Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries
Edited by Daniël Van Olmen and Jolanta Šinkūnienė
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 325] 2021. vi, 452 pp.
Daniël Van Olmen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Daniël Van Olmen plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Imperatives and Directive Strategies
Edited by Daniël Van Olmen and Simone Heinold
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 184] 2017. vi, 324 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
2024 Adjectival intensification in West Germanic: A corpus-based comparison of Afrikaans, Dutch, English and German Studies in Language 48:2, pp. 436–471 | Article
This article investigates the forms and functions of adjectival intensification in West Germanic. With corpus data from different discourse types, we challenge claims that German tends to use synthetic means and Dutch is between German and English but more like English in its preference for… read more
2022 A questionnaire-based study of impersonalization in Romanian and English: With special attention to passivization Languages in Contrast 22:1, pp. 1–42 | Article
This paper is the first contrastive study of impersonalization in Romanian and English. Taking an acceptability judgment approach, we describe the functional potential in all impersonal uses of not only the pronouns ‘one’, ‘you’ and ‘they’ but also the lesser studied passive. We find inter alia:… read more
2021 Chapter 9. Second person parentheticals of unintentional visual perception in British English Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries, Van Olmen, Daniël and Jolanta Šinkūnienė (eds.), pp. 251–276 | Chapter
This chapter is the first systematic corpus-based study of parenthetical see, you see and do you see in British English. It compares (the relationship between) their clause positions and their uses. The results indicate, inter alia, that see is not simply a shorter form of you see but also that… read more
2021 On order and prohibition Postverbal negation, Krasnoukhova, Olga, Johan van der Auwera and Mily Crevels (eds.), pp. 520–556 | Article
The present article examines the claim in the literature that the negative first principle, i.e. the preference for the order negation-verb to verb-negation, is stronger in negative imperatives (or prohibitives) than in negative declaratives. To test this hypothesis, we develop – in contrast to… read more
2021 Introduction. Pragmatic markers and peripheries: An overview Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries, Van Olmen, Daniël and Jolanta Šinkūnienė (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Chapter
2019 A diachronic corpus study of prenominal zo’n ‘so a’ in Dutch: Pathways and (inter)subjectification Functions of Language 26:2, pp. 216–247 | Article
Like its English counterpart such, Dutch zo’n has identifying and intensifying uses. The established pathway from the former to the latter is found to constitute a proportional rather than a discrete shift here. The strong presence of intensifying uses from the start, as compared to the older… read more
2019 A corpus-based study of the human impersonal pronoun ( 'n ) mens in Afrikaans: Compared to men and een mens in Dutch Languages in Contrast 19:1, pp. 79–105 | Article
This article compares the grammaticalizing human impersonal pronoun ('n) mens in Afrikaans to fully grammaticalized men and non-grammaticalized een mens in Dutch. It is shown that 'n mens and een mens can still be used lexically, unlike mens and men, and that ('n) mens and een mens are… read more
2018 Human impersonal pronouns in West Germanic: A questionnaire-based comparative study of Afrikaans, Dutch and English Studies in Language 42:4, pp. 798–846 | Article
In this article, we examine and compare the main human impersonal pronouns in Afrikaans, Dutch and English. The second person singular, the third person plural and the ‘man’- and ‘one’-pronouns are studied by means of an acceptability judgment questionnaire and a completion questionnaire. The… read more
2017 Imperatives and directive strategies from a functional-typological perspective: An introduction Imperatives and Directive Strategies, Van Olmen, Daniël and Simone Heinold (eds.), pp. 1–50 | Chapter
2013 Describing and explaining the variation of Bantu imperatives and prohibitives Studies in Language 37:1, pp. 1–57 | Article
This paper describes Bantu imperatival and prohibitival speech acts. The study is set against the background of the formal instability of directives and grammaticalization theory. On the basis of a sample of 100 languages, we conclude that imperatival strategies are limited to imperatives,… read more
2013 Review of Panther & Radden (2011): Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon Functions of Language 20:1, pp. 125–133 | Review
2012 Review of Rothstein & Thieroff (2010): Mood in the languages of Europe Studies in Language 36:1, pp. 225–230 | Review
2012 The imperative of intentional visual perception as a pragmatic marker: A contrastive study of Dutch, English and Romance Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization: Lessons from false friends, Lauwers, Peter, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede and Stijn Verleyen (eds.), pp. 95–115 | Article
This article is a synchronic study of the imperatives of intentional visual perception as pragmatic markers in English and Dutch. It examines the frequency of ‘look’ and kijk in spoken language, the types of text in which they occur and, above all, the way in which they are used. On the basis of… read more
2010 The imperative of intentional visual perception as a pragmatic marker: A contrastive study of Dutch, English and Romance Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization: Lessons from false friends, Lauwers, Peter, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede and Stijn Verleyen (eds.), pp. 223–244 | Article
This article is a synchronic study of the imperatives of intentional visual perception as pragmatic markers in English and Dutch. It examines the frequency of ‘look’ and kijk in spoken language, the types of text in which they occur and, above all, the way in which they are used. On the basis of… read more
2010 Imperatives of visual versus auditory perception as pragmatic markers in English and Dutch English Text Construction 3:1, pp. 74–94 | Article
This article examines the English and Dutch imperatives of intentional visual and auditory perception and in particular their use as pragmatic markers. Look, listen, kijk ‘look’ and luister ‘listen’ are compared with respect to frequency, distribution and usage. The difference between look and… read more