Merijn de Dreu

Datos Biográficos

ID8928767
NOMBREMerijn de Dreu
NOMBRESMerijn
APELLIDOde Dreu
FIRMADE DREU M
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Amsterdam
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS2
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR2
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2012
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2013
ÍNDICE H0

  • Subject raising in Zulu and the nature of PredP

    Leston Chandler Buell, Leston Buell et al.ARTICLEThe Linguistic Review2013

    The Bantu language Zulu has several types of predication in which no verb appears: adjectival and nominal predication, locative and possessive predication, and two types of existential predication. We show that these predication types differ from verbal predication in generally disallowing an internal subject (i.e., an unraised external argument), even in the case of nominal predication, which seemingly displays the unraised subject agreement pat…

  • Neuter gender in a sexless language

    Open AccessMerijn de Dreu, Leston BuellARTICLELinguistics in the Netherlands2012

    In some Germanic languages, neuter gender is used both as a lexical gender and for certain grammatical functions, while in Romance languages, neuter gender is only employed for grammatical functions. Zulu, a Bantu language, has a much more elaborate noun class system than those languages, but one not rooted in sex or animacy as in Germanic or Romance. However, it is shown that Zulu noun class 17 is used for the same range of grammatical functions…