Petra Sleeman
Biographic Data
| ID | 733381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Petra Sleeman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Petra |
| FAMILY NAME | Sleeman |
| SIGNATURE | SLEEMAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5095-3262 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Variation in the use of the partitive pronoun ER in regional (Heerlen) standard Dutch
This paper focuses on the variable use of partitive er in two types of constructions. First, er combined with cardinal numbers like drie ‘three’ and quantifiers like genoeg ‘enough’. Second, er combined with an elliptical noun referring to age and weight. Er should be present in the first case ( Ik heb *(er) drie ‘I have three’) but absent in the second case ( Hij is (*er) tachtig ‘He is eighty’), according to normative Dutch grammars. The sponta…
Methods for studying variation in partitives
In the last sixty years, starting with the method of introspection to judge the acceptability of linguistic data, research methods in linguistics have become more varied and more sophisticated. This also holds for studies on partitivity. In this paper various methods are presented that have recently been used in the literature to study variation in the linguistic expression and the use of partitive constructions and partitive elements in Romance,…
Zero-suffixes and their alternatives: A view from French
Zero-affixes have been used in morphology within pre-generative analyses, lexicalist analyses and syntactic approaches to morphology. The (over)use of zero-affixes has also led to criticisms and to alternative approaches, both within lexicalist models and syntactic approaches to morphology. In this paper, on the basis of French, a mix of several syntactic approaches is proposed. Two problems for Borer’s Exo-Skeletal model, in which derivational z…
Crosslinguistic variation in partitives
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Partitive pronouns in intransitive contexts in Italian and Dutch
In the literature it is often assumed that partitive pronouns can only be used in combination with elliptical objects of transitive or unaccusative verbs. Some counterevidence has been provided as well, however, showing that partitive pronouns may also occur with intransitive verbs. In this paper it is investigated, by means of a Grammaticality Judgment Task, if native speakers of Italian and Dutch accept the use of the partitive pronoun with thr…
Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case
Although the interest in the concept of partitivity has continuously increased in the last decades and has given rise to considerable advances in research, the fine-grained morpho-syntactic and semantic variation displayed by partitive elements across European languages is far from being well-described, let alone well-understood. There are two main obstacles to this: on the one hand, theoretical linguistics and typological linguistics are fragmen…
Convergence and divergence in the expression of partitivity in French, Dutch, and German
This paper focusses on the so-called partitive pronoun in French and Dutch, and the corresponding data in German, a language which is assumed not to have partitive pronouns in its standard, in contrast to certain dialectal varieties. Taking the diverse uses of the French partitive pronoun en as a starting point, we investigate the corresponding constructions in Dutch and German. The ultimate aim of the paper is to develop an analysis accounting f…
The Development of Subject Position in Dutch-Dominant Heritage Speakers of Spanish: From Age 9 to Adulthood
This exploratory study investigates the knowledge of word order in intransitive sentences by heritage speakers of Spanish of different age groups: 9-year-olds, 13-year-olds and adults. In doing so, we aim to fill a gap in the heritage language literature, which, to date, has mainly focused on adult heritage speakers and preschool bilingual children. The results from a judgment task reveal that child- and adolescent heritage speakers do not entire…
Spanish heritage speakers in the Netherlands: Linguistic patterns in the judgment and production of mood
Purpose: This study investigates heritage speakers of Spanish in the Netherlands regarding their knowledge of Spanish mood. Previous research has demonstrated that heritage speakers of Spanish in the US have problems with mood, especially subjunctive mood and particularly in contexts where choice of mood is variable and depends on semantic and pragmatic factors. Moreover, heritage speakers are often reported to experience fewer problems with oral…
Discriminating dictionaries? Feminine forms of profession nouns in dictionaries of French and German
Following societal changes, professions that were traditionally dominated by men are now open to women too, triggering the need for nouns to refer to these female professionals. Languages show differences with respect to the creation and use of these feminine profession nouns. Whereas in German, feminisation has been accepted for quite some time, in French, the use of feminine forms of profession nouns was not very common until recently, but this…
Implicit and Explicit Knowledge of a Multiple Interface Phenomenon: Differential Task Effects in Heritage Speakers and L2 Speakers of Spanish in The Netherlands
This paper compares heritage speakers and second language (L2) speakers of Spanish with Dutch as their dominant language, in order to explore the role of age of onset and manner of acquisition in the nature of the knowledge (implicit vs. explicit) of the subjunctive. Differently from previous studies, all items were presented orally and in written form, so that language mode of presentation could be excluded as a confounding factor. Moreover, the…
Ellipsis in Noun Phrases
In early analyses of nominal ellipsis in generative syntax, ellipsis was analyzed as null anaphora, where missing material is interpreted under identity with an antecedent in much the same way as a lexical pronoun. Ellipsis was analyzed either as the result of a deletion transformation, in which ellipsis results from deletion of a lexical pro‐form, one , or as a base‐generated empty category subject to rules of interpretation. Within the Principl…
The emergence of the pronouns Dutch er and French en in child L1 and the role of complexity
The influence of L2 English and immersion education on L3 French in the Netherlands
In this paper, we test the L2 Status Factor ( Bardel & Falk, 2007 ) by examining to what extent Dutch secondary school students (13–15 years) prefer L2 English over L1 Dutch in L3 French acquisition, and we study the influence of L2 education by comparing an English immersion curriculum vs. a regular Dutch curriculum. We investigate verb placement in declarative root clauses, viz. V-to-T movement, where the finite verb moves to T in French but no…
Three types of suffixes in French: Discarding the learned / non-learned distinction
Traditionally a two-way distinction is made in French between learned and non-learned suffixes, based on etymology. However, this distinction does not account for all suffixes. Furthermore, suffixes are traditionally considered as categorial heads, but some suffixes derive words of multiple categories. This paper proposes an alternative analysis of French suffixes, distinguishing three instead of two types, using a theory by Creemers et al. (2015…
Gender agreement in interface contexts in the oral production of heritage speakers of Spanish in the Netherlands
In this paper we present an analysis of Spanish heritage speakers’ oral production of gender agreement outside the DP as an innovative source of support for the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace & Filiaci 2006). We demonstrate that, besides commonly known factors such as the gender, animacy and morphology of the antecedent, the interface domain in which gender agreement takes place also seems to play a role in how accurately heritage speakers apply ge…
Verbal and adjectival participles: Position and internal structure
Clitic Dislocation: Evidence for a low Topic position
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The acquisition of definiteness distinctions by L2 learners of French
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Quelques-uns, celui, chacun: Pronoms ou déterminants
The goal of the paper is to show that morphologically complex pronouns such as quelques-uns, celui and chacun are in fact determiners within a DP that contains an empty noun. This claim is supported by several arguments. First, several syntactic phenomena, such as the use of dislocated nouns introduced by de or the combination with the quantitative pronoun en, suggest that pronouns such as quelques-uns, celui and chacun are in fact determiners wi…
N-ellipsis in Spanish
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How Reduced are Reduced Relatives
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Licensing Empty Nouns in French
Extraction out of DP in French and proper head government
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Licensing Empty Nouns in French
Verbal and adjectival participles: Position and internal structure
Crosslinguistic variation in partitives
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Convergence and divergence in the expression of partitivity in French, Dutch, and German
This paper focusses on the so-called partitive pronoun in French and Dutch, and the corresponding data in German, a language which is assumed not to have partitive pronouns in its standard, in contrast to certain dialectal varieties. Taking the diverse uses of the French partitive pronoun en as a starting point, we investigate the corresponding constructions in Dutch and German. The ultimate aim of the paper is to develop an analysis accounting f…
Partitive pronouns in intransitive contexts in Italian and Dutch
In the literature it is often assumed that partitive pronouns can only be used in combination with elliptical objects of transitive or unaccusative verbs. Some counterevidence has been provided as well, however, showing that partitive pronouns may also occur with intransitive verbs. In this paper it is investigated, by means of a Grammaticality Judgment Task, if native speakers of Italian and Dutch accept the use of the partitive pronoun with thr…
Implicit and Explicit Knowledge of a Multiple Interface Phenomenon: Differential Task Effects in Heritage Speakers and L2 Speakers of Spanish in The Netherlands
This paper compares heritage speakers and second language (L2) speakers of Spanish with Dutch as their dominant language, in order to explore the role of age of onset and manner of acquisition in the nature of the knowledge (implicit vs. explicit) of the subjunctive. Differently from previous studies, all items were presented orally and in written form, so that language mode of presentation could be excluded as a confounding factor. Moreover, the…
Variation in the use of the partitive pronoun ER in regional (Heerlen) standard Dutch
This paper focuses on the variable use of partitive er in two types of constructions. First, er combined with cardinal numbers like drie ‘three’ and quantifiers like genoeg ‘enough’. Second, er combined with an elliptical noun referring to age and weight. Er should be present in the first case ( Ik heb *(er) drie ‘I have three’) but absent in the second case ( Hij is (*er) tachtig ‘He is eighty’), according to normative Dutch grammars. The sponta…
The emergence of the pronouns Dutch er and French en in child L1 and the role of complexity
Extraction out of DP in French and proper head government
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How Reduced are Reduced Relatives
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Licensing Empty Nouns in French
N-ellipsis in Spanish
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Quelques-uns, celui, chacun: Pronoms ou déterminants
The goal of the paper is to show that morphologically complex pronouns such as quelques-uns, celui and chacun are in fact determiners within a DP that contains an empty noun. This claim is supported by several arguments. First, several syntactic phenomena, such as the use of dislocated nouns introduced by de or the combination with the quantitative pronoun en, suggest that pronouns such as quelques-uns, celui and chacun are in fact determiners wi…
The acquisition of definiteness distinctions by L2 learners of French
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Clitic Dislocation: Evidence for a low Topic position
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Verbal and adjectival participles: Position and internal structure
Gender agreement in interface contexts in the oral production of heritage speakers of Spanish in the Netherlands
In this paper we present an analysis of Spanish heritage speakers’ oral production of gender agreement outside the DP as an innovative source of support for the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace & Filiaci 2006). We demonstrate that, besides commonly known factors such as the gender, animacy and morphology of the antecedent, the interface domain in which gender agreement takes place also seems to play a role in how accurately heritage speakers apply ge…
Three types of suffixes in French: Discarding the learned / non-learned distinction
Traditionally a two-way distinction is made in French between learned and non-learned suffixes, based on etymology. However, this distinction does not account for all suffixes. Furthermore, suffixes are traditionally considered as categorial heads, but some suffixes derive words of multiple categories. This paper proposes an alternative analysis of French suffixes, distinguishing three instead of two types, using a theory by Creemers et al. (2015…
The influence of L2 English and immersion education on L3 French in the Netherlands
In this paper, we test the L2 Status Factor ( Bardel & Falk, 2007 ) by examining to what extent Dutch secondary school students (13–15 years) prefer L2 English over L1 Dutch in L3 French acquisition, and we study the influence of L2 education by comparing an English immersion curriculum vs. a regular Dutch curriculum. We investigate verb placement in declarative root clauses, viz. V-to-T movement, where the finite verb moves to T in French but no…
Ellipsis in Noun Phrases
In early analyses of nominal ellipsis in generative syntax, ellipsis was analyzed as null anaphora, where missing material is interpreted under identity with an antecedent in much the same way as a lexical pronoun. Ellipsis was analyzed either as the result of a deletion transformation, in which ellipsis results from deletion of a lexical pro‐form, one , or as a base‐generated empty category subject to rules of interpretation. Within the Principl…
The emergence of the pronouns Dutch er and French en in child L1 and the role of complexity
Spanish heritage speakers in the Netherlands: Linguistic patterns in the judgment and production of mood
Purpose: This study investigates heritage speakers of Spanish in the Netherlands regarding their knowledge of Spanish mood. Previous research has demonstrated that heritage speakers of Spanish in the US have problems with mood, especially subjunctive mood and particularly in contexts where choice of mood is variable and depends on semantic and pragmatic factors. Moreover, heritage speakers are often reported to experience fewer problems with oral…
Discriminating dictionaries? Feminine forms of profession nouns in dictionaries of French and German
Following societal changes, professions that were traditionally dominated by men are now open to women too, triggering the need for nouns to refer to these female professionals. Languages show differences with respect to the creation and use of these feminine profession nouns. Whereas in German, feminisation has been accepted for quite some time, in French, the use of feminine forms of profession nouns was not very common until recently, but this…
Implicit and Explicit Knowledge of a Multiple Interface Phenomenon: Differential Task Effects in Heritage Speakers and L2 Speakers of Spanish in The Netherlands
This paper compares heritage speakers and second language (L2) speakers of Spanish with Dutch as their dominant language, in order to explore the role of age of onset and manner of acquisition in the nature of the knowledge (implicit vs. explicit) of the subjunctive. Differently from previous studies, all items were presented orally and in written form, so that language mode of presentation could be excluded as a confounding factor. Moreover, the…
The Development of Subject Position in Dutch-Dominant Heritage Speakers of Spanish: From Age 9 to Adulthood
This exploratory study investigates the knowledge of word order in intransitive sentences by heritage speakers of Spanish of different age groups: 9-year-olds, 13-year-olds and adults. In doing so, we aim to fill a gap in the heritage language literature, which, to date, has mainly focused on adult heritage speakers and preschool bilingual children. The results from a judgment task reveal that child- and adolescent heritage speakers do not entire…
Convergence and divergence in the expression of partitivity in French, Dutch, and German
This paper focusses on the so-called partitive pronoun in French and Dutch, and the corresponding data in German, a language which is assumed not to have partitive pronouns in its standard, in contrast to certain dialectal varieties. Taking the diverse uses of the French partitive pronoun en as a starting point, we investigate the corresponding constructions in Dutch and German. The ultimate aim of the paper is to develop an analysis accounting f…
Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case
Although the interest in the concept of partitivity has continuously increased in the last decades and has given rise to considerable advances in research, the fine-grained morpho-syntactic and semantic variation displayed by partitive elements across European languages is far from being well-described, let alone well-understood. There are two main obstacles to this: on the one hand, theoretical linguistics and typological linguistics are fragmen…
Zero-suffixes and their alternatives: A view from French
Zero-affixes have been used in morphology within pre-generative analyses, lexicalist analyses and syntactic approaches to morphology. The (over)use of zero-affixes has also led to criticisms and to alternative approaches, both within lexicalist models and syntactic approaches to morphology. In this paper, on the basis of French, a mix of several syntactic approaches is proposed. Two problems for Borer’s Exo-Skeletal model, in which derivational z…
Crosslinguistic variation in partitives
Preview this online first article: Crosslinguistic variation in partitives, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/10.1075/lv.21020.lur/lv.21020.lur-1.gif
Partitive pronouns in intransitive contexts in Italian and Dutch
In the literature it is often assumed that partitive pronouns can only be used in combination with elliptical objects of transitive or unaccusative verbs. Some counterevidence has been provided as well, however, showing that partitive pronouns may also occur with intransitive verbs. In this paper it is investigated, by means of a Grammaticality Judgment Task, if native speakers of Italian and Dutch accept the use of the partitive pronoun with thr…
Variation in the use of the partitive pronoun ER in regional (Heerlen) standard Dutch
This paper focuses on the variable use of partitive er in two types of constructions. First, er combined with cardinal numbers like drie ‘three’ and quantifiers like genoeg ‘enough’. Second, er combined with an elliptical noun referring to age and weight. Er should be present in the first case ( Ik heb *(er) drie ‘I have three’) but absent in the second case ( Hij is (*er) tachtig ‘He is eighty’), according to normative Dutch grammars. The sponta…
Methods for studying variation in partitives
In the last sixty years, starting with the method of introspection to judge the acceptability of linguistic data, research methods in linguistics have become more varied and more sophisticated. This also holds for studies on partitivity. In this paper various methods are presented that have recently been used in the literature to study variation in the linguistic expression and the use of partitive constructions and partitive elements in Romance,…
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