Martin Everaert
Biographic Data
| ID | 742089 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Everaert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Everaert |
| SIGNATURE | EVERAERT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4418-4126 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Vietnamese kinship and status terms: Their behavior under VP ellipsis
The blocking effect in Vietnamese
This article explores a restriction on non-local binding in Vietnamese—the blocking effect—including a systematic comparison with its Mandarin Chinese counterpart. Our finding is that the blocking effect in Vietnamese appeared to be rather different from that in Mandarin but, in fact, employs essentially the same syntactic mechanism. While binding of Mandarin ziji is governed by a [+participant] feature, binding of the Vietnamese anaphor mình is …
(Under)specification Counts: When Nonlocal Anaphors Are Not Exempt
We explore the proposal in Charnavel 2019, 2020 that nonlocal anaphor binding is only apparent and reduces to local binding by a silent pronominal element-prolog-as the subject of a logophoric operator OPLOG in the left periphery of the anaphor's local domain. Like any pronominal, prolog can be valued by a distant antecedent and should license split antecedents and partial binding for the anaphor it binds. We show that φ-deficient anaphors in dif…
Kokborok and the simple-complex reflexive distinction
This paper presents an in-depth investigation of the binding strategies in Kokborok and we will look more specifically how this sheds light on the theories of reflexivization. Kokborok, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Tripura, a state in the North-East of India, has two reflexives: sak sak ‘self self’ and sak baithaŋ ‘self self’. The form sak sak ‘self self’ conforms to Principle A of classic Binding Theory, blocking long-distance binding, but…
How the Complexity of MandarinZi-jiSimplifies the Grammar
It is generally assumed that Mandarin Chinese has a complex anaphor ta ziji, which is locally bound (Condition A of the canonical binding theory; Chomsky 1981), and another anaphor, ziji, which can be locally and nonlocally bound, as in (1).Ziji’s internal structure is subject to debate. The dominant position is that it is simplex and that this property enables its nonlocal binding (Battistella 1987, 1989, Pica 1987, 1991, Cole, Hermon, and Sung …
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition
International audience
Children’s use of Bahasa Indonesia in Jakarta kindergartens
At a very young age children living in Jakarta use both Colloquial Jakarta Indonesia and Bahasa Indonesia. The children’s first and most used language is Colloquial Jakarta Indonesia. In the formal school setting Bahasa Indonesia is frequently used and stimulated on a daily basis, and the learning process of Bahasa Indonesia is accelerated. The question addressed in this article is: how do these children choose from their repertoire of language v…
How many theta roles in a reflexive verb
While purely syntactic approaches to reflexivization have characterized reflexive verbs in terms of detransitivization, we show that there is a discrepancy between syntactic and semantic arity. Reflexive verbs are syntactically intransitive, but semantically they are two-place predicates: both semantic roles of the base verb are syntactically encoded and accessible. We show that detransitivizing reflexivization must involve the assignment of both…
The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Evidence and Inference
The book presents new and stimulating approaches to the study of language evolution and considers their implications for future research. Leading scholars from linguistics, primatology, anthropology, and cognitive science consider how language evolution can be understood by means of inference from the study of linked or analogous phenomena in language, animal behaviour, genetics, neurology, culture, and biology. The introduction shows how these a…
Reaction to: The Myth of Language Universals and cognitive science”—Evans and Levinson's cabinet of curiosities: Should we pay the fee
The Use of Databases in Cross-Linguistic Studies
This book promotes the development of linguistic databases by describing a number of successful database projects, focusing especially on cross-linguistic and typological research. It has become increasingly clear that ready access to knowledge about cross-linguistic variation is of great value to many types of linguistic research. Such a systematic body of data is essential in order to gain a proper understanding of what is truly universal in la…
Use of Databases in Cross-Linguistic Studies
Collocations in Dutch
Blackwell Companion to Syntax
The Blackwell Companion to Syntax
The Unaccusativity Puzzle
Series editors' preface Introduction 1. A Semantics for unaccusatives and its syntactic consequences 2. Unaccusativity as telicity checking 3. Unergative adjectives and psych-verbs 4. Voice morphology in the causative-inchoative alternation: evidence for a non unified structural analysis of unaccusatives 5. Unaccusative syntax and verbal alternations 6. Against an unaccusative analysis of reflexives 7. Unaccusatives and anticausatives in German 8…
Unaccusativity Puzzle: Explorations of the Syntaxlexicon Interface; Ed. By Artemis Alexiadou.
The phenomenon of unaccusativity is a central focus for the study of the complex properties of verb classes. This book combines contemporary approaches to the subject with several papers that have achieved a significant status even though formally unpublished.
The Case of the Theta System
Reinhart's ‘The Theta System’ is part of a series of publications (Reinhart 1997, Reinhart 2000, Reinhart and Siloni to appear) dealing with the lexicon as the interface of the computational system and the conceptual-intentional interface. In this paper, Reinhart focuses on Theta Theory, i.e. a complex consisting of Theta roles as feature bundles; Arity manipulation rules; Mapping procedures. It is work in progress, which means that Reinhart chan…
Lexical Specification and Insertion
Toward a More Complete Typology of Anaphoric Expressions
Reinhart and Reuland (1993) propose the following typology of anaphoric expressions: SELF anaphors (+SELF, −R), SE anaphors (−SELF, −R), and pronouns (−SELF, +R). We argue that the Greek anaphor o eaftos tu 'the self his' exemplifies a fourth type, predicted by Reinhart and Reuland's typology but not instantiated in their system: an "inalienable possession" anaphor (+SELF, +R). Within Reinhart and Reuland's framework such anaphors are allowed pro…
Idioms: Structural and Psychological Perspectives
The Lexical Representation of Light Verb Constructions
Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Historical Issues in Sociolinguistics/Social Issues in Historical Linguistics (1995)
Lars Hellan: Anaphora in Norwegian and the Theory of Grammar. Studies in Generative Grammar. Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1988
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Nominative anaphors in Icelandic: Morphology or syntax?
Morphology and Modularity: In Honour of Henk Schultink
Toward a More Complete Typology of Anaphoric Expressions
Reinhart and Reuland (1993) propose the following typology of anaphoric expressions: SELF anaphors (+SELF, −R), SE anaphors (−SELF, −R), and pronouns (−SELF, +R). We argue that the Greek anaphor o eaftos tu 'the self his' exemplifies a fourth type, predicted by Reinhart and Reuland's typology but not instantiated in their system: an "inalienable possession" anaphor (+SELF, +R). Within Reinhart and Reuland's framework such anaphors are allowed pro…
How the Complexity of MandarinZi-jiSimplifies the Grammar
It is generally assumed that Mandarin Chinese has a complex anaphor ta ziji, which is locally bound (Condition A of the canonical binding theory; Chomsky 1981), and another anaphor, ziji, which can be locally and nonlocally bound, as in (1).Ziji’s internal structure is subject to debate. The dominant position is that it is simplex and that this property enables its nonlocal binding (Battistella 1987, 1989, Pica 1987, 1991, Cole, Hermon, and Sung …
Reaction to: The Myth of Language Universals and cognitive science”—Evans and Levinson's cabinet of curiosities: Should we pay the fee
(Under)specification Counts: When Nonlocal Anaphors Are Not Exempt
We explore the proposal in Charnavel 2019, 2020 that nonlocal anaphor binding is only apparent and reduces to local binding by a silent pronominal element-prolog-as the subject of a logophoric operator OPLOG in the left periphery of the anaphor's local domain. Like any pronominal, prolog can be valued by a distant antecedent and should license split antecedents and partial binding for the anaphor it binds. We show that φ-deficient anaphors in dif…
Morphology and Modularity
Nominative anaphors in Icelandic: Morphology or syntax?
Morphology and Modularity: In Honour of Henk Schultink
Lars Hellan: Anaphora in Norwegian and the Theory of Grammar. Studies in Generative Grammar. Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1988
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Lexical Representation of Light Verb Constructions
Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Historical Issues in Sociolinguistics/Social Issues in Historical Linguistics (1995)
Idioms: Structural and Psychological Perspectives
Toward a More Complete Typology of Anaphoric Expressions
Reinhart and Reuland (1993) propose the following typology of anaphoric expressions: SELF anaphors (+SELF, −R), SE anaphors (−SELF, −R), and pronouns (−SELF, +R). We argue that the Greek anaphor o eaftos tu 'the self his' exemplifies a fourth type, predicted by Reinhart and Reuland's typology but not instantiated in their system: an "inalienable possession" anaphor (+SELF, +R). Within Reinhart and Reuland's framework such anaphors are allowed pro…
Lexical Specification and Insertion
The Case of the Theta System
Reinhart's ‘The Theta System’ is part of a series of publications (Reinhart 1997, Reinhart 2000, Reinhart and Siloni to appear) dealing with the lexicon as the interface of the computational system and the conceptual-intentional interface. In this paper, Reinhart focuses on Theta Theory, i.e. a complex consisting of Theta roles as feature bundles; Arity manipulation rules; Mapping procedures. It is work in progress, which means that Reinhart chan…
The Unaccusativity Puzzle
Series editors' preface Introduction 1. A Semantics for unaccusatives and its syntactic consequences 2. Unaccusativity as telicity checking 3. Unergative adjectives and psych-verbs 4. Voice morphology in the causative-inchoative alternation: evidence for a non unified structural analysis of unaccusatives 5. Unaccusative syntax and verbal alternations 6. Against an unaccusative analysis of reflexives 7. Unaccusatives and anticausatives in German 8…
Unaccusativity Puzzle: Explorations of the Syntaxlexicon Interface; Ed. By Artemis Alexiadou.
The phenomenon of unaccusativity is a central focus for the study of the complex properties of verb classes. This book combines contemporary approaches to the subject with several papers that have achieved a significant status even though formally unpublished.
The Blackwell Companion to Syntax
Blackwell Companion to Syntax
Collocations in Dutch
The Use of Databases in Cross-Linguistic Studies
This book promotes the development of linguistic databases by describing a number of successful database projects, focusing especially on cross-linguistic and typological research. It has become increasingly clear that ready access to knowledge about cross-linguistic variation is of great value to many types of linguistic research. Such a systematic body of data is essential in order to gain a proper understanding of what is truly universal in la…
Use of Databases in Cross-Linguistic Studies
Reaction to: The Myth of Language Universals and cognitive science”—Evans and Levinson's cabinet of curiosities: Should we pay the fee
The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Evidence and Inference
The book presents new and stimulating approaches to the study of language evolution and considers their implications for future research. Leading scholars from linguistics, primatology, anthropology, and cognitive science consider how language evolution can be understood by means of inference from the study of linked or analogous phenomena in language, animal behaviour, genetics, neurology, culture, and biology. The introduction shows how these a…
How many theta roles in a reflexive verb
While purely syntactic approaches to reflexivization have characterized reflexive verbs in terms of detransitivization, we show that there is a discrepancy between syntactic and semantic arity. Reflexive verbs are syntactically intransitive, but semantically they are two-place predicates: both semantic roles of the base verb are syntactically encoded and accessible. We show that detransitivizing reflexivization must involve the assignment of both…
Children’s use of Bahasa Indonesia in Jakarta kindergartens
At a very young age children living in Jakarta use both Colloquial Jakarta Indonesia and Bahasa Indonesia. The children’s first and most used language is Colloquial Jakarta Indonesia. In the formal school setting Bahasa Indonesia is frequently used and stimulated on a daily basis, and the learning process of Bahasa Indonesia is accelerated. The question addressed in this article is: how do these children choose from their repertoire of language v…
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition
International audience
How the Complexity of MandarinZi-jiSimplifies the Grammar
It is generally assumed that Mandarin Chinese has a complex anaphor ta ziji, which is locally bound (Condition A of the canonical binding theory; Chomsky 1981), and another anaphor, ziji, which can be locally and nonlocally bound, as in (1).Ziji’s internal structure is subject to debate. The dominant position is that it is simplex and that this property enables its nonlocal binding (Battistella 1987, 1989, Pica 1987, 1991, Cole, Hermon, and Sung …
Kokborok and the simple-complex reflexive distinction
This paper presents an in-depth investigation of the binding strategies in Kokborok and we will look more specifically how this sheds light on the theories of reflexivization. Kokborok, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Tripura, a state in the North-East of India, has two reflexives: sak sak ‘self self’ and sak baithaŋ ‘self self’. The form sak sak ‘self self’ conforms to Principle A of classic Binding Theory, blocking long-distance binding, but…
The blocking effect in Vietnamese
This article explores a restriction on non-local binding in Vietnamese—the blocking effect—including a systematic comparison with its Mandarin Chinese counterpart. Our finding is that the blocking effect in Vietnamese appeared to be rather different from that in Mandarin but, in fact, employs essentially the same syntactic mechanism. While binding of Mandarin ziji is governed by a [+participant] feature, binding of the Vietnamese anaphor mình is …
(Under)specification Counts: When Nonlocal Anaphors Are Not Exempt
We explore the proposal in Charnavel 2019, 2020 that nonlocal anaphor binding is only apparent and reduces to local binding by a silent pronominal element-prolog-as the subject of a logophoric operator OPLOG in the left periphery of the anaphor's local domain. Like any pronominal, prolog can be valued by a distant antecedent and should license split antecedents and partial binding for the anaphor it binds. We show that φ-deficient anaphors in dif…
Linguistics (19 works) · Philosophy (19 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (14 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · History (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works)