Structure Preserved: Studies in syntax for Jan Koster
Edited by C. Jan-Wouter Zwart and Mark de Vries
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 164] 2010. xxiii, 395 pp.
Mark de Vries
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mark de Vries plays a role.
Title
Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2023 Are there different kinds of appositive relative clauses? Linguistics in the Netherlands 2023, Leufkens, Sterre and Marco Bril (eds.), pp. 230–247 | Article
In his latest book on relative clauses, Cinque claims that there are two fundamentally different kinds of appositive (non-restrictive) relative clauses. The unintegrated ones are the typical English type, the integrated ones are found in various languages, including Chinese and Japanese. This… read more
2022 Interpreting idioms in a second language: The role of context and transfer in interpreting English idioms by native Dutch speakers Linguistics in the Netherlands 2022, Vogels, Jorrig and Sterre Leufkens (eds.), pp. 55–71 | Article
How do people understand figurative speech in a foreign language? What strategies do they use? By means of an online questionnaire, this study investigated to what extent contextual information and transfer play a role in the interpretation of idioms in a second language, controlling for… read more
2014 Parenthesis and presupposition in discourse Linguistics in the Netherlands 2014, Auer, Anita and Björn Köhnlein (eds.), pp. 39–52 | Article
Parentheses do not affect the semantic truth conditions of the host clause, but they do affect the discourse structure. We propose a maximally simple update system for the conversational context. Presuppositions are treated as past requests for the interlocutor’s consent. Parentheticals act like… read more
2013 Cumulative rightward processes Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective, Webelhuth, Gert, Manfred Sailer and Heike Walker (eds.), pp. 281–318 | Article
Extraposition and right node raising (RNR) can interact in two ways: from a descriptive point of view, the result of each can be used as input for the other. Embedding of the former process or configuration inside the latter explains apparent violations of the right periphery condition associated… read more
2013 Locality and right-dislocation Linguistics in the Netherlands 2013, Aalberse, Suzanne and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 160–172 | Article
Right-dislocation constructions, including backgrounding and specificational afterthoughts, are subject to various limitations. Dislocated phrases themselves are islands for extraction. Moreover, there are proximity effects between dislocated phrases and their correlate in the host clause. The… read more
2012 Thinking in the right direction: An ellipsis analysis of right-dislocation Linguistics in the Netherlands 2012, Elenbaas, Marion and Suzanne Aalberse (eds.), pp. 123–134 | Article
We propose to analyze right-dislocation constructions in terms of clausal coordination, coupled with ellipsis. While neither rightward movement nor base-generation of backgrounded and afterthought phrases is descriptively accurate, we show that the facts follow straightforwardly on an analysis… read more
2012 Parenthetical main clauses – or not? On appositives and quasi-relatives Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons, Aelbrecht, Lobke, Liliane Haegeman and Rachel Nye (eds.), pp. 177–202 | Article
Syntactic and semantic characteristics canonically associated with main clauses do not always go together. This paper discusses two puzzling construction types from this perspective: appositive relative clauses (ARCs) and quasi-relatives. I argue that ARCs and appositions are related, and that… read more
2010 Empty subjects and empty objects Structure Preserved: Studies in syntax for Jan Koster, Zwart, C. Jan-Wouter and Mark de Vries (eds.), pp. 359–366 | Article
2010 Apparent nonlocality Linguistics in the Netherlands 2010, Kampen, Jacqueline van and Rick Nouwen (eds.), pp. 129–140 | Article
2007 Invisible constituents? Parentheticals as b-merged adverbial phrases Parentheticals, Dehé, Nicole and Yordanka Kavalova (eds.), pp. 203–234 | Article
Parentheses are included in their host sentences, but at the same time they show unintegrated behavior. This article studies this Janus-faced phenomenon from a syntactic point of view. There are two main parts. The first introduces the term Invisibility for syntactic independence based on the… read more
2007 Dislocation and backgrounding Linguistics in the Netherlands 2007, Los, Bettelou and Marjo van Koppen (eds.), pp. 235–247 | Article
2006 Reported direct speech in Dutch Linguistics in the Netherlands 2006, Weijer, Jeroen van de and Bettelou Los (eds.), pp. 212–223 | Article
2005 Merge: Properties and boundary conditions Linguistics in the Netherlands 2005, Doetjes, Jenny and Jeroen van de Weijer (eds.), pp. 219–230 | Article
2004 Head-internal relative clauses in Dutch? Linguistics in the Netherlands 2004, Cornips, Leonie and Jenny Doetjes (eds.), pp. 193–204 | Article
2003 Three-dimensional grammar Linguistics in the Netherlands 2003, Cornips, Leonie and Paula Fikkert (eds.), pp. 201–212 | Article
2001 Patterns of relative clauses Linguistics in the Netherlands 2001, Wouden, Ton van der and Hans Broekhuis (eds.), pp. 231–243 | Article
2000 Appositive relative clauses Linguistics in the Netherlands 2000, Hoop, Helen de and Ton van der Wouden (eds.), pp. 221–231 | Article