Joren Somers
Biographic Data
| ID | 5889860 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joren Somers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joren |
| FAMILY NAME | Somers |
| SIGNATURE | SOMERS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3815-3139 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Argument structure constructions in competition
Alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat verbs in Icelandic are notorious for instantiating two diametrically opposed argument structures: the Dat-Nom and the Nom-Dat construction. We conduct a systematic study of the relevant verbs to uncover the factors steering the alternation. This involves a comparison of 15 verbs, five alternating ones, and as a control, five Nom-Dat verbs and five non-alternating Dat-Nom verbs. Our findings show that alternating verbs …
Latin placēre ‘like, please’ as an alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat verb
A general assumption in the Latin scholarship is that verbs like placēre ‘like, please’ select for a nominative (stimulus) subject and a dative (experiencer) object. Here we pursue an alternative hypothesis, namely that placēre may instantiate two diametrically opposed argument structures, i.e. Dat-Nom and Nom-Dat, as recent research has established the existence of such alternations in several Indo- European languages (Barðdal 2023: Ch. 3). For …
Subjecthood and argument structure of synonymous Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat verbs across German and Icelandic
Oblieke subjecten in het Nederlands
In this paper, I argue that the oblique argument of the Dutch two-place predicate wachten ‘wait’ behaves syntactically, semantically, and pragmatically as a subject. Conversely, its morphological subject behaves as an object. The starting point of this study is an instance of conjunction reduction in the Flemish newspaper De Standaard, in which the oblique argument of wachten is left unexpressed on identity with the nominative subject in the firs…
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Oblieke subjecten in het Nederlands
In this paper, I argue that the oblique argument of the Dutch two-place predicate wachten ‘wait’ behaves syntactically, semantically, and pragmatically as a subject. Conversely, its morphological subject behaves as an object. The starting point of this study is an instance of conjunction reduction in the Flemish newspaper De Standaard, in which the oblique argument of wachten is left unexpressed on identity with the nominative subject in the firs…
Subjecthood and argument structure of synonymous Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat verbs across German and Icelandic
Latin placēre ‘like, please’ as an alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat verb
A general assumption in the Latin scholarship is that verbs like placēre ‘like, please’ select for a nominative (stimulus) subject and a dative (experiencer) object. Here we pursue an alternative hypothesis, namely that placēre may instantiate two diametrically opposed argument structures, i.e. Dat-Nom and Nom-Dat, as recent research has established the existence of such alternations in several Indo- European languages (Barðdal 2023: Ch. 3). For …
Argument structure constructions in competition
Alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat verbs in Icelandic are notorious for instantiating two diametrically opposed argument structures: the Dat-Nom and the Nom-Dat construction. We conduct a systematic study of the relevant verbs to uncover the factors steering the alternation. This involves a comparison of 15 verbs, five alternating ones, and as a control, five Nom-Dat verbs and five non-alternating Dat-Nom verbs. Our findings show that alternating verbs …
Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works) · Icelandic (2 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (2 works) · Verb (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · German (1 work)