Johan Van Der Van Der Auwera
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 2129247 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Johan Van Der Van Der Auwera |
| NOMBRES | Johan |
| APELLIDO | Van Der Van Der Auwera |
| FIRMA | VAN DER AUWERA J D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Antwerp |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9222-2994 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 211 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
At ( the ( very )) least in English
The article critically reviews the main claims in the recent literature on the semantics of English at least , at the least and at the very least , as members of a larger family of scalar markers, and it focuses on the common meaning of at least , at the least and at the very least. This semantic ‘common core’ is described in terms of a scalar component, a positive component and a restrictive component. The context can highlight the latter two co…
Negative Indefinite Constructions in Bantu
This paper presents a first typology of negative indefinites in Bantu languages. The lack of interest in expressions of 'nobody' in Bantu languages is connected with the idea that they merely involve a generic noun for 'person' and main clause negation. Our study, based on a dataset of 85 Bantu languages, shows that exponents of 'nobody' can be quite diverse, either resembling exponents of 'somebody' or differing from them through the use of prag…
Standard negation
This study compares standard negation in the indigenous languages of South America to the rest of the world. We show that South American languages not only prefer postverbal negation to preverbal negation and negative morphology to syntax, but postverbal morphological negation to any other negation strategy. The predominance of this strategy makes South America distinct from other macro-areas. The study also considers the areal distribution of ne…
Mixtec negative existential cycles, standard negation and negative indefiniteness
Existential indefinite constructions, in the world and in Mainland Southeast Asia
In some languages assertions about ‘somebody’ or ‘nobody’ are existential in a strong sense, i.e. they need or prominently allow an explicit syntactic marker of existence (‘there is’, ‘exist’). This paper presents a state-of-the-art typology of existential indefinite constructions and finds the typological understanding to be inconclusive in many respects. The paper responds to this inconclusiveness with a study of the existential indefinite cons…
The Aspectual Meaning of Non-Aspectual Constructions
The distinction between perfective and imperfective aspect has been identified in many languages across the world. This paper shows that even languages that do not have a dedicated perfective-imperfective distinction may endow a verbal construction that is not specifically aspectual with a perfective value. The crucial diagnostic for identifying perfectivity in a given non-aspectual construction is a difference in the temporal interpretation of c…
Revisiting postverbal standard negation in the Jê languages
In the Jê languages standard negators tend to take a post-verbal position. This paper asks why this should be the case and therefore discusses earlier accounts relating Jê standard negators to either negative verbs or privative postpositions. We argue that these accounts do not have to exclude each other. In particular, we propose that an existential negator can be reanalyzed as a privative one. We also argue that if the origin of the standard ne…
Nominal and pronominal negative concord, through the lens of Belizean and Jamaican Creole
The article aims to advance the general understanding of negative concord through a comparative analysis of nominal and pronominal negative concord in Jamaican and Belizean Creole, based on the translations of the New Testament. It supplies a general characterization of Jamaican and Belizean negative concord and then focuses on negative concord with a negator like what corresponds to Englishnotand either a pronoun or a nominal like what correspon…
Bespreking van Seuren (1975)
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Guahiboan negation
The Guahiboan languages show interesting variation in the expression of standard, ascriptive, existential and prohibitive negation. We aim to account for some of the variation with reference to the general typology of negation and to familyinternal evidence. It focusses on three unusual features and thus enriches the general understanding of negation: (i) Existential negators can join standard negators, adding emphasis and eventually replace the …
Postverbal negation
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 negator following the verb, and such negators are typically morphologically bound. The existence of this pattern, unfavorable from a functional perspective, ca…
The Typology of Negation
This chapter discusses a number of central phenomena in the typology of negation, building on state-of-the-art typological research. The focus lies on standard negation, prohibitive negation, existential negation, and the negation of indefinites. Cross-linguistic variation is central in the discussion, and for most phenomena the question is addressed as to what extent a certain pattern is frequent or rare. As far as it is possible, observed patte…
Such similatives
Standard negation in Chibchan
This paper surveys the form and the position of the negators of declarative verbal main clauses in the Chibchan languages. It attempts to describe the similarities and the differences, and it ventures hypotheses about the diachrony, primarily with an appeal to the Jespersen and Negative Existential Cycles. It sketches if and how the negators fit more general areal patterning, in particular, the Columbian Central American linguistic area
Negative Concord in Jamaican
This study aims to account for some dimensions of the strictness and of what will be called the ‘range’ of Negative Concord in Jamaican (also ‘Jamaican Creole’ or ‘Patwa’) and in so doing to increase our typological understanding of Negative Concord. As to the strictness, parameters will be the position of the negative indefinite relative to the verb, the pronominal vs. nominal nature of the negative indefinite, and the phonetic closeness of posi…
South-Asian similatives
Zaparoan negation revisited
The paper revisits negation in the Zaparoan languages Arabela, Iquito and Záparo. For Iquito, which exhibits single, double as well as triple negation, we adopt a Jespersen Cycle perspective and find it to have explanatory force. For Záparo and Arabela another Cycle hypothesis proves enlightening, i.e., the Negative Existential Cycle. We hypothesize that both in Iquito and Záparo there is a diachronic link between the formal expression of negatio…
On the typology of negative concord
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 subtype of negative concord called ‘strict negative concord’ is much more frequent than the subtype of ‘non-strict negative concord’. These two claims are …
Negation, Linguistics of
The History of Modality and Mood
This chapter traces the current understanding of mood (or mode) and modality back in time, in the Western tradition, giving pride of place to F. R. Palmer, G. H. von Wright, I. Kant, Priscian, Quintilian, Dionysius Thrax, Apollonius Dyscolus, and Protagoras. It sketches how there were and still are at least four different notions of mood, the domain of which was progressively taken over by a notion of modality. It also sketches the tradi¬tion of …
On negation, indefinites, and negative indefinites in Yiddish
Linguistics , the first fifty years … and a little more
This special issue is a very special issue. It celebrates the journal's fiftieth anniversary, and to that purpose we are reprinting five of its most important articles, one for each decade. For its sixth decade we include an article that was going to be published, in a regular fashion, but in the end never was, because the author passed away. In Section 3 these six articles are put into a wider perspective. Sections 1 and 2 describe how the journ…
Jespersen cycles in Bantu
This paper gives an overview of post-verbal negative marking in Bantu languages. It shows that, although Bantu studies tend to concentrate on negation marked on the verb itself, post-verbal negative markers are well represented within the Bantu domain and high concentrations can be found in zones B, C, H and L. It is argued that locative pronouns, possessive pronouns and negative (answer) particles are recurrent sources of negative markers in Ban…
Irrealis in positive imperatives and in prohibitives
Raising
As a complement to C. B. van Haeringen's classic comparative study (1956) that positioned the grammar of Dutch in between the grammars of English and German, this study compares the productivity of three kinds of “raising” patterns in these languages: Object-to-Subject, Subject-to-Object, and Subject-to-Subject raising. It establishes the extent to which Dutch, as well as English and German, have evolved from the old West Germanic starting point …
Modality's semantic map
The Semantics of Determiners
1. Any as Universal or Existential? Alice Davison 2. On Surface Definite Articles in English John A. Hawkins 3. Coreference and Interreference in Anaphoric Relations: Grammatical Semantics or Pragmatics? Theo Janssen 4. The Meaning of the English Definite Article Christopher G. Lyons 5. Demonstrations and the I-sayer Herman Parret 6. Definite and Indefinite Generics Frank Platteau 7. Determination with and without Articles Victor Raskin 8. Determ…
Pragmatics in the last quarter century
Jespersen cycles in Bantu
This paper gives an overview of post-verbal negative marking in Bantu languages. It shows that, although Bantu studies tend to concentrate on negation marked on the verb itself, post-verbal negative markers are well represented within the Bantu domain and high concentrations can be found in zones B, C, H and L. It is argued that locative pronouns, possessive pronouns and negative (answer) particles are recurrent sources of negative markers in Ban…
Scalar Additive Operators in the Languages of Europe
Scalar additive operators, such as Engl. even , Fr. même, Germ. sogar , Sp. aun , and so forth, vary crosslinguistically in terms of their distributional behavior, in particular with respect to semantic and pragmatic properties of the sentential environment (scale-reversing vs. scale-preserving, negative vs. nonnegative). This article proposes a semantic framework for the crosslinguistic analysis of scalar additive operators and a typology based …
The History of Modality and Mood
This chapter traces the current understanding of mood (or mode) and modality back in time, in the Western tradition, giving pride of place to F. R. Palmer, G. H. von Wright, I. Kant, Priscian, Quintilian, Dionysius Thrax, Apollonius Dyscolus, and Protagoras. It sketches how there were and still are at least four different notions of mood, the domain of which was progressively taken over by a notion of modality. It also sketches the tradi¬tion of …
Relative that – a centennial dispute
But it would only be fair to add that there is still an essential difference between the hope that never dies and the hope that it was all wrong . (Van der Laan, 1929: 28)
The Aspectual Meaning of Non-Aspectual Constructions
The distinction between perfective and imperfective aspect has been identified in many languages across the world. This paper shows that even languages that do not have a dedicated perfective-imperfective distinction may endow a verbal construction that is not specifically aspectual with a perfective value. The crucial diagnostic for identifying perfectivity in a given non-aspectual construction is a difference in the temporal interpretation of c…
Conditionals and antecedent possibilities
On the meanings of basic speech acts
Revisiting the Balkan and Meso-American linguistic areas
Ins and Outs of the Predication
Existential indefinite constructions, in the world and in Mainland Southeast Asia
In some languages assertions about ‘somebody’ or ‘nobody’ are existential in a strong sense, i.e. they need or prominently allow an explicit syntactic marker of existence (‘there is’, ‘exist’). This paper presents a state-of-the-art typology of existential indefinite constructions and finds the typological understanding to be inconclusive in many respects. The paper responds to this inconclusiveness with a study of the existential indefinite cons…
Such similatives
Revisiting Be Supposed To from a Diachronic Constructionist Perspective
Mixtec negative existential cycles, standard negation and negative indefiniteness
Nominal and pronominal negative concord, through the lens of Belizean and Jamaican Creole
The article aims to advance the general understanding of negative concord through a comparative analysis of nominal and pronominal negative concord in Jamaican and Belizean Creole, based on the translations of the New Testament. It supplies a general characterization of Jamaican and Belizean negative concord and then focuses on negative concord with a negator like what corresponds to Englishnotand either a pronoun or a nominal like what correspon…
Zaparoan negation revisited
The paper revisits negation in the Zaparoan languages Arabela, Iquito and Záparo. For Iquito, which exhibits single, double as well as triple negation, we adopt a Jespersen Cycle perspective and find it to have explanatory force. For Záparo and Arabela another Cycle hypothesis proves enlightening, i.e., the Negative Existential Cycle. We hypothesize that both in Iquito and Záparo there is a diachronic link between the formal expression of negatio…
The Future in Modern Greek
Th e new book by Th eodore Markopoulos (2009) on the diachrony of the Greek future tense is subjected here to a thorough evaluation and is found to be a major and important contribution. Still, correctives are off ered to some analyses and to claims made about grammaticalization here
Pronoun or conjunction — the Serbo-Croatian invariant relativizer što
Speech act phenomenology
On the meanings of basic speech acts
The Semantics of Determiners
1. Any as Universal or Existential? Alice Davison 2. On Surface Definite Articles in English John A. Hawkins 3. Coreference and Interreference in Anaphoric Relations: Grammatical Semantics or Pragmatics? Theo Janssen 4. The Meaning of the English Definite Article Christopher G. Lyons 5. Demonstrations and the I-sayer Herman Parret 6. Definite and Indefinite Generics Frank Platteau 7. Determination with and without Articles Victor Raskin 8. Determ…
Writings of Charles S. Peirce. A Chronological Edition. Vol. I. 1857–1866
On the Relativization of Embedded Subjects
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Introduction — Tasks for conditionalists
Predication and expression in functional grammar
Conditionals and antecedent possibilities
That Comp-fusions
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 660-673
More on the History of Subject Contact Clauses in English
Relative that – a centennial dispute
But it would only be fair to add that there is still an essential difference between the hope that never dies and the hope that it was all wrong . (Van der Laan, 1929: 28)
Pronoun or conjunction — the Serbo-Croatian invariant relativizer što
Ins and Outs of the Predication
Meaning and Grammar
Modality
This paper analyses the semantic and pragmatic relations between the notions of possibility and necessity and of their negations. In so doing it reconciles insights stemming from Aristotle and partially different ones expounded by Hintikka, Horn, and LÖbner on the basic quadripartite, tripartite, and scalar nature of the field of modality. From Aristotle and his commentators it maintains the Aristotelian square and the view that possibility has t…
Pragmatics in the last quarter century
Phasal adverbials in the languages of Europe
Eurotyp, 3, Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe
Modality's semantic map
Revisiting the Balkan and Meso-American linguistic areas
Les verbes modaux
Ce volume regroupe dix études sur les verbes modaux, en français, en anglais ou en latin, qui ont été présentées lors du colloque Les verbes modaux dans les langues germaniques et romanes, organisé à l’université d’Anvers (UFSIA) en décembre 1998. Il commence par une étude générale sur la typologie des catégories modales et la conception de la modalité par B. Pottier (A. Ouattara), réunit ensuite cinq études sur les verbes devoir (H. Kronning et …
English do
This article surveys the debate on the origin of periphrastic do , with particular attention to the hypothesis that Celtic languages might have exerted some influence. With respect to the facts, it is argued that there are various types of Celtic hypotheses and that one type is sensible, though unlikely to be proven and even less likely to be proven to be the only relevant factor. With respect to the debate itself, it is shown that a Celtic origi…
On no one's Typology
In defense of classical semantic maps
Acquisitive modals
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 one reading, an agentive and a receptive one. The paper focuses on the two areas in which so-called ‘acquisitiv modality’ is very prominent, viz. North…
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