Johan van der Auwera

List of John Benjamins publications for which Johan van der Auwera plays a role.

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Postverbal negation

Edited by Olga Krasnoukhova, Johan van der Auwera and Mily Crevels

Special issue of Studies in Language 45:3 (2021) v, 208 pp.
Subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

Modal Verbs in Germanic and Romance Languages

Edited by Johan van der Auwera and Patrick Dendale

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 14] 2000. vi, 264 pp.
Subjects Germanic linguistics | Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax

Universals of Language

Edited by Michel Kefer and Johan van der Auwera

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 4] 1989. 192 pp.
Subjects Theoretical linguistics
Subjects Cognition and language | Philosophy | Pragmatics | Semantics
Subjects Pragmatics | Semantics

Articles

Krasnoukhova, Olga, Johan van der Auwera and Mily Crevels 2021 Postverbal negation: Typology, diachrony, arealityPostverbal negation, Krasnoukhova, Olga, Johan van der Auwera and Mily Crevels (eds.), pp. 499–519 | Introduction
The paper sketches the state of affairs of our understanding of postverbal negation. It departs from the typological finding that there is a cross-linguistic preference for a negator to precede the verb. Nevertheless, a sizable proportion of the world’s languages adhere to a pattern with a… read more
Krasnoukhova, Olga and Johan van der Auwera 2019 Negation in Kulina: A double polarity swapJournal of Historical Linguistics 9:2, pp. 208–238 | Article
This study reconstructs the development of a negative existential and a negative pro-sentence in the Arawan language Kulina (Brazil-Peru). We demonstrate that the two elements forming the negative existential construction nowe (hi)ra- are involved in a double polarity swap: (i) an originally… read more
Auwera, Johan van der 2017 Englishes, English creoles and their negative indefinitesNegation and Contact: With special focus on Singapore English, Ziegeler, Debra and Zhiming Bao (eds.), pp. 115–149 | Article
This is a typological study of negative indefinites, i.e., the counterparts to standard English nobody and nothing, in Englishes, primarily the New Englishes, and in English Creoles. Particular attention goes to “Negative Concord” (“NC”), i.e. the exponence of negation through both a negative… read more
Auwera, Johan van der and Frens Vossen 2017 Kiranti double negation: A copula conjectureLinguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 40:1, pp. 40–58 | Article
It is shown how Kiranti languages often express a semantically single clausal negation of a declarative verbal main clause with two clausal negators. We conjecture that the second negator has its origin in a copula and that the reinterpretation and integration of the copula into a negative… read more
Auwera, Johan van der and Frens Vossen 2016 Jespersen cycles in the Mayan, Quechuan and Maipurean languages*Cyclical Change Continued, Gelderen, Elly van (ed.), pp. 189–218 | Article
This study looks for evidence for the Jespersen Cycle, which is typically the development from one single negator to another one via a strengthening stage in which both are present, in the Mayan, Quechuan and Maipurean languages. For Mayan and Quechuan languages the evidence is solid, and what is… read more
Auwera, Johan van der and Lauren Van Alsenoy 2016 On the typology of negative concordStudies in Language 40:3, pp. 473–512 | Article
This paper has three main points. First, contrary to what is often stated, negative concord is not all that frequent and certainly not the most frequent strategy to express single clausal negation in a clause with an indefinite noun phrase or adverbial in the scope of the negation. Second, the… read more
Alsenoy, Lauren Van and Johan van der Auwera 2015 Indefinite pronouns in Uralic languagesNegation in Uralic Languages, Miestamo, Matti, Anne Tamm and Beáta Wagner-Nagy (eds.), pp. 517–546 | Article
In this paper, different types of indefinite pronouns and adverbs that can occur in negative sentences in the Uralic languages will be described and discussed against a wider typological background. It will be shown that Uralic languages display the typological default strategy as to the… read more
This chapter uses Factiva® to examine recent evolution in the occurrence of verbal modal expressions in the Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post, in contrast with American and British newspapers. Previous research established that the frequency of the modals is decreasing in both British… read more
Alsenoy, Lauren Van and Johan van der Auwera 2014 On the relation between double clausal negation and negative concordThe Diachrony of Negation, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Jacqueline Visconti (eds.), pp. 13–46 | Article
Negative concord and double clausal negation are separate phenomena, which show some striking similarities, the main similarity being the fact that negation is formally expressed more than once, but semantically only once. These similarities have led scholars to hypothesize on whether and how these… read more
Vossen, Frens and Johan van der Auwera 2014 The Jespersen cycles seen from AustronesianThe Diachrony of Negation, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Jacqueline Visconti (eds.), pp. 47–82 | Article
Most work on the so-called ‘Jespersen Cycle’ has been done on the languages of Europe, less on languages of Africa. In this paper the authors look at Austronesian languages, with the aim to determine to what extent Austronesian doubling is compatible with a Jespersen cycle scenario. The properties… read more
Auwera, Johan van der 2013 Semantic maps, for synchronic and diachronic typologySynchrony and Diachrony: A dynamic interface, Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Caterina Mauri and Piera Molinelli (eds.), pp. 153–176 | Article
This paper presents classical maps as accounts of both the synchronic polysemy of constructions and of their gradual semantic developments. This presentation is set against the background of a critique of the usefulness of classical semantic maps, voiced by the proponents of a newer kind of map, a… read more
Gast, Volker and Johan van der Auwera 2013 Chapter 6. Scalar additive operators in Transeurasian languages: A comparison with EuropeShared Grammaticalization: With special focus on the Transeurasian languages, Robbeets, Martine and Hubert Cuyckens (eds.), pp. 113–146 | Chapter
This article provides a survey of scalar additive operators such as Turkish bile, Japanese sae, Korean cocha ‘even’, etc. and related expressions in a sample of thirteen Transeurasian languages. The data is presented and interpreted against the background of evidence from European languages and… read more
Auwera, Johan van der 2012 From contrastive linguistics to linguistic typologyContrastive Linguistics and other Approaches to Language Comparison, Hüning, Matthias and Barbara Schlücker (eds.), pp. 69–86 | Article
The paper looks back at Hawkins (1986), A comparative typology of English and German, and shows, on the basis of raising and human impersonal pronouns in English, Dutch and German, that contrastive linguistics can be viewed as a pilot study in typology. It also pleads for doing the contrastive… read more
Auwera, Johan van der, Dirk Noël and Astrid De Wit 2012 The diverging need (to)’s of Asian EnglishesMapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide: Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes, Hundt, Marianne and Ulrike Gut (eds.), pp. 55–76 | Article
This paper proffers a corpus-based study of the modal auxiliary need and its lexical counterpart need to in four Asian varieties of English, viz. Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippine and Indian English, in comparison to British and American English. We investigate the distribution of need and need to… read more
Coussé, Evie and Johan van der Auwera 2012 Human impersonal pronouns in Swedish and Dutch: A contrastive study of man and menLanguages in Contrast 12:2, pp. 121–138 | Article
This paper presents a contrastive study of the human impersonal pronouns man in Swedish and men in Dutch. Both impersonal pronouns are etymologically derived from man ‘human being’ and they more or less have the same meaning. However, there are important differences in the usage of these pronouns.… read more
Auwera, Johan van der 2009 Chapter 3. The Jespersen cyclesCyclical Change, Gelderen, Elly van (ed.) | Article
Auwera, Johan van der, Petar Kehayov and Alice Vittrant 2009 Acquisitive modalsCross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality, Hogeweg, Lotte, Helen de Hoop and Andrej L. Malchukov (eds.), pp. 271–302 | Article
The paper explores the fact that ‘get’ etymons may acquire modal meanings. It tries to fit this fact into the modal map proposal of van der Auwera & Plungian (1998) and concludes that the map has to be revised, in part because the lexical input, the predicates meaning ‘get/acquire’ allow more than… read more
Auwera, Johan van der and Hana Filip 2008 (Tense), aspect, mood and modality – an imperfect 2008 state of the art reportUnity and Diversity of Languages, Sterkenburg, Piet van (ed.), pp. 201–214 | Article
De Cuypere, Ludovic, Johan van der Auwera and Klaas Willems 2007 Double negation and iconicityInsistent Images, Tabakowska, Elżbieta, Christina Ljungberg and Olga Fischer (eds.), pp. 301–320 | Article
Typological research suggests that double negation - the use of two negative markers to denote one negative meaning - is a popular strategy amongst a wide variety of languages. This paper focuses on two types of double negation. The first type, exemplified by Fr. Je ne chante pas ‘I don’t sing’,… read more
Auwera, Johan van der, Ludovic De Cuypere and Annemie Neuckermans 2006 Negative indefinites: A typological and diachronic perspective on a Brabantic constructionTypes of Variation: Diachronic, dialectal and typological interfaces, Nevalainen, Terttu, Juhani Klemola and Mikko Laitinen (eds.), pp. 305–319 | Article
Auwera, Johan van der and Ewa Schalley 2004 From optative and subjunctive to irrealisSeduction, Community, Speech: A Festschrift for Herman Parret, Brisard, Frank, Michael Meeuwis and Bart Vandenabeele (eds.), pp. 87–96 | Chapter
Montoliu, César and Johan van der Auwera 2004 On Judeo-Spanish conditionalsBalkan Syntax and Semantics, Mišeska Tomić, Olga (ed.), pp. 461–474 | Article
Auwera, Johan van der 2002 More thoughts on degrammaticalizationNew Reflections on Grammaticalization, Wischer, Ilse and Gabriele Diewald (eds.), pp. 19–29 | Article
Auwera, Johan van der 2001 On the typology of negative modalsPerspectives on Negation and Polarity Items, Hoeksema, Jack, Hotze Rullmann, Víctor Sánchez-Valencia and Ton van der Wouden (eds.), pp. 23–48 | Article
Auwera, Johan van der and Bert Bultinck 2001 On the lexical typology of modals, quantifiers, and connectivesPerspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse: A Festschrift for Ferenc Kiefer, Kenesei, István and Robert M. Harnish (eds.), pp. 173–186 | Article
Auwera, Johan van der and Patrick Dendale 2000 IntroductionModal Verbs in Germanic and Romance Languages, Auwera, Johan van der and Patrick Dendale (eds.), pp. v–vi | Miscellaneous
Auwera, Johan van der 1999 Dutch Verbal Prefixes: Meaning and form, grammaticalization and lexicalizationBoundaries of Morphology and Syntax, Mereu, Lunella (ed.), pp. 121 ff. | Article
Auwera, Johan van der 1997 Conditional perfectionOn Conditionals Again, Athanasiadou, Angeliki and René Dirven † (eds.), pp. 169 ff. | Article
Auwera, Johan van der 1992 Free RelativesLayered Structure and Reference in a Functional Perspective: Papers from the Functional Grammar Conference, Copenhagen, 1990, Fortescue, Michael, Peter Harder and Lars Kristoffersen (eds.), pp. 329 ff. | Article
Kefer, Michel and Johan van der Auwera 1989 IntroductionUniversals of Language, Kefer, Michel and Johan van der Auwera (eds.), pp. 7–8 | Miscellaneous
König, Ekkehard and Johan van der Auwera 1988 Clause integration in German and Dutch conditionals, concessive conditionals, and concessivesClause Combining in Grammar and Discourse, Haiman, John and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 101 ff. | Article
Auwera, Johan van der 1983 On the Relativization of Embedded SubjectsStudies in Language 7:2, pp. 277–281 | Miscellaneous
Auwera, Johan van der 1983 Review of Pollock (1982): Language and ThoughtStudies in Language 7:3, pp. 451–454 | Review
Auwera, Johan van der 1982 Extraposition and Permutation in PortugueseLingvisticæ Investigationes 6:2, pp. 403–404 | Discussion