Pieter Seuren

Biographic Data

ID732768
NAMEPieter Seuren
GIVEN NAMESPieter
FAMILY NAMESeuren
SIGNATURESEUREN P
AFFILIATIONSRadboud University Nijmegen
ORCID0000-0002-5976-4115
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS33
AUTHOR COUNT36
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX4

  • Antifunctionality in Shawi split ergativity, a processing analysis

    Open AccessLuis Miguel Rojas-Berscia, Corentin Bourdeau et al.ARTICLERevista Brasileira de Linguística…2023

    In this article, as a follow-up of Rojas-Berscia and Bourdeau (2017), we study morphological ergativity in Shawi (Kawapanan) using a dedicated experimental design. Shawi displays ergative-marking in an opposite direction from Silverstein's Nominal Hierarchy (NH) (Silverstein 1976). We claim this pattern to be antifunctional, given the lack of internal syntactic cues that explain why ergativity is omitted or completely obligatory in cases where th…

  • The natural logic of language and cognition

    Open AccessPieter A M Seuren, Pieter SeurenARTICLEPragmatics Quarterly Publication…2022

    This paper aims at an explanation of the discrepancies between natural intuitions and standard logic in terms of a distinction between NATURAL and CONSTRUCTED levels of cognition, applied to the way human cognition deals with sets. NATURAL SET THEORY (NST) restricts standard set theory cutting it down to naturalness. The restrictions are then translated into a theory of natural logic. The predicate logic resulting from these restrictions turns ou…

  • Saving the Square of Opposition

    Open AccessPieter A M Seuren, Pieter SeurenARTICLEHistory and Philosophy of Logic2021

    Contrary to received opinion, the Aristotelian Square of Opposition (square) is logically sound, differing from standard modern predicate logic (SMPL) only in that it restricts the universe U of cognitively constructible situations by banning null predicates, making it less unnatural than SMPL. U-restriction strengthens the logic without making it unsound. It also invites a cognitive approach to logic. Humans are endowed with a cognitive predicat…

  • Essentials of Semantic Syntax

    Open AccessPieter SeurenARTICLECadernos de Linguística e Teoria…2021

    Semantic Syntax (SeSyn), originally called Generative Semantics, is an offshoot of Chomskyan generative grammar (ChoGG), rejected by Chomsky and his school in the late 1960s. SeSyn is the theory of algorithmical grammars producing the well-formed sentences of a language L from the corresponding semantic input, the Semantic Analysis (SA), represented as a traditional tree structure diagram in a specific formal language of incremental predicate log…

  • Sentential Complementation and the Lexicon

    W G Klooster, Dany Jaspers et al.BOOKSentential Complementation and…2019

  • The Processing of Grammatical Gender Agreement in Brazilian Portuguese

    Open AccessNatália Carolina Alencar de Resende, Mailce Borges Mota et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psycholinguistic…2019References: 41

  • Short rejoinder

    Pieter A M Seuren, Pieter SeurenARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2016

  • Saussure and his intellectual environment

    Open AccessPieter A M Seuren, Pieter SeurenARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2016Cited by: 1

    The present study paints the intellectual environment in which Ferdinand de Saussure developed his ideas about language and linguistics during the fin de siècle. It sketches his dissatisfaction with that environment to the extent that it touched on linguistics, and shows the new course he was trying to steer on the basis of ideas that seemed to open new and exciting perspectives, even though they were still vaguely defined. As Saussure himself wa…

  • Logico-cognitive structure in the lexicon

    Open AccessPieter A M Seuren, Pieter Seuren et al.ARTICLELanguage2014Cited by: 4References: 5

    This study is a prolegomenon to a formal theory of the natural growth of conceptual and lexical fields. Negation, in the various forms in which it occurs in language, is found to be a powerful indicator. Other than in standard logic, natural language negation selects its complement within universes of discourse that are, for practical and functional reasons, restricted in various ways and to different degrees. It is hypothesized that a system of …

  • A reaction to Jackendoff’s discussion note

    Open AccessPieter A M Seuren, Pieter SeurenARTICLELanguage2012

    A reaction to Jackendoff’s discussion note Pieter A. M. Seuren It was with great pleasure that I read Ray Jackendoff’s discussion note ‘What is the human language faculty? Two views’, published in Language 87.3.586–624 (September 2011). Since it was not presented as an ordinary article but as a ‘discussion note’, it seemed appropriate to ask the editors of Language to print a short reaction, meant to make a positive contribution to the discussion…

  • A final reaction to Jackendoff

    Open AccessPieter A M Seuren, Pieter SeurenARTICLELanguage2012

    Ray Jackendoff and I seem to concur in most essential points. At the level of overall architecture, his parallel grammar model (Jackendoff 2002:199) and my model of SEMANTIC SYNTAX (SeSyn; Seuren 1996) bear a nontrivial resemblance.Apart from technical details such as the properties of the rule systems concerned, these models seem to differmainly in two respects

  • How I remember Evert Beth

    Open AccessPieter A M Seuren, Pieter SeurenARTICLESynthese2011

  • The Logic of Language

    Pieter A M Seuren, Pieter SeurenBOOKThe logic of language2009

    1. Logic and Entailment 2. Logic: a New Beginning 3. Natural Set Theory, Cognition, and Natural Logic 4. Logical Power, Abelard, and Empirical Success Rates 5. Aristotle, the commentators and Abelard 6. The Functionality of the Square and of BNPC 7. The Context-Sensitivity of Speech and Language 8. Discourse Incrementation 9. Primary and Donkey Anaphora 10. Presupposition and Presuppositional Logic 11. Topic-Comment Modulation Bibliography Index

  • Concerning the Roots of Transformational Generative Grammar

    Pieter SeurenARTICLEHistoriographia Linguistica2009Cited by: 9References: 11

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  • The theory that dare not speak its name

    Open AccessPieter A M Seuren, Pieter SeurenARTICLELanguage Sciences2007

  • McCawley's legacy

    Open AccessPieter A M Seuren, Pieter SeurenARTICLELanguage Sciences2006References: 4

  • Eubulides as a 20th-century semanticist

    Open AccessPieter A M Seuren, Pieter SeurenARTICLELanguage Sciences2005References: 5

  • Eubulides as a 20th-century semanticist

    Open AccessPieter SeurenARTICLELanguage Sciences2004

  • The importance of being modular

    Open AccessPieter A M Seuren, Pieter SeurenARTICLEJournal of Linguistics2004References: 1

    William Croft, Radical Construction Grammar: syntactic theory in typological perspective . New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xxviii+416. My reason for writing this review article is that I want to highlight a particular basic opposition in linguistic theory and methodology. On the one hand, we have what is usually called COGNITIVISM , represented in the book under review by the new theory of Radical Construction Grammar, henceforth RCG…

  • Presupposition, negation and trivalence

    Open AccessPieter A M Seuren, Pieter SeurenARTICLEJournal of Linguistics2000Cited by: 2References: 2

    Close inspection of presupposition(= P-)cancelling and other metalinguistic negation data shows that natural language semantics must be (at least) trivalent, with the values ‘true’, ‘minimally false’ (assertion failure) and ‘radically false’ (presupposition failure). It is argued that presupposition is a semantic phenomenon originating in a distinction between two kinds of satisfaction conditions for predicates, the PRECONDITIONS generating presu…

  • Herman Christiaan Wekker 1943-1997

    Pieter A M Seuren, Pieter SeurenARTICLEJournal of Pidgin and Creole…1998

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  • Notes on the history and the syntax of Mauritian Creole

    Open AccessPieter A M Seuren, Pieter SeurenARTICLELinguistics1995Cited by: 2

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  • Soaps and Serials

    Pieter A M Seuren, Pieter SeurenARTICLEJournal of Pidgin and Creole…1994

    Serial verbs are "in," or so it seems, in theoretical linguistics.The interest was sparked off mainly by recent work in African as well as in Caribbean Creole languages, where serial verbs are common, and, though to a lesser extent, by the observation of similar phenomena in the languages of China and surrounding areas.In general, not much theoretical ink is spilled over African languages or creole languages, but of late quite a few theoretical l…

  • The Question of Predicate Clefting in the Indian Ocean Creoles

    Pieter A M Seuren, Pieter SeurenCHAPTERFocus and Grammatical Relations…1993

  • Still no Serials in Seselwa

    Pieter A M Seuren, Pieter SeurenARTICLEJournal of Pidgin and Creole…1990

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