Jean-Christophe Verstraete
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3823766 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jean-Christophe Verstraete |
| PRENOMES | Jean-Christophe |
| SOBRENOME | Verstraete |
| ASSINATURA | VERSTRAETE J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | KU Leuven |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 270 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Evidence against unidirectionality in the emergence of middle voice systems
Middle voice systems are characterized by the distribution of a middle marker over two macro-classes of verbs: oppositional and non-oppositional verbs. In diachronic studies, it has been proposed that the historical link between the two groups is unidirectional, with middle marking spreading from oppositional to non-oppositional verbs. In this paper, we challenge this assumption and discuss two case studies, one from Anatolian and one from Paman …
Conjunctions and clause linkage in Australian languages
This study analyses the role of conjunctions in clause linkage in Australian languages. Conjunctions are seemingly straightforward clause-linking devices, but they remain under-studied, both for Australian languages and from a broader typological perspective. In this study, we propose a functional definition of conjunctions, as set against other resources for clause linkage. We show that this captures not just the prototypical free-standing eleme…
Shaking up counterfactuality
sponsorship: Work on this paper was funded by grant C14/18/034 of the Research Council of the University of Leuven. (Research Council of the University of Leuven|C14/18/034)
Pathways of initial consonant loss
This paper investigates the historical loss of root-initial consonants, using a case study of Middle Paman languages of Cape York Peninsula, in northeastern Australia. Systematic loss of initial consonants is a typologically unusual phenomenon, mainly found in Australia, that has often been regarded as a starting point for far-reaching changes in root structure, phonotactics and even phoneme inventory. So far, the literature has focused mainly on…
Umbuygamu
Umbuygamu is a Pama-Nyungan language of the east coast of Cape York Peninsula, in the northeast of Australia. Genetically, the language belongs to the Lamalamic subgroup (Laycock 1969, Rigsby 1997) of Paman languages, themselves a subgroup of Pama-Nyungan (as proposed by Hale 1964, 1966; see also Bowern & Atkinson 2012). Umbuygamu is the language of three clans at the southern end of Princess Charlotte Bay, about halfway up the east coast of Cape…
Mbarrumbathama (Lamalama)
Mbarrumbathama is a clan-named variety of Lamalama, a language of Cape York Peninsula, in the northeast of Australia. Together with Umbuygamu (Ogilvie 1994, Sommer 1998, Verstraete 2017) and Rimanggudinhma (Godman 1993), Lamalama forms the Lamalamic subgroup of Paman languages (Laycock 1969, Rigsby 1997, Verstraete 2018), themselves a subgroup of Pama-Nyungan (Hale 1964, 1966; see also Bowern & Atkinson 2012). The language is no longer spoken, bu…
The Genetic Status of Lamalamic
This paper investigates the genetic status of Lamalamic, a grouping of Lamalama, Umbuygamu, and Rimanggudinhma, three languages from the east coast of Cape York Peninsula (Australia). Lamalamic has long been assumed in the literature to form a subgroup of Paman (Pama-Nyungan), but its status as a genetic unit has not yet been examined in a systematic way. I provide evidence from historical phonology and morphology to show that the three languages…
Lamalamic Root Structure
This study analyses the structure of lexical roots in the Lamalamic languages of Cape York Peninsula, in the northeast of Australia. The analysis shows how Lamalamic roots are shaped diachronically by processes of erosion and expansion, leading to root forms that are unusual by Australian standards. Erosion processes include the loss of initial consonants, resulting in vowel-initial roots, and the loss of entire initial syllables, resulting in mo…
Land and language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country
Land and language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country
This volume has a dual purpose. Firstly, it offers a state-of-the-art survey of linguistic, anthropological, archaeological and historical work in Cape York Peninsula, situated in the northeast of Australia, and the adjacent region of the Gulf Country, in and around the Gulf of Carpentaria. At the same time, the volume honours Bruce Rigsby, emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Queensland, whose pioneering work in this region in…
Personal pronouns with determining functions in Australian languages
This paper analyses the adnominal use of personal pronouns in a sample of 75 Australian languages. We develop two arguments. First, we argue that in all of the adnominal uses examined, the personal pronoun has a determiner-like function, showing both the functional properties and some of the behaviour of more typical determiner categories like demonstratives or articles. We support this analysis with evidence from positioning tendencies, semantic…
A Grammar and Lexicon of Yintyingka
This book provides a description of Yintyingka, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula in Australia. The language is no longer spoken, but the analysis is based on a range of archival materials from the 1920s to the 1990s, as well as the authors' fieldwork experience with neighbouring languages. This book pays special attention to the language in its social context, historical-comparative analysis, and the methods used to analyse the arch…
Independent complement constructions in Swedish and Danish
A typology of complement insubordination in Dutch
This paper presents an analysis of complement insubordination in Dutch, i.e. structures that are formally marked as subordinate complement clauses but conventionally used as main clauses. We develop a typology of seven distinct construction types (in three semantic domains), none of which have been analyzed in detail before. From a more general perspective, we show that insubordinate constructions provide a fresh perspective on the analysis of mo…
Contact-induced restructuring of pronominal morphosyntax in Umpithamu (Cape York Peninsula, Australia)
This paper analyses the morphosyntactic status of pronouns in Umpithamu, a language from Cape York Peninsula (Australia). The analysis shows that pronominal morphosyntax in Umpithamu deviates from what can be expected historically and typologically, and attributes this to restructuring under the influence of intensive contact with Lamalamic languages, to which it is not closely related. The evidence for contact-induced restructuring combines a cl…
The Functions of Represented Speech and Thought in Umpithamu Narratives
This paper analyses the functions of represented speech and thought (RST) in narratives in Umpithamu, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula (Australia). The paper first surveys the different mechanisms available for marking a shift from the narrator's deictic centre to a narrative participant, including a number of constructions that use perception and motion predicates to signal RST. The analysis then focuses on the narrative functions …
Experienced action constructions in Umpithamu
This paper is a semantic analysis of ‘experienced action’ constructions in Umpithamu, a Paman language from Cape York Peninsula (Australia). The basic argument is that these constructions are related to the better-attested category of experiencer object constructions (e.g. Evans, Non-nominative subjects 1: 69–192, 2004), which in Umpithamu describe involuntary experience of bodily processes. Experienced action constructions extend the feature of …
Revisiting deontic modality and related categories
Formal Evidence in Grammaticalization Research
This collective volume focuses on the crucial role of formal evidence in recognizing and explaining instances of grammaticalization. It addresses the hitherto neglected issue of system-internal factors steering grammaticalization and also revisits formal recognition criteria such as Lehmann and Hopper’s parameters of grammaticalization. The articles investigate developments of such phenomena as modal auxiliaries, attitudinal markers, V1-condition…
Animacy and information structure in the system of ergative marking in Umpithamu
Optional ergative marking and its implications for linguistic theory
Illocution and Focus at the semantics-pragmatics interface in Umpithamu (Cape York, Australia)
This article analyses the interaction between semantic and pragmatic information in illocution and focus marking in Umpithamu (Cape York, Australia), and it uses these data to argue that while FDG can deal with the basics of the semantics-pragmatics interface, it lacks three crucial features to represent the interaction between semantic and pragmatic information in an adequate way. The marking of illocution illustrates the importance of preferred…
The Semantic Development of Essential and Crucial
peer reviewed
Same source, same target, different paths
The status of purpose, reason, and intended endpoint in the typology of complex sentences
This study argues that constructions of purpose, reason and intended endpoint have a special status in typologies of complex sentences, because they combine features of the adverbial domain and the complement domain. The feature they share with adverbial clauses is that they do not function as the object of the predicate of the main clause, but instead elaborate on its circumstances. The feature they share with complement clauses is that unlike o…
Subjective and objective modality
A Grammar and Lexicon of Yintyingka
This book provides a description of Yintyingka, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula in Australia. The language is no longer spoken, but the analysis is based on a range of archival materials from the 1920s to the 1990s, as well as the authors' fieldwork experience with neighbouring languages. This book pays special attention to the language in its social context, historical-comparative analysis, and the methods used to analyse the arch…
The role of mood marking in complex sentences A case study of Australian languages
This study investigates the role of mood markers in the semantic composition of complex sentence constructions, on the basis of a sample of Australian languages. The question of mood marking in complex sentences is theoretically significant because it involves a clause-internal category that plays a crucial role in the semantics of a construction above the level of the individual clause. Previous work on mood in complex sentences has shown that p…
The Genetic Status of Lamalamic
This paper investigates the genetic status of Lamalamic, a grouping of Lamalama, Umbuygamu, and Rimanggudinhma, three languages from the east coast of Cape York Peninsula (Australia). Lamalamic has long been assumed in the literature to form a subgroup of Paman (Pama-Nyungan), but its status as a genetic unit has not yet been examined in a systematic way. I provide evidence from historical phonology and morphology to show that the three languages…
Mbarrumbathama (Lamalama)
Mbarrumbathama is a clan-named variety of Lamalama, a language of Cape York Peninsula, in the northeast of Australia. Together with Umbuygamu (Ogilvie 1994, Sommer 1998, Verstraete 2017) and Rimanggudinhma (Godman 1993), Lamalama forms the Lamalamic subgroup of Paman languages (Laycock 1969, Rigsby 1997, Verstraete 2018), themselves a subgroup of Pama-Nyungan (Hale 1964, 1966; see also Bowern & Atkinson 2012). The language is no longer spoken, bu…
Lamalamic Root Structure
This study analyses the structure of lexical roots in the Lamalamic languages of Cape York Peninsula, in the northeast of Australia. The analysis shows how Lamalamic roots are shaped diachronically by processes of erosion and expansion, leading to root forms that are unusual by Australian standards. Erosion processes include the loss of initial consonants, resulting in vowel-initial roots, and the loss of entire initial syllables, resulting in mo…
Animacy and information structure in the system of ergative marking in Umpithamu
Optional ergative marking and its implications for linguistic theory
Two types of coordination in clause combining
Independent complement constructions in Swedish and Danish
The nature and origins of counterfactuality in simple clauses
Scalar quantity implicatures and the interpretation of modality
Initial and final position for adverbial clauses in English
Article Initial and final position for adverbial clauses in English: the constructional basis of the discursive and syntactic differences was published on June 8, 2004 in the journal Linguistics (volume 42, issue 4)
The Functions of Represented Speech and Thought in Umpithamu Narratives
This paper analyses the functions of represented speech and thought (RST) in narratives in Umpithamu, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula (Australia). The paper first surveys the different mechanisms available for marking a shift from the narrator's deictic centre to a narrative participant, including a number of constructions that use perception and motion predicates to signal RST. The analysis then focuses on the narrative functions …
Construing confrontation
This study provides a linguistic perspective on the structure and the interpretation of a key historical narrative in Umpithamu (a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula, Australia), against the background of a larger corpus of narrative texts in Umpithamu. The analysis focuses on the role of participant tracking devices in the macro-structure of the narrative, and the role of case marking in the build-up of narrative motifs. It is argued n…
Experienced action constructions in Umpithamu
This paper is a semantic analysis of ‘experienced action’ constructions in Umpithamu, a Paman language from Cape York Peninsula (Australia). The basic argument is that these constructions are related to the better-attested category of experiencer object constructions (e.g. Evans, Non-nominative subjects 1: 69–192, 2004), which in Umpithamu describe involuntary experience of bodily processes. Experienced action constructions extend the feature of …
Revisiting deontic modality and related categories
Same source, same target, different paths
The status of purpose, reason, and intended endpoint in the typology of complex sentences
This study argues that constructions of purpose, reason and intended endpoint have a special status in typologies of complex sentences, because they combine features of the adverbial domain and the complement domain. The feature they share with adverbial clauses is that they do not function as the object of the predicate of the main clause, but instead elaborate on its circumstances. The feature they share with complement clauses is that unlike o…
The Semantic Development of Essential and Crucial
peer reviewed
Pathways of initial consonant loss
This paper investigates the historical loss of root-initial consonants, using a case study of Middle Paman languages of Cape York Peninsula, in northeastern Australia. Systematic loss of initial consonants is a typologically unusual phenomenon, mainly found in Australia, that has often been regarded as a starting point for far-reaching changes in root structure, phonotactics and even phoneme inventory. So far, the literature has focused mainly on…
The functional value of non-integration in clause combining
It is argued that the distinction between integrated and non-integrated intonation for dependent clauses, which is often used as an important parameter in typologies of clause combining mechanisms, is not a unitary phenomenon. The distinction between integrated and non-integrated intonation in these contexts correlates with two different functional parameters. On the one hand, there is the parameter of interpersonal independence, according to whi…
A semiotic model for the description of levels in conjunction
This paper attempts to develop a comprehensive model for the problem of internal vs. external conjunction (Halliday & Hasan 1976). It is first argued that the distinction between internal and external conjunction is not merely a matter of semantics, but that the two types are semiotically significant categories. By postulating that internal and external conjunction are cryptotypically anchored in the speaker-encoding vs. content-related grammar o…
Attitudinal disjuncts and illocutionary force in clause combining
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Discourse and Perspective in Cognitive Linguistics
The Theory of Functional Grammar
Subjective and objective modality
The functional value of non-integration in clause combining
It is argued that the distinction between integrated and non-integrated intonation for dependent clauses, which is often used as an important parameter in typologies of clause combining mechanisms, is not a unitary phenomenon. The distinction between integrated and non-integrated intonation in these contexts correlates with two different functional parameters. On the one hand, there is the parameter of interpersonal independence, according to whi…
Usage-Based Models of Language (review)
Reviewed by: Usage-based models of language ed. by Michael Barlow, Suzanne Kemmer Jean-Christophe Verstraete Usage-based models of language. Ed. by Michael Barlow and Suzanne Kemmer. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2000. Pp. xxviii, 356. ISBN 1575862204. $22.95. Usage-based models of language provides an overview of recent work in linguistics that takes usage data seriously in modeling and theory formation, regarding language use not just as an inst…
Initial and final position for adverbial clauses in English
Article Initial and final position for adverbial clauses in English: the constructional basis of the discursive and syntactic differences was published on June 8, 2004 in the journal Linguistics (volume 42, issue 4)
Two types of coordination in clause combining
Scalar quantity implicatures and the interpretation of modality
The role of mood marking in complex sentences A case study of Australian languages
This study investigates the role of mood markers in the semantic composition of complex sentence constructions, on the basis of a sample of Australian languages. The question of mood marking in complex sentences is theoretically significant because it involves a clause-internal category that plays a crucial role in the semantics of a construction above the level of the individual clause. Previous work on mood in complex sentences has shown that p…
The Semantic Development of Essential and Crucial
peer reviewed
Same source, same target, different paths
The status of purpose, reason, and intended endpoint in the typology of complex sentences
This study argues that constructions of purpose, reason and intended endpoint have a special status in typologies of complex sentences, because they combine features of the adverbial domain and the complement domain. The feature they share with adverbial clauses is that they do not function as the object of the predicate of the main clause, but instead elaborate on its circumstances. The feature they share with complement clauses is that unlike o…
The nature and origins of counterfactuality in simple clauses
Construing confrontation
This study provides a linguistic perspective on the structure and the interpretation of a key historical narrative in Umpithamu (a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula, Australia), against the background of a larger corpus of narrative texts in Umpithamu. The analysis focuses on the role of participant tracking devices in the macro-structure of the narrative, and the role of case marking in the build-up of narrative motifs. It is argued n…
Illocution and Focus at the semantics-pragmatics interface in Umpithamu (Cape York, Australia)
This article analyses the interaction between semantic and pragmatic information in illocution and focus marking in Umpithamu (Cape York, Australia), and it uses these data to argue that while FDG can deal with the basics of the semantics-pragmatics interface, it lacks three crucial features to represent the interaction between semantic and pragmatic information in an adequate way. The marking of illocution illustrates the importance of preferred…
Formal Evidence in Grammaticalization Research
This collective volume focuses on the crucial role of formal evidence in recognizing and explaining instances of grammaticalization. It addresses the hitherto neglected issue of system-internal factors steering grammaticalization and also revisits formal recognition criteria such as Lehmann and Hopper’s parameters of grammaticalization. The articles investigate developments of such phenomena as modal auxiliaries, attitudinal markers, V1-condition…
Animacy and information structure in the system of ergative marking in Umpithamu
Optional ergative marking and its implications for linguistic theory
The Functions of Represented Speech and Thought in Umpithamu Narratives
This paper analyses the functions of represented speech and thought (RST) in narratives in Umpithamu, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula (Australia). The paper first surveys the different mechanisms available for marking a shift from the narrator's deictic centre to a narrative participant, including a number of constructions that use perception and motion predicates to signal RST. The analysis then focuses on the narrative functions …
Experienced action constructions in Umpithamu
This paper is a semantic analysis of ‘experienced action’ constructions in Umpithamu, a Paman language from Cape York Peninsula (Australia). The basic argument is that these constructions are related to the better-attested category of experiencer object constructions (e.g. Evans, Non-nominative subjects 1: 69–192, 2004), which in Umpithamu describe involuntary experience of bodily processes. Experienced action constructions extend the feature of …
Revisiting deontic modality and related categories
A typology of complement insubordination in Dutch
This paper presents an analysis of complement insubordination in Dutch, i.e. structures that are formally marked as subordinate complement clauses but conventionally used as main clauses. We develop a typology of seven distinct construction types (in three semantic domains), none of which have been analyzed in detail before. From a more general perspective, we show that insubordinate constructions provide a fresh perspective on the analysis of mo…
Contact-induced restructuring of pronominal morphosyntax in Umpithamu (Cape York Peninsula, Australia)
This paper analyses the morphosyntactic status of pronouns in Umpithamu, a language from Cape York Peninsula (Australia). The analysis shows that pronominal morphosyntax in Umpithamu deviates from what can be expected historically and typologically, and attributes this to restructuring under the influence of intensive contact with Lamalamic languages, to which it is not closely related. The evidence for contact-induced restructuring combines a cl…
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