Astrid De Wit

Datos Biográficos

ID3851476
NOMBREAstrid De Wit
NOMBRESAstrid
APELLIDODe Wit
FIRMADE WIT A
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Antwerp
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAS10
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2012
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2023
ÍNDICE H2

  • A functional typology of Dutch insubordinate infinitives

    Anouk Van den Stock, Arjen De Wit et al.ARTICLENederlandse taalkunde2023

    This paper aims to offer a typology of Dutch insubordinate infinitives, which, following Evans’s (2007) definition of insubordination, are defined as ‘the main clause use’ of infinitival constructions. The main objectives of this paper are to provide a pragmatic analysis of these constructions in Dutch and, through cross-linguistic comparison, investigate whether their attested pragmatic functions correspond to the pragmatic functions of (a) insu…

  • Standing out with the progressive

    Open AccessArjen De Wit, Astrid De Wit et al.ARTICLEJournal of Linguistics2020Citada por: 2Referencias: 3

    In this paper we demonstrate on the basis of diachronic and synchronic data from a variety of languages that progressives are particularly liable to be used for the expression of extravagance. We define extravagant language use as a signaling mechanism that consists in the exploitation of an unconventional construction in a given context as a way for speakers to indicate that there is something non-canonical about the situation that they are repo…

  • (Inter)subjective uses of the Dutch progressive constructions

    Open AccessLynn Anthonissen, Arjen De Wit et al.ARTICLELinguistics2019Citada por: 2Referencias: 35

    This paper addresses the (inter)subjective functions of progressive aspect in Dutch. While the aspectual profile of the various Dutch progressive constructions has received considerable attention in the last few years, much less attention has been paid to their non-aspectual uses. As we will demonstrate in this paper on the basis of a corpus study of spoken Dutch, complemented with native-speaker elicitations, the Dutch progressive constructions …

  • The semantics of the simple tenses and full-verb inversion in English

    Arjen De Wit, Astrid De WitARTICLEConstructions and Frames2018

    This paper offers a fresh perspective on (restrictions on) aspectual coercion, thereby focusing on the essentially epistemic import of aspectual constructions. The case study that I will discuss is the unexpected use of the simple tenses for ongoing event reports in sentences involving full-verb inversion. I will argue that this attestation of the simple present/past in inverted sentences can be analyzed as a kind of aspectual mismatch between th…

  • Aspect Meets Modality

    Open AccessLynn Anthonissen, Arjen De Wit et al.ARTICLEJournal of Germanic Linguistics2016

    This paper presents a corpus-based analysis of the semantics of the German am V-inf sein construction, or am -progressive. Like its English counterpart and many other progressive constructions in the world's languages, the am -progressive is shown to convey not only a variety of aspecto-temporal meanings, but also a range of (inter)subjective qualifications, such as intensification, irritation, and evasiveness. These (inter)subjective connotation…

  • Zero verb marking in Sranan

    Arjen De Wit, Astrid De Wit et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pidgin and Creole…2014

    In the Surinamese creole language Sranan, verbs in finite clauses that lack overt TMA-marking are often considered to be ambiguous between past and present interpretations (depending on the lexical aspect of the verb involved) or analyzed as having a perfective value. We claim that these verbs are in fact zero-marked, and we investigate the various uses of this zero expression in relation to context and lexical aspect on the basis of corpus data …

  • A contrastive analysis of the present progressive in French and English

    Arjen De Wit, Astrid De Wit et al.ARTICLEStudies in Language2013

    In this study, we address the semantics of the present progressive constructions in French and English by looking into their present-day uses and their diachronic evolution. Corpus data show that both constructions are frequently used in contemporary English and French to stress the atypical nature of situations. This suggests that these constructions share an epistemic core meaning, which we define as “contingency in immediate reality”. However,…

  • A Cognitive Grammar account of the semantics of the English present progressive

    Open AccessArjen De Wit, Astrid De Wit et al.ARTICLEJournal of Linguistics2013Citada por: 6Referencias: 4

    In this paper, we propose a unified account of the semantics of the English present progressive in the form of a semantic network, basing ourselves on the theoretical principles and analytical tools offered by the theory of Cognitive Grammar, as laid out by Langacker (1987, 1991). The core meaning of the English present progressive, we claim, is to indicate epistemic contingency in the speaker's immediate reality. It thus contrasts with the simpl…

  • The Progressive in Modern English

    Open AccessArjen De Wit, Astrid De WitARTICLELinguistics2012

    Article The Progressive in Modern English: A Corpus-Based Study of Grammaticalization and Related Changes, by Svenja Kranich was published on January 1, 2012 in the journal Linguistics (volume 50, issue 1)