Catharina Williams-van Klinken

List of John Benjamins publications for which Catharina Williams-van Klinken plays a role.

Articles

Williams-van Klinken, Catharina and John Hajek 2020 Chapter 8. Double agent, double cross? Or how a suffix changes nature in an isolating language: dór in Tetun Dili Austronesian Undressed: How and why languages become isolating, Gil, David and Antoinette Schapper (eds.), pp. 369–390 | Chapter

In East Timor, there have been centuries of contact between the strongly isolating Austronesian language Tetun Dili and the morphologically-rich Romance language Portuguese. In all this time, only one derivational morpheme has been borrowed into Tetun Dili for use with native lexicon. This is… read more

Williams-van Klinken, Catharina and John Hajek 2006 Patterns of address in Dili Tetum, East Timor Address from a World Perspective, Kretzenbacher, Heinz L., Catrin Norrby and Jane Warren (eds.), pp. 21.1–21.18 | Article

This article focuses on a detailed description of patterns of address in Dili Tetum today. It outlines the complexities of the address system and points to considerable variation in its evolving presentday use. We find, amongst other things, that a speaker may use a range of address strategies even… read more