (eds), CMC corpora through the prism of digital humanities, 113-126. Paris: L’Harmattan.
Conference proceedings
Brysbaert, Jorina & Karen Lahousse. 2021. The influence of text formality on the syntactic position of French contrastive adverbs. A corpus analysis of en revanche and par contre. Papers of the Linguistic Society of Belgium 15. 1-12.
Brysbaert, Jorina & Karen Lahousse. 2020. Les marqueurs de contraste au contraire, par contre et en revanche en français parlé et écrit, formel et informel. Proceedings of the 7e Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française [CMLF]. Paper n°01010.
Brysbaert, Jorina & Karen Lahousse. 2019. Computer-mediated versus non-computer-mediated corpora of informal French: Differences in politeness and intensification in the expression of contrast by au contraire. Proceedings of the 7th conference on CMC and social media corpora for the humanities (cmccorpora19). 48-52.
Invited talks
Brysbaert, Jorina. 2025. Say it with par contre: Marking strategies for contrastive subjects at the syntax-prosody-lexicon interface. Invited by Laboratoire de linguistique formelle (LingLunch), Paris (France), 26 June 2025.
Brysbaert, Jorina. 2022. A corpus analysis of contrastive subjects in different registers of French: From discourse and syntax to prosody. Invited by Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence (France), 16 September 2022.
Brysbaert, Jorina. 2022. Sujets contrastifs dans différents registres du français : une analyse de corpus variationniste. Invited by Cercle de sociolinguistique du Québec, Montreal (Canada), 20 May 2022.
Talks/posters at (inter)national conferences
Brysbaert, Jorina. Abstract accepted. When prosody ‘compensates for’ syntax: Modality-specific marking of contrastive subjects in French. Talk to be presented at 48. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft [DGfS], Trier (Germany).
Brysbaert, Jorina. Abstract accepted. Le marquage de sujets contrastifs en français parlé : quand la prosodie compense la syntaxe. Talk to be presented at L’oral dans tous ses états à travers les langues du monde : enjeux linguistiques, littéraires et socioculturels, Sousse (Tunisia).
Brysbaert, Jorina. 2025. Par contre ouvre, la prosodie délimite : le marquage prosodique de sujets contrastifs en français parlé. Poster presented at Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheurs en Parole, Paris (France), 6 November 2025.
Brysbaert, Jorina. 2025. Alternation between marking strategies for contrastive subjects: A corpus-based analysis in formal and informal written French. Talk presented at Societas Linguistica Europaea [SLE], Bordeaux (France), 29 August 2025.
Brysbaert, Jorina. 2025. Quand lui (il) est sujet : les pronoms forts en position sujet en français parlé. Talk presented at Association for French Language Studies [AFLS], Brussels (Belgium), 3 July 2025.
Brysbaert, Jorina & Karen Lahousse. 2023. Syntactic position of contrast markers in different registers of French. Talk presented at Association for French Language Studies [AFLS], Lille (France), 8 September 2023.
Brysbaert, Jorina & Karen Lahousse. 2023. Syntactic position of contrast markers in different registers of French: A quantitative corpus analysis. Talk presented at Societas Linguistica Europaea [SLE], Athens (Greece), 31 August 2023.
Brysbaert, Jorina, Karen Lahousse & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. 2023. Quant à lui/eux versus lui/eux: Influence of register and syntactic complexity on their alternation and syntactic position. Talk presented at Journées Linguistique de Corpus [JLC], Grenoble (France), 4 July 2023.
Brysbaert, Jorina, Karen Lahousse & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. 2023. Quant à lui ou lui ? Influence de la complexité syntaxique sur leur alternance et leur position syntaxique. Talk presented at ColDocSFL: La complexité en linguistique, Saint-Denis (France), 29 June 2023.
Brysbaert, Jorina, Anne Catherine Simon & Karen Lahousse. 2021. The prosodic marking of contrastive subjects in French. Talk presented at the International Workshop on the Expression of Contrast and the Annotation of Information Structure in Corpora [Contrast & Annotation IS], Leuven (Belgium), 19 November 2021.
Brysbaert, Jorina, Anne Catherine Simon & Karen Lahousse. 2021. The prosodic profile of contrastive subjects in French: A corpus analysis of clause-initial par contre. Abstract accepted at the Linguists’ Day of the Linguistic Society of Belgium [LSB], Brussels (Belgium), 22 October 2021.
Brysbaert, Jorina & Karen Lahousse. 2021. The influence of formality on the expression of contrast in French: A corpus analysis of contrastive adverbs and emphatic pronouns. Talk presented at Societas Linguistica Europaea [SLE], Online, 30 August 2021.
Brysbaert, Jorina & Karen Lahousse. 2021. Sujets contrastifs en français : variation diaphasique. Talk presented at Association for French Language Studies [AFLS], Online, 25 June 2021.
Brysbaert, Jorina & Karen Lahousse. 2020. Register differences in the marking of contrastivity in French: Syntactic position of contrastive adverbs versus emphatic pronouns. Talk presented at the Linguists’ Day of the Linguistic Society of Belgium [LSB], Online, 16 October 2020.
Brysbaert, Jorina & Karen Lahousse. 2020. Contrastive subjects modified by contrastive adverbs in different registers of French. Talk presented at Societas Linguistica Europaea [SLE], Online, 28 August 2020.
Brysbaert, Jorina & Karen Lahousse. 2019. Computer-mediated versus non-computer-mediated corpora of informal French: Differences in politeness and intensification in the expression of contrast by au contraire. Talk presented at CMCCorpora Conference, Cergy-Pontoise (France), 10 September 2019.
Brysbaert, Jorina & Karen Lahousse. 2019. Register variation in the expression of contrast in French: Frequency and use of the contrastive adverbs au contraire, par contre and en revanche. Talk presented at Societas Linguistica Europaea [SLE], Leipzig (Germany), 23 August 2019.
Brysbaert, Jorina & Karen Lahousse. 2019. La variation diaphasique du contraste en français : fréquence et emploi des adverbes contrastifs. Talk presented at Association for French Language Studies [AFLS], Bristol (UK), 16 July 2019.