Pieter Muysken
Biographic Data
| ID | 409880 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pieter Muysken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pieter |
| FAMILY NAME | Muysken |
| SIGNATURE | MUYSKEN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4708-5529 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 68 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 239 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 9 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1920 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Clitics in language contact
This commentary focuses on clitics in Spanish and discusses two recent studies that report on clitics in language contact situations: Mayer and Sánchez (2019) on clitics in bilingual Quechua-Spanish and bilingual Shipibo-Spanish varieties, and Jiménez-Gaspar, Pires, and Guijarro-Fuentes (2020) on clitics in Catalan and Spanish in contact. We briefly discuss the properties of clitics in Spanish, followed by their role in language variation and con…
Creolization
Variation and change in grammatical gender marking: The case of Dutch ethnolects
Our research on variation in the expression of grammatical gender (in determiners and adnominal inflection) in present-day ethnolectal Dutch is based on interactional speech data collected among 10–12 and 18–20-year-old male adolescents with Turkish, Moroccan and non-immigrant Dutch backgrounds, born and raised in the Dutch cities of Amsterdam or Nijmegen. The cities, which both have multicultural demographic profiles, are located in different di…
Language Dispersal, Diversification, and Contact
Heritage languages: A language contact approach
Heritage languages, such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in Los Angeles, are non-dominant languages, often with little prestige. Their speakers also speak the dominant language of the country they live in. Often heritage languages undergo changes due to their special status. They have received a lot of scholarly attention and provide a link between academic concerns and educational issues. This book takes a language …
Configurationality: The Typology of Asymmetries
Structural Priming, Levels of Awareness, and Agency in Contact-Induced Language Change
This paper focuses on structural priming, levels of awareness, and agency in contact-induced language change, bringing insights from historical and anthropological linguistics together with psycholinguistic, processing-based approaches. We begin with a discussion of the relation between levels of awareness and agency in the linguistic literature, focusing on the work of Von Humboldt, Silverstein, Van Coetsem, and Trudgill. Then we turn to the psy…
Multilingualism and mixed language in the mines of Potosí (Bolivia)
Using the methodology of historical sociolinguistics, this article explores multilingualism and language contact in the mines of Potosí (Bolivia) in the colonial period. Potosí was the destination of massive migration during its economic heydays around 1610 and one of the largest cities in the Western hemisphere at the time. In the mines special codes were developed, with a specialized lexicon that contains words from different languages. This le…
Introduction: Language in the mines
Dakin, Karen Claudia Parodi Natalie Operstein: Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond
Serial Verb Constructions
Serial verb constructions are sequences of verbs that act together as a single predicate, without any overt marker of coordination, subordination, or syntactic dependency of any other sort. One key question that these constructions pose for grammatical theory is how their lexical and syntactic properties interact. On the one hand, they appear to be lexically determined. On the other hand, the individual verbs are clearly separate verbs assigning …
Multilingüismo Y Lenguaje Mezclado en Las Minas De Potosí (Bolivia)
Este trabajo explora, utilizando la metodologa de la sociolingstica histrica, el multilingismo y el contacto de lenguas en las minas de Potos (Bolivia) en la poca colonial. Potos fue el destino de la inmigracin masiva durante su florecimiento econmico y una de las ciudades ms grandes en el mundo occidental en 1610. En las minas se desarrollaba un cdigo separado, con un lxico especializado que contena palabras de lenguas diferentes. Este lxico fue…
Features and Projections
From Colombo to Athens: Areal and Universalist Perspectives on Bilingual Compound Verbs
Most or all bilingual varieties of the languages spoken in the area between Sri Lanka and Greece have bilingual compound verbs, consisting of a lexical content verb from a donor language and a helping verb from the matrix language. In this paper, these verbs are described and analyzed, and the question is raised whether this widespread occurrence is specifically an areal feature, or a universally available pattern and a question of typological po…
Exploring genealogical blends: The Surinamese Creole cluster and the Virgin Island Dutch Creole cluster
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Connecting approaches to code-switching in West Africa
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Wake up, it is 2013! Commentary on Luiz Amaral and Tom Roeper’s article
Lessons from a Quechua Strongwoman: Ideophony, Dialogue, and Perspective - by Nuckolls, Janis B
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Challenges of comparability
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Language contact outcomes as the result of bilingual optimization strategies
This paper sketches a comprehensive framework for modeling and interpreting language contact phenomena, with speakers' bilingual strategies in specific scenarios of language contact as its point of departure. Bilingual strategies are conditioned by social factors, processing constraints of speakers' bilingual competence, and perceived language distance. In a number of domains of language contact studies important progress has been made, including…
Root/affix asymmetries in contact and transfer: Case studies from the Andes
This article aims to explore the psycholinguistic processing issues, in terms of the type of transfer that they exemplify, needed to account for in the emergence of two mixed languages and a mixed register with a Quechua structure: Media Lengua (Ecuador) and Kallawaya (Bolivia), both relexified varieties within the Quechua language family, and bilingual mixed songs in Peru, waynos. The two issues that require most attention are (1) the mental sta…
Bridges Over Troubled Waters: Theoretical Linguistics and Multilingualism Research
This paper tries to construct a bridge between the concerns of theoretical linguistics and those of multilingualism and code-switching (CS) research. It argues that the primary special point of interaction between these fields lies in the question of potential equivalence between elements or categories, bridging across languages. After giving an overview of some major findings in recent CS research, these findings are interpreted in a constraint-…
Spanish affixes in the Quechua languages: A multidimensional perspective
A Tribute to Norval Smith
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Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund
The relation between the Surinam Creoles and the languages of West Africa, where slaves who created the creoles originated, has been hotly debated. This book argues that the close relationship can be viewed in terms of a Trans Atlantic Sprachbund. It brings in new historical and linguistic evidence for an extremely close relationship between the creoles, the Gbe languages, and Kikongo, where bilingual practices led to new language forms
Language contact outcomes as the result of bilingual optimization strategies
This paper sketches a comprehensive framework for modeling and interpreting language contact phenomena, with speakers' bilingual strategies in specific scenarios of language contact as its point of departure. Bilingual strategies are conditioned by social factors, processing constraints of speakers' bilingual competence, and perceived language distance. In a number of domains of language contact studies important progress has been made, including…
Government and code-mixing
The aim of this paper is to argue that the process of code-mixing is constrained by the government relation that holds between the constituents of a sentence. The government constraint replaces a number of specific constraints that have been proposed in the literature to account for apparently ‘impossible’, ‘ungrammatical’ or ‘non-occurring’ types of intra-sentential switches. Code-mixing is a form of linguistic behaviour which produces utterance…
The UG paradox in L2 acquisition
There is a considerable amount of recent evidence that stable principles of Universal Grammar (UG) are available to adult second language (L2) learners in structuring their intuitions about the target language grammar. In contrast, however, there is also evidence from the acquisition of word order, agreement and negation in German that there are substantial differences between first language (L1) and L2 learners. In our view, these differences ar…
Mixed Categories: Nominalizations in Quechua
1: Introduction.- 1. Towards a Theory of Mixed Categories.- 1.1. Syntactic Categories and Their Projections.- 1.2. Morphology and Syntax.- 1.3. Case.- 1.4. Movement.- 1.5. Complementation versus Relativization.- 1.6. Nominalizations as Clauses.- 1.7. Modularity and Category Theory.- 2. Overview of the Structure of Quechua.- 2: Syntactic Categories and Their Projections.- 1. Nominalized Clauses versus Main Clauses.- 1.1. Features in Common.- 1.2. …
Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction
This introduction to the linguistic study of pidgin and creole languages is clearly designed as an introductory course book. It does not demand a high level of previous linguistic knowledge. Part I: General Aspects and Part II: Theories of Genesis constitute the core for presentation and discussion in the classroom, while Part III: Sketches of Individual Languages (such as Eskimo Pidgin, Haitian, Saramaccan, Shaba Swahili, Fa d'Ambu, Papiamentu, …
Modeling lexical borrowability
In this article, we develop analytical techniques to determine borrowability – that is, the ease with which a lexical item or a category of lexical items can be borrowed. The analysis is based on two assumptions: (1) the distribution of items in both the host and donor language should be taken into account to explain why certain items are, and others are not, borrowed; (2) the borrowability of a lexical category may result from a set of (underlyi…
Functional Categories
This book provides an integrated, cross-disciplinary perspective on functional categories in language, a topic that has drawn considerable attention in linguistics. Muysken examines these grammatical elements from the perspectives of grammar, language history, language contact, and psychology (including child language and aphasia). He argues that the distinction between lexical and grammatical elements, while useful, varies in its application acr…
From Colombo to Athens: Areal and Universalist Perspectives on Bilingual Compound Verbs
Most or all bilingual varieties of the languages spoken in the area between Sri Lanka and Greece have bilingual compound verbs, consisting of a lexical content verb from a donor language and a helping verb from the matrix language. In this paper, these verbs are described and analyzed, and the question is raised whether this widespread occurrence is specifically an areal feature, or a universally available pattern and a question of typological po…
Spanish affixes in the Quechua languages: A multidimensional perspective
The Alternation Hypothesis: Acquisition of Dutch Word Order by Turkish and Moroccan Foreign Workers1
We describe the acquisition of Dutch word order (in particular the positions of the verb and the preposition) by 16 Turkish and Moroccan foreign workers residing in Amsterdam Our theoretical framework is the Alternation Hypothesis, which states that when the target language offers an alternation between two patterns (eg. verb final and verb second, as in Dutch), a second language learner will tend to over generalize the pattern existing in his or…
La mezcla de quechua y castellano. El caso de la "media lengua" en el Ecuador
No presenta resúmen
Structural Priming, Levels of Awareness, and Agency in Contact-Induced Language Change
This paper focuses on structural priming, levels of awareness, and agency in contact-induced language change, bringing insights from historical and anthropological linguistics together with psycholinguistic, processing-based approaches. We begin with a discussion of the relation between levels of awareness and agency in the linguistic literature, focusing on the work of Von Humboldt, Silverstein, Van Coetsem, and Trudgill. Then we turn to the psy…
Exploring genealogical blends: The Surinamese Creole cluster and the Virgin Island Dutch Creole cluster
n Contains fulltext :\n 159512.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Semantic transparency in Lowland Ecuadorian Quechua morphosyntax
In this paper the properties of Lowland Ecuadorian Quechua, a possibly pidginized variety from this Andean indigenous language family, are evaluated in the light of the semantic-transparency hypothesis. It is argued that the typological perspective created by looking at a wider range of languages brings some of the basic ideas developed for creole languages into focus
Approaches to affix order
Introduction: Language in the mines
Seychelles Creole grammar; Elements for Indian Ocean Proto-Creole reconstruction
Variation and change in grammatical gender marking: The case of Dutch ethnolects
Our research on variation in the expression of grammatical gender (in determiners and adnominal inflection) in present-day ethnolectal Dutch is based on interactional speech data collected among 10–12 and 18–20-year-old male adolescents with Turkish, Moroccan and non-immigrant Dutch backgrounds, born and raised in the Dutch cities of Amsterdam or Nijmegen. The cities, which both have multicultural demographic profiles, are located in different di…
Multilingualism and mixed language in the mines of Potosí (Bolivia)
Using the methodology of historical sociolinguistics, this article explores multilingualism and language contact in the mines of Potosí (Bolivia) in the colonial period. Potosí was the destination of massive migration during its economic heydays around 1610 and one of the largest cities in the Western hemisphere at the time. In the mines special codes were developed, with a specialized lexicon that contains words from different languages. This le…
Roots of Language
The Interactional Origins of Foreigner Talk: Municipal Employees and Foreign Workers
Article The Interactional Origins of Foreigner Talk: Municipal Employees and Foreign Workers was published on January 1, 1981 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1981, issue 28)
The Native Languages of South America: Origins, Development, Typology
In South America indigenous languages are extremely diverse. There are over one hundred language families in this region alone. Contributors from around the world explore the history and structure of these languages, combining insights from archaeology and genetics with innovative linguistic analysis. The book aims to uncover regional patterns and potential deeper genealogical relations between the languages. Based on a large-scale database of fe…
La mezcla de quechua y castellano. El caso de la "media lengua" en el Ecuador
No presenta resúmen
Syntactic Developments in the Verb Phrase of Ecuadorian Quechua
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Seychelles Creole grammar; Elements for Indian Ocean Proto-Creole reconstruction
Le Créole français
Le Créole français des Seychelles; Esquisse d'une grammaire - textes - vocabulaire
Le Créole: Structure, statut et origine
Readings in Creole studies
Developing grammars: The acquisition of German syntax by foreign workers
The Alternation Hypothesis: Acquisition of Dutch Word Order by Turkish and Moroccan Foreign Workers1
We describe the acquisition of Dutch word order (in particular the positions of the verb and the preposition) by 16 Turkish and Moroccan foreign workers residing in Amsterdam Our theoretical framework is the Alternation Hypothesis, which states that when the target language offers an alternation between two patterns (eg. verb final and verb second, as in Dutch), a second language learner will tend to over generalize the pattern existing in his or…
The Interactional Origins of Foreigner Talk: Municipal Employees and Foreign Workers
Article The Interactional Origins of Foreigner Talk: Municipal Employees and Foreign Workers was published on January 1, 1981 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1981, issue 28)
Raising as Move Case
This paper proposes an analysis for the facts of Raising as they occur in the Cuzco dialect of Quechua. The proposed analysis reduces to 'Move CASE' which shares the basic properties of 'Move Wh' as described in Chomsky (1977). This analysis sheds light on the complex facts of Quechua and it contributes to the refinement of some aspects of the GB theory, namely Case Theory, Theta theory, and Binding theory. Unbounded Wh-movement and stative-like …
Roots of Language
Substrata versus Universals in Creole Genesis: Papers from the Amsterdam Creole Workshop, April 1985
Government and code-mixing
The aim of this paper is to argue that the process of code-mixing is constrained by the government relation that holds between the constituents of a sentence. The government constraint replaces a number of specific constraints that have been proposed in the literature to account for apparently ‘impossible’, ‘ungrammatical’ or ‘non-occurring’ types of intra-sentential switches. Code-mixing is a form of linguistic behaviour which produces utterance…
Approaches to affix order
Loreto Todd. 1984. Modern Englishes. Pidgins and Creoles
Media Lengua and Linguistic Theory
In this paper I address the question what Media Lengua can tell us about the distinction between stems and affixes, the nature of lexical entries, and the relation between the lexicon, syntax, and phonology. It is part of a much larger attempt, coming from a variety of subdisciplines to provide what is sometimes termed external evidence for particular assumptions about the nature of the human language faculty
Θ- tracking systems - evidence from German
The UG paradox in L2 acquisition
There is a considerable amount of recent evidence that stable principles of Universal Grammar (UG) are available to adult second language (L2) learners in structuring their intuitions about the target language grammar. In contrast, however, there is also evidence from the acquisition of word order, agreement and negation in German that there are substantial differences between first language (L1) and L2 learners. In our view, these differences ar…
Question words in pidgin and creole languages
This article is concerned with the question of what the study of function words in pidgin and Creole languages can contribute to the study of pidgin and Creole genesis. Four main questions will be discussed: (a) to what extent could substratum languages have made a contribution to the analytical systems in Creoles? (b) do the question words perhaps reflect universal tendencies toward semantic transparency in the Creole languages? (c) what was the…
Mixed Categories: Nominalizations in Quechua
1: Introduction.- 1. Towards a Theory of Mixed Categories.- 1.1. Syntactic Categories and Their Projections.- 1.2. Morphology and Syntax.- 1.3. Case.- 1.4. Movement.- 1.5. Complementation versus Relativization.- 1.6. Nominalizations as Clauses.- 1.7. Modularity and Category Theory.- 2. Overview of the Structure of Quechua.- 2: Syntactic Categories and Their Projections.- 1. Nominalized Clauses versus Main Clauses.- 1.1. Features in Common.- 1.2. …
Reflexives
Serial verbs
Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction
This introduction to the linguistic study of pidgin and creole languages is clearly designed as an introductory course book. It does not demand a high level of previous linguistic knowledge. Part I: General Aspects and Part II: Theories of Genesis constitute the core for presentation and discussion in the classroom, while Part III: Sketches of Individual Languages (such as Eskimo Pidgin, Haitian, Saramaccan, Shaba Swahili, Fa d'Ambu, Papiamentu, …
Linguistics (44 works) · Philosophy (42 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (29 works) · Computer Science (28 works) · History (18 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (18 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (15 works)