Josefien Sweep
List of John Benjamins publications for which Josefien Sweep plays a role.
Articles
2014 The Dutch ‘X is zo + NP/VP’-construction Linguistics in the Netherlands 2014, Auer, Anita and Björn Köhnlein (eds.), pp. 165–179 | Article
This paper analyses Dutch sentences from a commercial campaign which make use of the ‘X is zo NP/VP’-construction. I consider this to be a construction (cf. Goldberg 1995; Verhagen 2005), not only because of its template-like character in which the adverb zo is followed by an unusual phrase type,… read more
2010 A frame-semantic approach to logical metonymy Constructions and Frames 2:1, pp. 1–32 | Article
Pustejovsky’s well-known analysis of so-called logical metonymy, such as she began the book (= ‘reading’ or ‘writing’ the book), fails in several respects (cf. e.g. Godard & Jayez 1993, Lascarides & Copestake 1998, Verspoor 1997). The main problem is that his account is based on just a few… read more
2009 Metonymy without a referential shift: Adding evidence to the discussion Linguistics in the Netherlands 2009, Botma, Bert and Jacqueline van Kampen (eds.), pp. 103–114 | Article