Case, Valency and Transitivity
Edited by Leonid Kulikov, Andrej L. Malchukov and Peter de Swart
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 77] 2006. xx, 503 pp.
Peter de Swart
List of John Benjamins publications for which Peter de Swart plays a role.
Title
Subjects Morphology | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2021 The effect of filler complexity and context on the acceptability of wh -island violations in Dutch Linguistics in the Netherlands 2021, Dingemanse, Mark, Eva van Lier and Jorrig Vogels (eds.), pp. 4–20 | Article
Acceptability judgements of syntactic island violations are often claimed to improve by either increasing the complexity of the wh-filler phrase or integrating the violating sentence into a discourse. In two acceptability judgement tasks, we looked at wh-island violations in Dutch by varying the… read more
2014 Unscrambling the lexical nature of weak definites Weak Referentiality, Aguilar-Guevara, Ana, Bert Le Bruyn and Joost Zwarts (eds.), pp. 287–310 | Article
We investigate how the lexical nature of weak definites influences the phenomenon of direct object scrambling in Dutch. Earlier experiments have indicated that weak definites are more resistant to scrambling than strong definites. We examine how the notion of weak definiteness used in this… read more
2013 Mapping out the Source domain: Evidence from parallel Old Indo-European data Studies in Language 37:2, pp. 302–355 | Article
This paper takes a strictly empirical approach to the encoding of spatial notions in the four ancient Indo-European languages Ancient Greek, Latin, Gothic and Old Church Slavonic. By generating semantic maps on the basis of parallel corpus data, without any semantic pre-analysis, we use methods… read more
2011 Sense and simplicity: Bidirectionality in differential case marking Bidirectional Optimality Theory, Benz, Anton and Jason Mattausch (eds.), pp. 125–150 | Article
I show that two different motivations drive the differential case marking of direct objects cross-linguistically. On the one hand, direct objects can be marked to signal their markedness with respect to certain semantic features (local distinguishability). Opposed to this we find systems where… read more
2010 Individuation and semantic role interpretation in the adpositional domain Transitivity: Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing, Brandt, Patrick and Marco García García (eds.), pp. 279–300 | Article
In this chapter we discuss the role of Individuation on semantic role interpretation in the adpositional domain. Taking the findings of Aristar (1996, 1997) for the case domain as our starting point we examine whether similar observations can be made for the adpositional domain. On the basis of a… read more
2006 Language Variation and Historical Change: The Spread of DOM in Spanish Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2004: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Leiden, 9–11 December 2004, Doetjes, Jenny and Paz González (eds.), pp. 225–245 | Article
2006 Case markedness Case, Valency and Transitivity, Kulikov, Leonid, Andrej L. Malchukov and Peter de Swart (eds.), pp. 249–267 | Article
2005 Cross-modularity in active to passive alternations Linguistics in the Netherlands 2005, Doetjes, Jenny and Jeroen van de Weijer (eds.), pp. 191–202 | Article