Stef Spronck

List of John Benjamins publications for which Stef Spronck plays a role.

Titles

Notes from the field on perspective-indexing constructions: Irregular shifts and perspective persistence

Edited by Stef Spronck, An Van linden, Caroline Gentens and María Sol Sansiñena

Special issue of Functions of Language 27:1 (2020) v, 112 pp.
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics

Irregular perspective shifts and perspective persistence: Discourse-oriented and theoretical approaches

Edited by Caroline Gentens, María Sol Sansiñena, Stef Spronck and An Van linden

Special issue of Pragmatics 29:2 (2019) v, 154 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Spronck, Stef 2020 Chapter 5. The representation-cohesion-stance hypothesisLanguage, Culture and Identity – Signs of Life, Silva Sinha, Vera da, Ana Moreno-Núñez and Zhen Tian (eds.), pp. 75–110 | Chapter
This chapter argues that if we conceive of linguistic signs as inherently social signs, we should be able to capture social meaning at the grammatical level of the linguistic sign itself, not only in its use. It proposes that a way to do so is through analysing the linguistic sign as consisting… read more
Spronck, Stef, An Van linden, Caroline Gentens and María Sol Sansiñena 2020 Perspective persistence and irregular perspective shift: Mismatches in form-function pairingsNotes from the field on perspective-indexing constructions: Irregular shifts and perspective persistence, Spronck, Stef, An Van linden, Caroline Gentens and María Sol Sansiñena (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Article
Gentens, Caroline, María Sol Sansiñena, Stef Spronck and An Van linden 2019 Irregular perspective shifts and perspective persistence, discourse-oriented and theoretical approachesIrregular perspective shifts and perspective persistence: Discourse-oriented and theoretical approaches, Gentens, Caroline, María Sol Sansiñena, Stef Spronck and An Van linden (eds.), pp. 155–169 | Introduction
In this introduction, we set out the central themes of the special issue. It concentrates on imperfect function-form mappings, and discusses several cases in which specific perspectival meanings are not fully predictable on the basis of a perspectivizing grammatical construction alone. We… read more
Si, Aung and Stef Spronck 2019 Solega defenestration: Underspecified perspective shift in an unwritten Dravidian languageIrregular perspective shifts and perspective persistence: Discourse-oriented and theoretical approaches, Gentens, Caroline, María Sol Sansiñena, Stef Spronck and An Van linden (eds.), pp. 277–301 | Article
Based on original fieldwork, this paper discusses reported speech and thought constructions in Solega (Dravidian). Following McGregor (1994) we claim that reported speech can only be comprehensively characterised if it is identified as a syntactic construction in its own right, a construction we… read more
Spronck, Stef 2016 Evidential fictive interaction (in Ungarinyin and Russian)The Conversation Frame: Forms and functions of fictive interaction, Pascual, Esther and Sergeiy Sandler (eds.), pp. 255–275 | Article
This chapter introduces and examines the notion of “evidential fictive participants” and their grammatical expression in utterances of fictive interaction. It focuses on fictive direct speech constructions and draws on examples from the Australian Aboriginal language Ungarinyin and Russian. After… read more
Jakobson (1957) bases the analysis of mood on a three-part structure that crucially involves two participant variables. Although the definition of evidentiality in Jakobson (1957) differs in some fundamental ways, it also allows for the explication of a participant structure inherent in evidential… read more
Spronck, Stef 2012 Minds divided: Speaker attitudes in quotativesQuotatives: Cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary perspectives, Buchstaller, Isabelle and Ingrid van Alphen (eds.), pp. 71–116 | Article
This chapter analyzes how speakers can co-encode a reported message and an evaluation of that message in a quotative construction. It presents a typological account of the structures and meanings languages may employ to express, for example, (dis)agreement with or doubt in the truth of the message… read more