Peter De Swart
Biographic Data
| ID | 1453820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter De Swart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | De Swart |
| SIGNATURE | DE SWART P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5379-5180 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The grammar curriculum through the eyes of Dutch primary school teachers
Contains fulltext : 325582.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Masculine generic pronouns as a gender cue in generic statements
n Contains fulltext :\n 288194.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
The effect of filler complexity and context on the acceptability of wh -island violations in Dutch
Acceptability judgements of syntactic island violations are often claimed to improve by either increasing the complexity of the wh -filler phrase or integrating the violating sentence into a discourse. In two acceptability judgement tasks, we looked at wh -island violations in Dutch by varying the complexity of the filler phrase and by presenting the sentences either in isolation or with a preceding discourse. We found that neither variable had a…
Cognitive animacy and its relation to linguistic animacy: Evidence from Japanese and Persian
Animacy, commonly defined as the distinction between living and non-living entities, is a useful notion in cognitive science and linguistics employed to describe and predict variation in psychological and linguistic behaviour. In the (psycho)linguistics literature we find linguistic animacy dichotomies which are (implicitly) assumed to correspond to biological dichotomies. We argue this is problematic, as it leaves us without a cognitively ground…
How Animacy and Verbal Information Influence V2 Sentence Processing: Evidence from Eye Movements
There exists a clear association between animacy and the grammatical function of transitive subject. The grammar of some languages require the transitive subject to be high in animacy, or at least higher than the object. A similar animacy preference has been observed in processing studies in languages without such a categorical animacy effect. This animacy preference has been mainly established in structures in which either one or both arguments …
Shifting animacy
We examine the effects of morphosyntactic marking and selectional restrictions of predicates on conceptual and grammatical animacy. We argue in favour of animacy as an ontological category with human, animate and inanimate entities representing discrete subtypes in the domain of entities. We distinguish between conceptual animacy, which is a gradient notion, and grammatical animacy, for which discrete, binary oppositions are needed. The main aim …
Typical and atypical type-shifts in animacy
First of all, we would like to thank the commentators for their illuminating and inspiring comments, and for the thought-provoking issues they raise.Below we will only briefly address some of these issues, and happily leave the rest to future research.All commentators agree that animacy matters in language, while there is also consensus that languages differ widely from one another in their lexical and grammatical manifestations of animacy distin…
Factors licensing embedded present tense in speech reports
According to Ogihara (1995), the usage of the embedded present in a speech reportsuch as John said that Mary is in the room is restricted by the cause of John’s belief (the statethat made John think that Mary is in the room): the present tense can be used only if thiscause still holds at the time that John said that Mary is in the room is uttered. This paperpresents experimental evidence demonstrating that this is only one of the factors that lic…
Linguistic concepts in L1 grammar education: A systematic literature review
Teaching grammar has always constituted a major part of language education in curricula around the world, although it has also been heavily debated. Most of the debate on grammar teaching focused on the rationales for teaching it, rather than on the linguistic content that should be taught. At the same time, there appears to be a renewed interest in restoring the bond between linguistic theory and grammar education. Previous research has suggeste…
Prepositional inanimates in Dutch: A paradigmatic case of Differential Object Marking
In this paper I examine an animacy-related encoding alternation in Dutch generally observed with verbs denoting physical contact. This largely unnoticed pattern in Dutch is reminiscent of the phenomenon of differential object marking (DOM) as attested in a large number of languages. I will argue that the Dutch pattern should indeed be interpreted as DOM albeit of a specific type. I claim Dutch DOM to be an instance of paradigmatic DOM used to sig…
Mapping out the Source domain: Evidence from parallel Old Indo-European data
This paper takes a strictly empirical approach to the encoding of spatial notions in the four ancient Indo-European languages Ancient Greek, Latin, Gothic and Old Church Slavonic. By generating semantic maps on the basis of parallel corpus data, without any semantic pre-analysis, we use methods well tested in typology to study the basic divisions in the spatial domain in the four closely-related languages, and to determine the finer subdivisions …
A (single) case for heritage speakers
A Source of Variation: A Corpus-Based Study of the Choice between απο and εκ in the NT Greek Gospels
Using a quantitative methodology based on extensively annotated corpus data from the PROIEL corpus, we examine the distribution of απο and εκ in the NT Greek Gospels. The original semantic opposition between these two prepositions in terms of an ablative-elative distinction started fading during the historical development of Greek and has been argued to be already much weaker at the time of the New Testament. To explore this we generate a semanti…
Case and referential properties
Animacy, argument structure, and argument encoding
Case, Valency and Transitivity
The three concepts of case , valency and transitivity belong to the most discussed topics of modern linguistics. On the one hand, they are crucially connected with morphological aspects of the clause, including case marking, person agreement and voice. On the other hand, they are related to several semantic issues such as the meaning of case, semantico-syntactic verbal classes, and the semantic correlates of transitivity. The volume unifies paper…
Cross-modularity in active to passive alternations
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Animacy, argument structure, and argument encoding
Linguistic concepts in L1 grammar education: A systematic literature review
Teaching grammar has always constituted a major part of language education in curricula around the world, although it has also been heavily debated. Most of the debate on grammar teaching focused on the rationales for teaching it, rather than on the linguistic content that should be taught. At the same time, there appears to be a renewed interest in restoring the bond between linguistic theory and grammar education. Previous research has suggeste…
Case and referential properties
Cognitive animacy and its relation to linguistic animacy: Evidence from Japanese and Persian
Animacy, commonly defined as the distinction between living and non-living entities, is a useful notion in cognitive science and linguistics employed to describe and predict variation in psychological and linguistic behaviour. In the (psycho)linguistics literature we find linguistic animacy dichotomies which are (implicitly) assumed to correspond to biological dichotomies. We argue this is problematic, as it leaves us without a cognitively ground…
Masculine generic pronouns as a gender cue in generic statements
n Contains fulltext :\n 288194.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Prepositional inanimates in Dutch: A paradigmatic case of Differential Object Marking
In this paper I examine an animacy-related encoding alternation in Dutch generally observed with verbs denoting physical contact. This largely unnoticed pattern in Dutch is reminiscent of the phenomenon of differential object marking (DOM) as attested in a large number of languages. I will argue that the Dutch pattern should indeed be interpreted as DOM albeit of a specific type. I claim Dutch DOM to be an instance of paradigmatic DOM used to sig…
Cross-modularity in active to passive alternations
Preview this article: Cross-modularity in active to passive alternations, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/avt.22.18swa-1.gif
Case, Valency and Transitivity
The three concepts of case , valency and transitivity belong to the most discussed topics of modern linguistics. On the one hand, they are crucially connected with morphological aspects of the clause, including case marking, person agreement and voice. On the other hand, they are related to several semantic issues such as the meaning of case, semantico-syntactic verbal classes, and the semantic correlates of transitivity. The volume unifies paper…
Animacy, argument structure, and argument encoding
Case and referential properties
A Source of Variation: A Corpus-Based Study of the Choice between απο and εκ in the NT Greek Gospels
Using a quantitative methodology based on extensively annotated corpus data from the PROIEL corpus, we examine the distribution of απο and εκ in the NT Greek Gospels. The original semantic opposition between these two prepositions in terms of an ablative-elative distinction started fading during the historical development of Greek and has been argued to be already much weaker at the time of the New Testament. To explore this we generate a semanti…
Mapping out the Source domain: Evidence from parallel Old Indo-European data
This paper takes a strictly empirical approach to the encoding of spatial notions in the four ancient Indo-European languages Ancient Greek, Latin, Gothic and Old Church Slavonic. By generating semantic maps on the basis of parallel corpus data, without any semantic pre-analysis, we use methods well tested in typology to study the basic divisions in the spatial domain in the four closely-related languages, and to determine the finer subdivisions …
A (single) case for heritage speakers
Prepositional inanimates in Dutch: A paradigmatic case of Differential Object Marking
In this paper I examine an animacy-related encoding alternation in Dutch generally observed with verbs denoting physical contact. This largely unnoticed pattern in Dutch is reminiscent of the phenomenon of differential object marking (DOM) as attested in a large number of languages. I will argue that the Dutch pattern should indeed be interpreted as DOM albeit of a specific type. I claim Dutch DOM to be an instance of paradigmatic DOM used to sig…
Shifting animacy
We examine the effects of morphosyntactic marking and selectional restrictions of predicates on conceptual and grammatical animacy. We argue in favour of animacy as an ontological category with human, animate and inanimate entities representing discrete subtypes in the domain of entities. We distinguish between conceptual animacy, which is a gradient notion, and grammatical animacy, for which discrete, binary oppositions are needed. The main aim …
Typical and atypical type-shifts in animacy
First of all, we would like to thank the commentators for their illuminating and inspiring comments, and for the thought-provoking issues they raise.Below we will only briefly address some of these issues, and happily leave the rest to future research.All commentators agree that animacy matters in language, while there is also consensus that languages differ widely from one another in their lexical and grammatical manifestations of animacy distin…
Factors licensing embedded present tense in speech reports
According to Ogihara (1995), the usage of the embedded present in a speech reportsuch as John said that Mary is in the room is restricted by the cause of John’s belief (the statethat made John think that Mary is in the room): the present tense can be used only if thiscause still holds at the time that John said that Mary is in the room is uttered. This paperpresents experimental evidence demonstrating that this is only one of the factors that lic…
Linguistic concepts in L1 grammar education: A systematic literature review
Teaching grammar has always constituted a major part of language education in curricula around the world, although it has also been heavily debated. Most of the debate on grammar teaching focused on the rationales for teaching it, rather than on the linguistic content that should be taught. At the same time, there appears to be a renewed interest in restoring the bond between linguistic theory and grammar education. Previous research has suggeste…
How Animacy and Verbal Information Influence V2 Sentence Processing: Evidence from Eye Movements
There exists a clear association between animacy and the grammatical function of transitive subject. The grammar of some languages require the transitive subject to be high in animacy, or at least higher than the object. A similar animacy preference has been observed in processing studies in languages without such a categorical animacy effect. This animacy preference has been mainly established in structures in which either one or both arguments …
The effect of filler complexity and context on the acceptability of wh -island violations in Dutch
Acceptability judgements of syntactic island violations are often claimed to improve by either increasing the complexity of the wh -filler phrase or integrating the violating sentence into a discourse. In two acceptability judgement tasks, we looked at wh -island violations in Dutch by varying the complexity of the filler phrase and by presenting the sentences either in isolation or with a preceding discourse. We found that neither variable had a…
Cognitive animacy and its relation to linguistic animacy: Evidence from Japanese and Persian
Animacy, commonly defined as the distinction between living and non-living entities, is a useful notion in cognitive science and linguistics employed to describe and predict variation in psychological and linguistic behaviour. In the (psycho)linguistics literature we find linguistic animacy dichotomies which are (implicitly) assumed to correspond to biological dichotomies. We argue this is problematic, as it leaves us without a cognitively ground…
Masculine generic pronouns as a gender cue in generic statements
n Contains fulltext :\n 288194.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
The grammar curriculum through the eyes of Dutch primary school teachers
Contains fulltext : 325582.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Linguistics (17 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (9 works) · Animacy (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works)