Rik van Gijn

List of John Benjamins publications for which Rik van Gijn plays a role.

Titles

Switch Reference 2.0

Edited by Rik van Gijn and Jeremy Hammond

[Typological Studies in Language, 114] 2016. vi, 503 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Information Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences

Edited by Rik van Gijn, Jeremy Hammond, Dejan Matić, Saskia van Putten and Ana Vilacy Galucio

[Typological Studies in Language, 105] 2014. vi, 409 pp.
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

Subordination in Native South American Languages

Edited by Rik van Gijn, Katharina Haude and Pieter Muysken

[Typological Studies in Language, 97] 2011. viii, 315 pp.
Subjects Languages of South America | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Lier, Eva van, Ad Backus, Nel de Jong, Rik van Gijn, Konrad Rybka, Jantien Smit, Josje Verhagen, Katherine Walker and Camille Welie 2023 The Netherlands Urban Field Station: How language diversity promotes equality of opportunityLinguistics in the Netherlands 2023, Leufkens, Sterre and Marco Bril (eds.), pp. 293–300 | Article
Lier, Eva van, Ad Backus, Nel de Jong, Rik van Gijn, Konrad Rybka, Jantien Smit, Josje Verhagen, Katherine Walker en Camille Welie 2023 The Netherlands Urban Field Station: Taaldiversiteit inzetten voor gelijkere kansenLinguistics in the Netherlands 2023, Leufkens, Sterre and Marco Bril (eds.), pp. 285–292 | Article
Gijn, Rik van 2020 Separating layers of information: The anatomy of contact zonesAdvances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken, Smith, Norval, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh (eds.), pp. 161–178 | Chapter
Linguistic areas, or Sprachbünde, can be described very broadly as geographical areas where a group of languages have become similar to each other because of prolonged contact between the speakers of the different languages. Numerous linguistic areas have been proposed over the years and all… read more
Gijn, Rik van 2019 Chapter 4. Case markers as subordinators in South American indigenous languagesNominalization in Languages of the Americas, Zariquiey, Roberto, Masayoshi Shibatani and David W. Fleck (eds.), pp. 197–248 | Chapter
Nominalization (in different forms and guises) is one of the most common subordination strategies in South American indigenous languages. A frequently used nominalization strategy is to use case markers to indicate the semantic or structural relationship of the nominalized clause to the proposition… read more
Gijn, Rik van 2016 Switch reference: An overviewSwitch Reference 2.0, Gijn, Rik van and Jeremy Hammond (eds.), pp. 1–54 | Article
Until not very long ago, switch reference was regarded as a marginal phenomenon found in a handful of lesser-known languages. An increasing number of studies of the phenomenon made it clear, however, that the geographical extent of switch-reference systems is rather large, spanning large parts of… read more
Gijn, Rik van 2016 Switch reference in Western South AmericaSwitch Reference 2.0, Gijn, Rik van and Jeremy Hammond (eds.), pp. 153–206 | Article
Switch reference systems occur in a number of languages spoken in a contiguous area in western South America, across language families, and even across macro culture areas (Andes and Amazon). At first sight, this is suggestive of contact-induced diffusion, but the different systems show rather a… read more
Gijn, Rik van 2014 Repeated dependent clauses in YurakaréInformation Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences, Gijn, Rik van, Jeremy Hammond, Dejan Matić, Saskia van Putten and Ana Vilacy Galucio (eds.), pp. 291–308 | Article
Yurakaré (isolate, Bolivia) has two constructions, both restricted to narratives, involving repetition of chunks of speech in the form of a dependent clause, marked for switch-reference. In the first construction, tail-head linkage, material from the previous sentence is repeated as a background to… read more
Gijn, Rik van 2014 Reduplication in YurakaréWord Formation in South American Languages, Danielsen, Swintha, Katja Hannss and Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), pp. 143–161 | Article
Yurakaré, an isolate language spoken in central Bolivia, makes extensive use of reduplication to form words. Three different types of morphological reduplication can be distinguished on formal grounds: complete root reduplication, partial prefixed reduplication, and partial suffixed reduplication,… read more
Matić, Dejan, Rik van Gijn and Robert D. Van Valin Jr. 2014 Information structure and reference tracking in complex sentences: An overviewInformation Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences, Gijn, Rik van, Jeremy Hammond, Dejan Matić, Saskia van Putten and Ana Vilacy Galucio (eds.), pp. 1–42 | Article
This volume is dedicated to exploring the crossroads where complex sentences and information management – more specifically information structure (IS) and reference tracking (RT) – come together. Complex sentences are a highly relevant but understudied domain for studying notions of IS and RT. On… read more
Gijn, Rik van 2011 Semantic and grammatical integration in Yurakaré subordinationSubordination in Native South American Languages, Gijn, Rik van, Katharina Haude and Pieter Muysken (eds.), pp. 169–192 | Article
Yurakaré (unclassified, central Bolivia) has five subordination strategies (on the basis of a morphosyntactic definition). In this paper I argue that the use of these different strategies is conditioned by the degree of conceptual synthesis of the two events, relating to temporal integration and… read more
Gijn, Rik van, Katharina Haude and Pieter Muysken 2011 Subordination in South America: An overviewSubordination in Native South American Languages, Gijn, Rik van, Katharina Haude and Pieter Muysken (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article
Kemmer (1993) argues that middle voice markers almost always arise diachronically through the semantic extension of a reflexive marker to other semantic uses related to reflexive. In this paper I will argue for an alternative diachronic path that has led to the development of the middle marker in… read more
Gijn, Rik van 2009 The phonology of mixed languagesJournal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24:1, pp. 91–117 | Article
Mixed languages are said to be the result of a process of intertwining (e.g. Bakker & Muysken 1995, Bakker 1997), a regular process in which the grammar of one language is combined with the lexicon of another. However, the outcome of this process differs from language pair to language pair. As far… read more
Gijn, Rik van and Sonja Gipper 2009 Irrealis in Yurakaré and other languages: On the cross-linguistic consistency of an elusive categoryCross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality, Hogeweg, Lotte, Helen de Hoop and Andrej L. Malchukov (eds.), pp. 155–178 | Article
The linguistic category of irrealis does not show stable semantics across languages. This makes it difficult to formulate general statements about this category, and it has led some researchers to reject irrealis as a cross-linguistically valid category. In this paper we look at the semantics of… read more
Gijn, Rik van 2004 Number in the Yurakaré noun phraseLinguistics in the Netherlands 2004, Cornips, Leonie and Jenny Doetjes (eds.), pp. 69–79 | Article