Gert-Jan Schoenmakers
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1453376 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gert-Jan Schoenmakers |
| PRENOMES | Gert-Jan |
| SOBRENOME | Schoenmakers |
| ASSINATURA | SCHOENMAKERS G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0666-6001 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
What do children do with do ? Superfluous do in child English
In English, superfluous do is phonologically unstressed, non-emphatic, and occurs in positive assertions. We propose that superfluous do has two different flavours in child English. First, auxiliary do is used by children to express Tense in a one-to-one relation with form. Second, children use do as a light verb to overtly express the concept of action, which is ‘compressed’ in the verbal structure and left silent in standard adult English. We r…
How a Simple Increase in the Number of Items Can Enhance the Reliability of Linguistic Judgments
Replication is an important aspect of experimental research and it is therefore crucial that participant-level measures (e.g., judgment scores) are reliable. Reliability refers to the precision of measurement and thus informs the replicability of experiments: more precise measurements are more dependable for future reference. Formally defined as the ratio of true score variance to the total variance, reliability can be achieved by fine-tuning the…
Comparing syntactic and discourse accounts of islands and parasitic gaps
This study evaluates a recent account of islands and parasitic gaps, which proposes that island violations are unacceptable in part because they contain a referring argument in the predicate that contributes discourse-processing complexity. In two acceptability judgment experiments in Dutch, participants rated three types of filler-gap constructions that were preceded by a context manipulating the discourse accessibility of a referring argument i…
Introduction
People can address each other in many ways, and this can be studied in many ways too
An experimental investigation of wh- dependencies in four island types in Romanian
This paper gauges the acceptability of wh-extraction from four island types in Romanian, an understudied language in this respect. Linguistic theories predict wh-dependencies to be unacceptable when the gap is located inside adjuncts, complex NPs, embedded interrogative clauses, or subjects. After reviewing different theoretical approaches to island phenomena and experimental evidence from other Romance languages, we report on two acceptability j…
Consistency and variability in acceptability judgments from naive native speakers
Syntactic theories are typically construed based on acceptability judgments. These judgments are increasingly often collected experimentally, testing larger sets of linguistically naive participants. An important assumption is that participants have a very clear understanding of what it is they are asked to do, which can be assessed by establishing their internal consistency. The question we address in this paper is whether ‘human measuring instr…
Two roads diverged in a linguistic wood, and we have to travel both
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
What I Can Do with the Right Version of You
Previous research has shown that readers experience stronger immersion while reading first-person narratives than third-person narratives, but whether this difference in processing is time-sensitive remains unclear. We report on a self-paced reading experiment in which French participants read short stories in first and in third person. Additionally, participants were directly addressed with either formal or informal second-person pronouns in the…
The Impact of Pronouns of Address in Job Ads from Different Industries and Companies
Some languages make a distinction between formal and informal pronouns of address. When organizations communicate in such a language, they have to choose between the formal and informal form. The goal of this paper is to explore the role of the V-T distinction in organizational communication, specifically in generic job advertisements, through two empirical studies and to obtain a preliminary evidence-based framework for V and T in organizational…
Linguistic judgments in 3D
Linguistic judgment experiments typically elicit judgments in terms of the acceptability or surface probability of a sentence. There is evidence that the dimension of the scale on which sentences are judged influences the outcome of the experiment, but to date this evidence is only limited. This is not a trivial matter, as the elicited judgment data are increasingly considered the basis for inferences about linguistic representation. The present …
At the margins of grammar
This paper focuses on the variable placement of the particle of particle verb constructions in Dutch and German. In particular, the option to place the particle in first sentence position is studied in a judgment task. We asked native speakers of Dutch to judge utterances which differ with respect to the semantic transparency of the particle and with respect to the distance between particle and verb. In spite of an overall awkwardness of construc…
Pronouns of address in recruitment advertisements from multinational companies
In Netherlandish Dutch, Belgian Dutch, German, French, and Spanish, speakers have a choice between formal (V) and informal (T) pronouns of address. We present a quantitative study of how V and T are used on recruitment pages of multinational companies. Our corpus-based method is inspired by studies on pronouns of address in Netherlandish and Belgian Dutch by Vismans (2007) and Waterlot (2014) . Unlike these earlier studies, we provide a compariso…
Topicality and anaphoricity in Dutch scrambling
Direct objects in Dutch can precede or follow adverbs, a phenomenon commonly referred to as scrambling . The linguistic literature agrees in its assumption that scrambling is regulated by the topicality and anaphoricity status of definite objects, but theories vary as to what kinds of objects exactly are predicted to scramble. This study reports experimental data from a sentence completion experiment with adult native speakers of Dutch, showing t…
When information structure exploits syntax
This paper addresses the relation between two types of word order variation in two stages of Dutch: OV/VO variation in historical Dutch and scrambling in present-day Dutch. Information structural considerations influence both types of word order variation, and we demonstrate by means of a comprehensive corpus study that they have a comparable pattern: given objects tend to appear earlier in the sentence than new objects. We infer from this that t…
Tense and Aspect in a Spanish Literary Work and Its Translations
This paper reports on a literary corpus study of four grammatical tenses across four European languages. The corpus consists of a selection of eight chapters from Javier Marías's Spanish novel Así empieza lo malo 'Thus bad begins', and its translations to English, Dutch, and French. We annotated 1579 verb forms in the Spanish source text for tense, and, subsequently, their translations in the other languages, distinguishing between two registers …
Going city
In certain varieties of Dutch spoken among young people, the preposition and determiner in locative and directional PPs can sometimes be omitted. We argue on the basis of language data taken from Twitter and intuitions of young speakers of Dutch that nominal arguments in these constructions do not have a DP layer, the absence of which leads to a special interpretation. The option to omit the preposition is related to the structural and semantic c…
Freedom in the Dutch middle-field
This paper experimentally explores the optionality of Dutch scrambling structures with a definite object and an adverb. Most researchers argue that such structures are not freely interchangeable, but are subject to a strict discourse template. Existing analyses are based primarily on intuitions of the researchers, while experimental support is scarce. This paper reports on two experiments to gauge the existence of a strict discourse template. The…
Tense and Aspect in a Spanish Literary Work and Its Translations
This paper reports on a literary corpus study of four grammatical tenses across four European languages. The corpus consists of a selection of eight chapters from Javier Marías's Spanish novel Así empieza lo malo 'Thus bad begins', and its translations to English, Dutch, and French. We annotated 1579 verb forms in the Spanish source text for tense, and, subsequently, their translations in the other languages, distinguishing between two registers …
The Impact of Pronouns of Address in Job Ads from Different Industries and Companies
Some languages make a distinction between formal and informal pronouns of address. When organizations communicate in such a language, they have to choose between the formal and informal form. The goal of this paper is to explore the role of the V-T distinction in organizational communication, specifically in generic job advertisements, through two empirical studies and to obtain a preliminary evidence-based framework for V and T in organizational…
When information structure exploits syntax
This paper addresses the relation between two types of word order variation in two stages of Dutch: OV/VO variation in historical Dutch and scrambling in present-day Dutch. Information structural considerations influence both types of word order variation, and we demonstrate by means of a comprehensive corpus study that they have a comparable pattern: given objects tend to appear earlier in the sentence than new objects. We infer from this that t…
What I Can Do with the Right Version of You
Previous research has shown that readers experience stronger immersion while reading first-person narratives than third-person narratives, but whether this difference in processing is time-sensitive remains unclear. We report on a self-paced reading experiment in which French participants read short stories in first and in third person. Additionally, participants were directly addressed with either formal or informal second-person pronouns in the…
Topicality and anaphoricity in Dutch scrambling
Direct objects in Dutch can precede or follow adverbs, a phenomenon commonly referred to as scrambling . The linguistic literature agrees in its assumption that scrambling is regulated by the topicality and anaphoricity status of definite objects, but theories vary as to what kinds of objects exactly are predicted to scramble. This study reports experimental data from a sentence completion experiment with adult native speakers of Dutch, showing t…
Freedom in the Dutch middle-field
This paper experimentally explores the optionality of Dutch scrambling structures with a definite object and an adverb. Most researchers argue that such structures are not freely interchangeable, but are subject to a strict discourse template. Existing analyses are based primarily on intuitions of the researchers, while experimental support is scarce. This paper reports on two experiments to gauge the existence of a strict discourse template. The…
Going city
In certain varieties of Dutch spoken among young people, the preposition and determiner in locative and directional PPs can sometimes be omitted. We argue on the basis of language data taken from Twitter and intuitions of young speakers of Dutch that nominal arguments in these constructions do not have a DP layer, the absence of which leads to a special interpretation. The option to omit the preposition is related to the structural and semantic c…
At the margins of grammar
This paper focuses on the variable placement of the particle of particle verb constructions in Dutch and German. In particular, the option to place the particle in first sentence position is studied in a judgment task. We asked native speakers of Dutch to judge utterances which differ with respect to the semantic transparency of the particle and with respect to the distance between particle and verb. In spite of an overall awkwardness of construc…
Pronouns of address in recruitment advertisements from multinational companies
In Netherlandish Dutch, Belgian Dutch, German, French, and Spanish, speakers have a choice between formal (V) and informal (T) pronouns of address. We present a quantitative study of how V and T are used on recruitment pages of multinational companies. Our corpus-based method is inspired by studies on pronouns of address in Netherlandish and Belgian Dutch by Vismans (2007) and Waterlot (2014) . Unlike these earlier studies, we provide a compariso…
Topicality and anaphoricity in Dutch scrambling
Direct objects in Dutch can precede or follow adverbs, a phenomenon commonly referred to as scrambling . The linguistic literature agrees in its assumption that scrambling is regulated by the topicality and anaphoricity status of definite objects, but theories vary as to what kinds of objects exactly are predicted to scramble. This study reports experimental data from a sentence completion experiment with adult native speakers of Dutch, showing t…
When information structure exploits syntax
This paper addresses the relation between two types of word order variation in two stages of Dutch: OV/VO variation in historical Dutch and scrambling in present-day Dutch. Information structural considerations influence both types of word order variation, and we demonstrate by means of a comprehensive corpus study that they have a comparable pattern: given objects tend to appear earlier in the sentence than new objects. We infer from this that t…
Tense and Aspect in a Spanish Literary Work and Its Translations
This paper reports on a literary corpus study of four grammatical tenses across four European languages. The corpus consists of a selection of eight chapters from Javier Marías's Spanish novel Así empieza lo malo 'Thus bad begins', and its translations to English, Dutch, and French. We annotated 1579 verb forms in the Spanish source text for tense, and, subsequently, their translations in the other languages, distinguishing between two registers …
Linguistic judgments in 3D
Linguistic judgment experiments typically elicit judgments in terms of the acceptability or surface probability of a sentence. There is evidence that the dimension of the scale on which sentences are judged influences the outcome of the experiment, but to date this evidence is only limited. This is not a trivial matter, as the elicited judgment data are increasingly considered the basis for inferences about linguistic representation. The present …
An experimental investigation of wh- dependencies in four island types in Romanian
This paper gauges the acceptability of wh-extraction from four island types in Romanian, an understudied language in this respect. Linguistic theories predict wh-dependencies to be unacceptable when the gap is located inside adjuncts, complex NPs, embedded interrogative clauses, or subjects. After reviewing different theoretical approaches to island phenomena and experimental evidence from other Romance languages, we report on two acceptability j…
Consistency and variability in acceptability judgments from naive native speakers
Syntactic theories are typically construed based on acceptability judgments. These judgments are increasingly often collected experimentally, testing larger sets of linguistically naive participants. An important assumption is that participants have a very clear understanding of what it is they are asked to do, which can be assessed by establishing their internal consistency. The question we address in this paper is whether ‘human measuring instr…
Two roads diverged in a linguistic wood, and we have to travel both
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
What I Can Do with the Right Version of You
Previous research has shown that readers experience stronger immersion while reading first-person narratives than third-person narratives, but whether this difference in processing is time-sensitive remains unclear. We report on a self-paced reading experiment in which French participants read short stories in first and in third person. Additionally, participants were directly addressed with either formal or informal second-person pronouns in the…
The Impact of Pronouns of Address in Job Ads from Different Industries and Companies
Some languages make a distinction between formal and informal pronouns of address. When organizations communicate in such a language, they have to choose between the formal and informal form. The goal of this paper is to explore the role of the V-T distinction in organizational communication, specifically in generic job advertisements, through two empirical studies and to obtain a preliminary evidence-based framework for V and T in organizational…
What do children do with do ? Superfluous do in child English
In English, superfluous do is phonologically unstressed, non-emphatic, and occurs in positive assertions. We propose that superfluous do has two different flavours in child English. First, auxiliary do is used by children to express Tense in a one-to-one relation with form. Second, children use do as a light verb to overtly express the concept of action, which is ‘compressed’ in the verbal structure and left silent in standard adult English. We r…
How a Simple Increase in the Number of Items Can Enhance the Reliability of Linguistic Judgments
Replication is an important aspect of experimental research and it is therefore crucial that participant-level measures (e.g., judgment scores) are reliable. Reliability refers to the precision of measurement and thus informs the replicability of experiments: more precise measurements are more dependable for future reference. Formally defined as the ratio of true score variance to the total variance, reliability can be achieved by fine-tuning the…
Comparing syntactic and discourse accounts of islands and parasitic gaps
This study evaluates a recent account of islands and parasitic gaps, which proposes that island violations are unacceptable in part because they contain a referring argument in the predicate that contributes discourse-processing complexity. In two acceptability judgment experiments in Dutch, participants rated three types of filler-gap constructions that were preceded by a context manipulating the discourse accessibility of a referring argument i…
Introduction
People can address each other in many ways, and this can be studied in many ways too
Linguistics (12 obras) · Computer Science (9 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (5 obras) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (5 obras) · Sentence (5 obras) · Verb (5 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 obras)