Andrew Weir
List of John Benjamins publications for which Andrew Weir plays a role.
Articles
2017 Object drop and article drop in reduced written register Register Variation and Syntactic Theory, Massam, Diane and Tim Stowell (eds.), pp. 157–185 | Article
This paper discusses object drop in English ‘reduced written register’ (RWR), such as recipes (Haegeman 1987a, b, Massam & Roberge 1989, Massam 1992) and diaries. Object drop differs from subject drop in RWR (Haegeman 1997, 2007, this issue); dropped subjects can be of any person and can be… read more
2016 Finiteness and response particles in West Flemish Finiteness Matters: On finiteness-related phenomena in natural languages, Eide, Kristin Melum (ed.), pp. 211–254 | Article
The empirical focus of the chapter is the morphosyntax of the morphologically marked response particles ja and neen in the Lapscheure dialect of West Flemish. Building on Krifka (2013)’s analysis of the corresponding German response particles ja/nein as TP pro-forms, we analyze morphologically… read more
2015 The cartography of yes and no in West Flemish Discourse-oriented Syntax, Bayer, Josef, Roland Hinterhölzl and Andreas Trotzke (eds.), pp. 175–210 | Article
We make an in-depth study of the response particles ja/nee (‘yes/no’) in the Lapscheure dialect of Dutch. These particles show overt phi-feature marking corresponding to what would be the subject of a response clause. Additionally, in ‘reversal answers’, the particles bear additional morphology. We… read more