Qualitative-Quantitative Analyses of Dutch and Afrikaans Grammar and Lexicon
Robert S. Kirsner
[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 67] 2014. xi, 239 pp.
Robert S. Kirsner
List of John Benjamins publications for which Robert S. Kirsner plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis
Edited by Ellen Contini-Morava, Robert S. Kirsner and Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller
[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 51] 2004. viii, 389 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Communication Studies | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2014 Doing grammatical semantics as if it were phonetics Above and Beyond the Segments: Experimental linguistics and phonetics, Caspers, Johanneke, Yiya Chen, Willemijn Heeren, Jos Pacilly, Niels O. Schiller and Ellen van Zanten (eds.), pp. 165–173 | Article
This paper revisits two articles co-authored with van Heuven which study the
semantics of grammatical signals quantitatively – as if semantics were phonetics.
Kirsner & van Heuven (1988) demonstrates that the Dutch demonstrative
adjective deze ‘this/these’ refers back in texts over more sentence… read more
2011 Instructional meanings, iconicity, and l’arbitraire du signe in the analysis of the Afrikaans demonstratives Linguistic Theory and Empirical Evidence, Jonge, Bob de and Yishai Tobin (eds.), pp. 97–138 | Article
Unlike the Dutch demonstratives deze (dit) and, die (dat), which can be characterized in terms of definiteness and location, Afrikaans hierdie, daardie and dié must be analyzed as signaling the meaning deixis: an instruction to the hearer to seek out and attend to some referent. Accordingly, the… read more
2004 Phonetic or phonological contrasts in Dutch boundary tones? Linguistics in the Netherlands 2004, Cornips, Leonie and Jenny Doetjes (eds.), pp. 102–113 | Article
2004 Introduction Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis, Contini-Morava, Ellen, Robert S. Kirsner and Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Miscellaneous
2002 Interaction of tone and particle in the signalling of clause type in Dutch Linguistics in the Netherlands 2002, Broekhuis, Hans and Paula Fikkert (eds.), pp. 73–84 | Article
2002 The Future of a Minimalist Linguistics in a Maximalist World Signal, Meaning, and Message: Perspectives on sign-based linguistics, Reid, Wallis, Ricardo Otheguy and Nancy Stern (eds.), pp. 339–371 | Article
1999 Interaction of Grammatical Form and Intonation: Two Experiments on Dutch Imperatives Linguistics in the Netherlands 1999, Bezooijen, Renée van and René Kager (eds.), pp. 81–96 | Article
1999 How Dutch Final Particles Constrain the Construal of Utterances: Experiment and etymology Discourse Studies in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, July 1997, Van Hoek, Karen, Andrej A. Kibrik and Leo Noordman (eds.), pp. 165 ff. | Article
1998 From Request to Command: An Exploratory Experimental Study of Grammatical Form, Intonation, and Pragmatic Particle in Dutch Imperatives Linguistics in the Netherlands 1998, Bezooijen, Renée van and René Kager (eds.), pp. 135–148 | Article
1996 4. The Human Factor and the Insufficiency of Invariant Meanings Toward a Calculus of Meaning: Studies in markedness, distinctive features and deixis, Andrews, Edna and Yishai Tobin (eds.), pp. 83 ff. | Article
1996 Boundary tones and the semantics of the Dutch final particles hé, hoor, zeg and joh Linguistics in the Netherlands 1996, Cremers, Crit and Marcel den Dikken (eds.), pp. 133–146 | Article
1994 Interaction of particle and prosody in the interpretation of factual Dutch sentences Linguistics in the Netherlands 1994, Bok-Bennema, Reineke and Crit Cremers (eds.), pp. 107–118 | Article
1991 Review of Rudzka-Ostyn (1988): Topics in cognitive linguistics Studies in Language 15:1, pp. 149–174 | Review
1989 Does sign-oriented linguistics have a future? On sign, text, and the falsifiability of theoretical constructs From Sign to Text: A semiotic view of communication, Tobin, Yishai (ed.), pp. 161 ff. | Article
1985 Iconicity and grammatical meaning Iconicity in Syntax: Proceedings of a symposium on iconicity in syntax, Stanford, June 24–26, 1983, Haiman, John (ed.), pp. 249 ff. | Article