Jan Koster

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

Koster, Jan 2007 

Structure preservingness, internal Merge, and the strict locality of triads

Phrasal and Clausal Architecture: Syntactic derivation and interpretation, Karimi, Simin, Vida Samiian and Wendy K. Wilkins (eds.), pp. 188–205 | Article
This paper examines Emonds’ Structure Preserving Hypothesis, and suggests that the insight behind this hypothesis survives reformulation in terms of recent minimalist theory: each structure created by internal merge can also, independently, be created by external merge. As before, this makes… read more
The theory of ritual presented in this article is based on the notion of “territory.” Ritual performance encompasses a set of techniques to affect the identity of participants: away from individuality and by communal demarcation of a symbolic territorial model in space or time. The form of ritual… read more
Koster, Jan 2001 1. Linguistics, historicism and the humanitiesReflections on Language and Language Learning: In honour of Arthur van Essen, Bax, Marcel and Jan-Wouter Zwart (eds.), pp. 3–19 | Chapter
Koster, Jan and Jan-Wouter Zwart 2000 Transitive expletive constructions and the object shift parameterLinguistics in the Netherlands 2000, Hoop, Helen de and Ton van der Wouden (eds.), pp. 159–170 | Article