Date: 26-Oct-2005 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Linguistics in the Netherlands 2005: Doetjes, van de Weijer (Eds)
Title: Linguistics in the Netherlands 2005
Series Title: Linguistics in the Netherlands 22
Published: 2005
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Jenny Doetjes, Leiden University
Editor: Jeroen van de Weijer, Leiden University
Hardback: ISBN: 9027231656 Pages: viii, 243 Price: U.S. $ 114.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027231656 Pages: viii, 243 Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Abstract:
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the thirty-sixth annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands, which took place in Utrecht on January 29th, 2005. The aim of the annual meetings is to provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research. At this year's meeting, 78 papers were presented, of which 19 are published in this volume. Together they present an overview of research in different fields of linguistics in the Netherlands.
Table of contents
Preface v
Contributors vii-viii
Doing the Split-S in Klon Louise Baird 1-12
How easy is it for speakers of Dutch to understand Frisian and Afrikaans, and why? Renée van Bezooijen and Charlotte Gooskens 13-24
Linguistic variation in the subjuntivo imperfecto in Spanish America in the 16th century Mircea Branza and Vincent J. van Heuven 25-36
Auxiliary drop as subordination marking Anne Breitbarth 37-47
Locative inversion in English Hans Broekhuis 49-60
Modifiable and intensifier self in Dutch and Sign Language of the Netherlands Liesbeth De Clerck and Els van der Kooij 61-72
Low Saxon possessive pronominals: Syntax and phonology Norbert Corver and Marc van Oostendorp 73-86
Why there is(n't) wh-movement in there-constructions Jutta M. Hartmann 87-98
Subject-Object ambiguities in spoken and written Dutch Frank Jansen 99-109
Quantification and learnability: Early mastery of the weak-strong distinction Irene Krämer 111-123
Phonetic and phonological processing of pitch levels: A perception study of Chinese (aphasic) speakers Jie Liang and Vincent J. van Heuven 125-137
The perception of interrogativity by Japanese speakers of Dutch as a second language Yuki Niioka, Johanneke Caspers and Vincent J. van Heuven 139-150
Weak and weaker prepositional complements Eddy Ruys 151-163
The phonological bootstrapping of determiners Raquel S. Santos and Ester M. Scarpa 165-178
Classifying Dutch dialects using a syntactic measure: The perceptual Daan and Blok dialect map revisited Marco René Spruit 179-190
Cross-modularity in active to passive alternations Peter Swart, de 191-202
A note on the scope of adverbs in Malagasy Craig Thiersch 203-218
Merge: Properties and boundary conditions Mark de Vries 219-230
Some notes on coordination in head-final languages C. Jan-Wouter Zwart 231-242
Linguistic Field(s):
General Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Afrikaans (afr)
Dutch Sign Language (dse)
Dutch (nld)
English (eng)
Frisian, Northern (frr)
Saxon, Low (nds)
Malagasy (plt)