Jan Rijkhoff

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jan Rijkhoff plays a role.

Articles

Rijkhoff, Jan 2014 Modification as a propositional actTheory and Practice in Functional-Cognitive Space, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and Francisco Gonzálvez-García (eds.), pp. 129–150 | Article
A complete functional theory of grammar should be able to specify the communicative function of each constituent in a sentence (or rather ‘Discourse Act’). Whereas predicating and referring have been given due attention in functional approaches to grammar, the modifying function of… read more
Rijkhoff, Jan 2010 On flexible and rigid nounsParts of Speech: Empirical and theoretical advances, Ansaldo, Umberto, Jan Don and Roland Pfau (eds.), pp. 227–252 | Article
Rijkhoff, Jan 2008 Synchronic and diachronic evidence for parallels between noun phrases and sentencesInterdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses, Josephson, Folke and Ingmar Söhrman (eds.), pp. 13–42 | Article
It has been shown that, up to a point, noun phrases and clauses have the same underlying structure: they share the same kind of ‘layered’ organization and accommodate the same kind of semantic modifier categories (Rijkhoff 2008a). This article presents synchronic and diachronic evidence to… read more
Rijkhoff, Jan 2008 On flexible and rigid nounsParts of Speech: Descriptive tools, theoretical constructs, Ansaldo, Umberto, Jan Don and Roland Pfau (eds.), pp. 727–752 | Article
This article argues that in addition to the major flexible lexical categories in Hengeveld’s classification of parts-of-speech systems (Contentive, Non-Verb, Modifier), there are also flexible word classes within the rigid lexical category Noun (Set Noun, Sort Noun, General Noun). Members of… read more
Research conducted within the wider theoretical framework of Dik’s Functional Grammar has resulted in important contributions to linguistic typology, and, vice versa, empirical facts from a wide variety of languages have significantly improved the theory of Functional Grammar, especially regarding… read more
Rijkhoff, Jan, Dik Bakker, Kees Hengeveld and Peter Kahrel 1993 A Method of Language SamplingStudies in Language 17:1, pp. 169–203 | Article
In recent years more attention is being paid to the quality of language samples in typological work. Without an adequate sampling strategy, samples may suffer from various kinds of bias. In this article we propose a sampling method in which the genetic criterion is taken as the most important:… read more
Rijkhoff, Jan 1990 Toward a unified analysis of terms and predicationsLayers and Levels of Representation in Language Theory: A functional view, Nuyts, Jan, A. Machtelt Bolkestein and Co Vet (eds.), pp. 165 ff. | Article
Rijkhoff, Jan 1986 Word Order Universals Revisited: The Principle of Head ProximityFunctional Explanations in Linguistics, Bossuyt, Alain (ed.), pp. 95–125 | Article