Joseph Nuyts
Biographic Data
| ID | 729983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Nuyts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Nuyts |
| SIGNATURE | NUYTS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Antwerp |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7195-6550 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1949 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
On the link between grammaticalization and subjectification: The case of the Dutch modals
This article argues that the widespread view that the diachronic processes of grammaticalization and of subjectification go hand in hand, and that highly subjectivized meanings typically correlate with highly grammaticalized forms, should be revised. The point is made on the basis of the case of the diachrony of the Dutch modal verbs. Corpus data show that four of these verbs recently got involved in a process of collective re-autonomization, whi…
Zullen en willen: Twee vreemde eenden in de modale bijt
This paper offers a corpus-based investigation of the diachronic evolution of the Dutch modal verbs zullen ‘shall/will’ and willen ‘want’. Although they show considerable differences in their developments, neither of these verbs participates in the marked tendency to regain grammatical autonomy characterizing the ‘central’ modals kunnen ‘can’, mogen ‘may’, moeten ‘must’ and hoeven ‘need’. While the latter verbs from New Dutch onwards occur increa…
On the functionality of language
Functionalism in the language sciences basically claims that language is instrumental, i.e. that it fulfills certain functions for its user. But there is much confusion and little agreement about what the functionality of language involves. Yet, this is a matter of the uttermost importance for theory formation in the functionalist framework, since one's conception of language function will (or should) crucially determine the way one goes about in…
Grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification in an Iranian modal verb: A paradox resolved by Dutch
This paper deals with the grammatical and semantic development of a modal verb in four West Iranian languages: gu/ga in Kahangi, gijabon in Semnani, boGostæn/bogostæn in the Takestan dialect of Tati and goan in Vafsi. Field work data demonstrate that, from the perspective of the grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification literature, this verb in these languages poses a challenge. It occurs as a non-grammaticalized full verb and as a grammatic…
O corpora, o mores
In this paper, I focus on strengths and weaknesses of corpus research in linguistics, and how it relates to intuition
Directionals and re-autonomization in Dutch modals
Modal auxiliaries in Present Day Dutch are going through a process of ‘re-autonomization’, i.e. they are increasingly used without a main verb elsewhere in the clause, in ways which are not possible in other Germanic languages. Many Germanic languages do allow omission of the main verb when a modal is combined with a directional phrase in the clause. This paper investigates whether the latter phenomenon may have been the cause of the former proce…
Getting One's Words into Line: On Word Order and Functional Grammar
The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood
This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood and examines the full range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the phenomena involved. Following an opening section that provides an introduction and historical background to the topic, the volume is divided into five parts. Parts 1 and 2 present the basic linguistic facts about the systems of modality and mood in…
Surveying Modality and Mood: An Introduction
This chapter offers an introduction to The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood. It briefly sketches the background of research on modality and mood and it explains the rationale behind the present volume. It lays out the principles that have been followed in composing the Handbook (in matters terminological conventions, the scope of the volume, the attention for typological variantion, the division of labor between the chapters, and the theory n…
Competing modals: Beyond (inter)subjectification
This paper presents the results of a corpus-based diachronic investigation into the semantic evolution of the Dutch modals kunnen “can”, mogen “may” and moeten “must”, revealing an interaction between processes of (inter)subjectification and of semantic competition (‘no synonymy’). Mogen and kunnen do, but moeten does not, show an evolution in terms of (inter)subjectification. But developments in mogen and kunnen also show an effect of the fact t…
Subjectivity: Between discourse and conceptualization
De-auxiliarization without de-modalization in the Dutch core modals: A case of collective degrammaticalization
The expression of epistemic modality in Ewe
Cet article présente une étude descriptive des moyens d’exprimer la modalité épistémique en ewe parlé standard (Kwa, Niger-Congo)
Language is an instrument for thought. Really
This discussion article addresses the assumption formulated in Dan Everett’s new book Language: The Cultural Tool that language is not only an instrument for communication, but also an instrument for thought. It argues that the latter assumption is far from obvious, and that, in any case, one cannot put communication and thought on a par in discussing the functionality of language
Cognitive Linguistics and Functional Linguistics
This article examines how cognitive linguistics relates to, complements, and/or differs from other approaches within the wider field of functionally oriented linguistics (of which cognitive linguistics is also a member). In order to avoid terminological confusion, it uses the notion "functional linguistics" strictly to refer to such "other functional approaches" only, to the exclusion of cognitive linguistics. This article discusses the problem o…
On deontic modality, directivity, and mood: The case of Dutch mogen and moeten
The "one-commitment-per-clause" principle and the cognitive status of qualificational categories
Combinations of performative deontic, epistemic and evidential expressions in a clause appear to be very rare in language. This article presents facts to this effect on the basis of Dutch corpus data, and attempts to explain them. The aim is to contribute to the understanding of the cognitive status of the semantic notions involved, and more generally of the phenomenon called "tense-aspect-modality marking" or the "qualification of states of affa…
The cognitive-pragmatic approach
Epistemic Modality, Language, and Conceptualization: A cognitive-pragmatic perspective
The relationship between language and conceptualization remains one of the major puzzles in language research. This monograph addresses this issue by means of an in depth corpus based and experimental investigation of the major types of expressions of epistemic modality in Dutch, German and English. By adopting a systematic functional orientation, the book explains a whole range of peculiarities of epistemic expression forms (synchronically and d…
Subjectivity as an evidential dimension in epistemic modal expressions
Tensions Between Discourse Structure and Conceptual Semantics: The Syntax of Epistemic Modal Expressions
Starting from an investigation of the information structure (specifically, the possibilities for focalization) of some major epistemic expression forms — modal adverbs and adjectives, mental state predicates, and modal auxiliaries — in Dutch and German (also with reference to English), this paper aims to show how the syntactic structure of these expression types is shaped (also diachronically) by the interaction (or, often, counteraction) of two …
Epistemic modality and focus in Dutch
This paper reports on a “controlled data elicitation” experiment investigating the role of information structure in the use of epistemic modal expression forms in Dutch. Specifically, it investigates the effect of focality versus nonfocality of an epistemic modal evaluation of Dutch speakers' selection of a number of alternative expression types for epistemic modality (adverbs, predicative adjectives, modal auxiliaries, mental-state predicates, a…
Leo Hoye. Adverbs and Modality in English
Consciousness in language
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Afterthoughts to E. de Bustos's "On the very idea of cognitivism"
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Subjectivity as an evidential dimension in epistemic modal expressions
On deontic modality, directivity, and mood: The case of Dutch mogen and moeten
Cognitive Linguistics and Functional Linguistics
This article examines how cognitive linguistics relates to, complements, and/or differs from other approaches within the wider field of functionally oriented linguistics (of which cognitive linguistics is also a member). In order to avoid terminological confusion, it uses the notion "functional linguistics" strictly to refer to such "other functional approaches" only, to the exclusion of cognitive linguistics. This article discusses the problem o…
Epistemic modal adverbs and adjectives and the layered representation of conceptual and linguistic structure
This paper attempts to deal with the question of what the differences are between constructions with modal adverbs such as probably and constructions with predicatively used modal adjectives of the type it is probable that.. in the way they express epistemic modal qualifications. the two expression types have several distinctive behavioral properties, and these are explained in terms of three different underlying factors : the discourse functiona…
Cognitive linguistics
The "one-commitment-per-clause" principle and the cognitive status of qualificational categories
Combinations of performative deontic, epistemic and evidential expressions in a clause appear to be very rare in language. This article presents facts to this effect on the basis of Dutch corpus data, and attempts to explain them. The aim is to contribute to the understanding of the cognitive status of the semantic notions involved, and more generally of the phenomenon called "tense-aspect-modality marking" or the "qualification of states of affa…
Subjectivity: Between discourse and conceptualization
Negative-raising reconsidered: Arguments for a cognitive-pragmatic approach
Epistemic modality and focus in Dutch
This paper reports on a “controlled data elicitation” experiment investigating the role of information structure in the use of epistemic modal expression forms in Dutch. Specifically, it investigates the effect of focality versus nonfocality of an epistemic modal evaluation of Dutch speakers' selection of a number of alternative expression types for epistemic modality (adverbs, predicative adjectives, modal auxiliaries, mental-state predicates, a…
On determining the functions of language
Romans a Lire et Romans a Proscrire (Novels to Read and Novels to Proscribe)
Psycholinguistische Aspekte der Sprachproduktion: Sprechverhalten und Verbalisierungsprozesse
Mental processes: Studies in cognitive science
Negative-raising reconsidered: Arguments for a cognitive-pragmatic approach
Intentions and the functions of language in communication
Representation and communication: Searle's distinction revisited
On determining the functions of language
Epistemic modal adverbs and adjectives and the layered representation of conceptual and linguistic structure
This paper attempts to deal with the question of what the differences are between constructions with modal adverbs such as probably and constructions with predicatively used modal adjectives of the type it is probable that.. in the way they express epistemic modal qualifications. the two expression types have several distinctive behavioral properties, and these are explained in terms of three different underlying factors : the discourse functiona…
Cognitive linguistics
The intentional and the socio-cultural in language use
This paper is a contribution to the recent debate between a number of anthropologists and philosophers concerning the role of intentions in a theory of verbal behavior. It reviews a number of arguments put forward by ethno- and anthro-polinguists against the intention-centered view of human behavior common in current cognitively oriented language research, and typically represented in John Searle's theory of intentionality and of speech acts. It …
Afterthoughts to E. de Bustos's "On the very idea of cognitivism"
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Consciousness in language
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Leo Hoye. Adverbs and Modality in English
Epistemic modality and focus in Dutch
This paper reports on a “controlled data elicitation” experiment investigating the role of information structure in the use of epistemic modal expression forms in Dutch. Specifically, it investigates the effect of focality versus nonfocality of an epistemic modal evaluation of Dutch speakers' selection of a number of alternative expression types for epistemic modality (adverbs, predicative adjectives, modal auxiliaries, mental-state predicates, a…
Tensions Between Discourse Structure and Conceptual Semantics: The Syntax of Epistemic Modal Expressions
Starting from an investigation of the information structure (specifically, the possibilities for focalization) of some major epistemic expression forms — modal adverbs and adjectives, mental state predicates, and modal auxiliaries — in Dutch and German (also with reference to English), this paper aims to show how the syntactic structure of these expression types is shaped (also diachronically) by the interaction (or, often, counteraction) of two …
Epistemic Modality, Language, and Conceptualization: A cognitive-pragmatic perspective
The relationship between language and conceptualization remains one of the major puzzles in language research. This monograph addresses this issue by means of an in depth corpus based and experimental investigation of the major types of expressions of epistemic modality in Dutch, German and English. By adopting a systematic functional orientation, the book explains a whole range of peculiarities of epistemic expression forms (synchronically and d…
Subjectivity as an evidential dimension in epistemic modal expressions
The cognitive-pragmatic approach
The "one-commitment-per-clause" principle and the cognitive status of qualificational categories
Combinations of performative deontic, epistemic and evidential expressions in a clause appear to be very rare in language. This article presents facts to this effect on the basis of Dutch corpus data, and attempts to explain them. The aim is to contribute to the understanding of the cognitive status of the semantic notions involved, and more generally of the phenomenon called "tense-aspect-modality marking" or the "qualification of states of affa…
Cognitive Linguistics and Functional Linguistics
This article examines how cognitive linguistics relates to, complements, and/or differs from other approaches within the wider field of functionally oriented linguistics (of which cognitive linguistics is also a member). In order to avoid terminological confusion, it uses the notion "functional linguistics" strictly to refer to such "other functional approaches" only, to the exclusion of cognitive linguistics. This article discusses the problem o…
On deontic modality, directivity, and mood: The case of Dutch mogen and moeten
The expression of epistemic modality in Ewe
Cet article présente une étude descriptive des moyens d’exprimer la modalité épistémique en ewe parlé standard (Kwa, Niger-Congo)
Language is an instrument for thought. Really
This discussion article addresses the assumption formulated in Dan Everett’s new book Language: The Cultural Tool that language is not only an instrument for communication, but also an instrument for thought. It argues that the latter assumption is far from obvious, and that, in any case, one cannot put communication and thought on a par in discussing the functionality of language
De-auxiliarization without de-modalization in the Dutch core modals: A case of collective degrammaticalization
Surveying Modality and Mood: An Introduction
This chapter offers an introduction to The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood. It briefly sketches the background of research on modality and mood and it explains the rationale behind the present volume. It lays out the principles that have been followed in composing the Handbook (in matters terminological conventions, the scope of the volume, the attention for typological variantion, the division of labor between the chapters, and the theory n…
Philosophy (31 works) · Linguistics (26 works) · Computer Science (25 works) · Psychology (21 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (17 works) · Epistemology (16 works) · linguistics and terminology studies (10 works) · Cognition (9 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (9 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (9 works)