Dik Bakker

Dik Bakker

List of John Benjamins publications for which Dik Bakker plays a role.

Articles

Siewierska, Anna and Dik Bakker. 2012. Three takes on grammatical relations: A view from the languages of Europe and North and Central Asia. Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations: A crosslinguistic typology, Suihkonen, Pirkko, Bernard Comrie and Valery Solovyev (eds.), pp. 295–324
In this contribution we discuss three different approaches to grammatical relations (GR), all situated within the functional-typological paradigm. Taking the major distinctions from these as a point of departure, we construct a three-way typology to classify languages with respect to GRs. Finally,… read more | Article
Bakker, Dik and Anna Siewierska. 2007. Another take on the notion Subject. Structural-Functional Studies in English Grammar: In honour of Lachlan Mackenzie, Hannay, Mike and Gerard J. Steen (eds.), pp. 141–158
Linguistic theories typically have a static, competence-based view of the notion Subject. In this view speakers choose their Subjects freely from the relevant constituents of a clause, typically the arguments of the main predicate. However, when one looks at what speakers actually do, it becomes… read more | Article
Siewierska, Anna and Dik Bakker. 2007. Bound person forms in ditransitive clauses revisited. Ditransitivity, Siewierska, Anna and Willem B. Hollmann (eds.), pp. 103–125
In a recent article Gensler (2003) has argued that little can be said about the ordering of bound person markers of the T(heme) and R(ecipient) relative to each other or relative to the verb stem apart from the fact that the outer markers are likely to be the result of a second-level cliticization… read more | Article
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The article examines the distribution and formal realization of Subject and Object agreement markers in different word order types on the basis of a sample of 237 languages. Special attention is paid to the genetic and areal stratification of agreement markers and the impact of these two parameters… read more | Article
Rijkhoff, Jan, Dik Bakker, Kees Hengeveld and Peter Kahrel. 1993. A Method of Language Sampling. Studies in Language 17:1, pp. 169–203
In recent years more attention is being paid to the quality of language samples in typological work. Without an adequate sampling strategy, samples may suffer from various kinds of bias. In this article we propose a sampling method in which the genetic criterion is taken as the most important:… read more | Article