A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian
Gertjan Postma
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 248] 2019. xxxi, 312 pp.
Gertjan Postma
List of John Benjamins publications for which Gertjan Postma plays a role.
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Subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2017 Chapter 10. The rise and fall of the passive auxiliary weorðan in the history of English Word Order Change in Acquisition and Language Contact: Essays in honour of Ans van Kemenade, Los, Bettelou and Pieter de Haan (eds.), pp. 213–239 | Chapter
This paper gives a quantative analyisis of the dynamics of the passive auxiliary weorðan favouring passive BE in the history of English. Weorðan displays a rise-and-fall pattern rather than a decline pattern: it forms a peak, which is interpreted as a 'failed change'. This failed change turns out… read more
2017 Chapter 8. Kratzer’s effect in the nominal domain: Fake indexicals in Dutch and German Crossroads Semantics: Computation, experiment and grammar, Reckman, Hilke, Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng, Maarten Hijzelendoorn and Rint Sybesma (eds.), pp. 125–137 | Chapter
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Fake indexicals are 1/2 person pronouns that do not have a fixed referent but vary over a set. It has been shown that fake indexicals are subject to morphological restrictions imposed by the verbal morphology. In this paper, we show that fake indexicals in the nominal… read more
2013 Clause-typing by [2] – the loss of the 2nd person pronoun du 'you' in Dutch, Frisian and Limburgian dialects Information Structure and Agreement, Camacho-Taboada, Victoria, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández, Javier Martín-González and Mariano Reyes-Tejedor (eds.), pp. 217–254 | Article
The 2nd person singular pronoun du ‘you’ has been replaced by new pronouns gij/jij/jii in many Dutch dialects. The standard explanation attributes du’s decline to the emerging honorific plural pronouns such as gij ‘you’ in singular use. In this study we trace a purely syntactic trigger for this… read more
2010 The impact of failed changes Continuity and Change in Grammar, Breitbarth, Anne, Christopher Lucas, Sheila Watts and David Willis (eds.), pp. 269–302 | Article
We study linguistic changes that failed, and their relation to successful changes. The inclusion of failed changes into Kroch’s logistic model of linguistic change is possible and, in fact, necessary. The logistic functions are solutions of a differential equation that also describes how failed… read more
2007 How to say no and don’t: Negative imperatives in Romance and Germanic Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar: Studies in honour of Frits Beukema, Wurff, Wim van der (ed.), pp. 205–249 | Article
After reviewing some earlier analyses of negative imperatives, we argue that there is a correlation between the (non-)availability of negative imperatives in a language and the merger of the anaphoric negator ( no ) and sentence negator ( not ). This shows up not only as lexical identity of these… read more
2007 On participial imperatives Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar: Studies in honour of Frits Beukema, Wurff, Wim van der (ed.), pp. 273–296 | Article
Apart from bare imperatives and infinitival imperatives, Dutch features a third type, the participial imperative, with a syntax quite different from the other types. First we present an inventory of the properties of the participial imperative. It will turn out that (the core set of) these… read more
2006 Toward a syntactic theory of number neutralisation: The Dutch pronouns je ‘you’ and ze ‘them’. Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax: From Afrikaans to Zurich German, Hartmann, Jutta M. and László Molnárfi (eds.), pp. 181–200 | Article
2002 Negative polarity and modality in Middle Dutch ghe-particle constructions Modality and its Interaction with the Verbal System, Barbiers, Sjef, Frits Beukema and Wim van der Wurff (eds.), pp. 205–244 | Article
2001 Negative polarity and the syntax of taboo Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items, Hoeksema, Jack, Hotze Rullmann, Víctor Sánchez-Valencia and Ton van der Wouden (eds.), pp. 283–330 | Article
1996 The nature of quantification of high-degree: 'very', 'many', and the exclamative Linguistics in the Netherlands 1996, Cremers, Crit and Marcel den Dikken (eds.), pp. 207–220 | Article
1995 Zero Semantics — The syntactic encoding of quantificational meaning Linguistics in the Netherlands 1995, Dikken, Marcel den and Kees Hengeveld (eds.), pp. 175–190 | Article
1994 The indefinite reading of WH Linguistics in the Netherlands 1994, Bok-Bennema, Reineke and Crit Cremers (eds.), pp. 187–198 | Article