Marloes Oomen

List of John Benjamins publications in which Marloes Oomen is involved.

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Boven, Cindy van, Marloes Oomen, Roland Pfau and Lotte Rusch 2023 Chapter 2. Negative Concord in Sign Language of the Netherlands: A journey through a corpus Advances in Sign Language Corpus Linguistics, Wehrmeyer, Ella (ed.), pp. 30–65 | Chapter

In a Negative Concord (NC) configuration, two negative elements co-occur in a clause but the polarity of that clause still remains negative. NC involving two manual negators has been observed in various sign languages, but relevant examples are usually presented in the context of broader… read more

Oomen, Marloes 2022 Recurring iconic mapping patterns within and across verb types in German Sign Language Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems, Lenninger, Sara, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg and Elżbieta Tabakowska (eds.), pp. 289–328 | Chapter

Many sign languages around the world have the same tripartite verb classification system based on agreement properties, and it has previously been observed that this system is at least partially semantically grounded. In this article, the extent to which iconicity plays a mediating role in this… read more

Oomen, Marloes 2021 Iconicity as a mediator between verb semantics and morphosyntactic structure: A corpus-based study on verbs in German Sign Language Sign Language & Linguistics 24:1, pp. 132–141 | Abstract

Oomen, Marloes 2017 Iconicity in argument structure: Psych-verbs in Sign Language of the Netherlands Sign Language & Linguistics 20:1, pp. 55–108 | Article

A long tradition of psych-verb research in spoken languages has demonstrated that they constitute a class of their own, both semantically and syntactically. This study presents a description and analysis of psych-verbs in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT) in order to investigate whether… read more