Jack Hoeksema
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 736194 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jack Hoeksema |
| PRENOMES | Jack |
| SOBRENOME | Hoeksema |
| ASSINATURA | HOEKSEMA J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9464-9569 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Adverbs of degree in Early Middle Dutch1
Adverbs of degree are prone to undergo change, and new adverbs frequently emerge through grammaticalisation. These adverbs tend to adhere to various syntactic and semantic restrictions that govern their usage depending on their degree of grammaticalisation (Klein 1998). During the grammaticalisation process, they first tend to expand in function and then become more specialised (Bolinger 1972, Klein 1998). This article provides documentation for …
Rillen van angst en blaken van zelfvertrouwen
Dutch van is used to mark emotions and feelings which cause bodily reactions and mental states in combinations such as rillen van angst ‘shiver with fear’, sprakeloos van verbazing ‘speechless with astonishment’ and blaken van zelfvertrouwen ‘beam with self-confidence’. The classification of emotions along the four dimensions of evaluation (valence), potency (control), activation (arousal) and (un)predictability of Fontaine (2006) is discussed an…
Dirk Geeraerts en de diachrone semantiek
This paper focuses on the merits of Dirk Geeraerts in the field of (diachronic) lexical semantics. The article highlights Geeraerts’ work on prototypes and metaphor. Some of Geeraerts’ most illuminating case-studies are reviewed and a number of characteristic features of this part of Geeraerts’ work are identified and presented
Langeafstandsverplaatsing in het Nederlands, Engels en Duits
In this article, we present corpus data from Dutch and English on long-distance movement and discuss its diachronic development in Dutch, English and German. Long-distance movement is the displacement phenomenon characterized by the appearance of a part of a dependent clause in a higher clause (e.g. What crimes did the FBI discover he had committed?). It has played a central role within generative grammar over the past few decades. The picture th…
Studies in Modeltheoretic Semantics
Licht en recht
Light and right The adjectives licht and recht can be used as adverbs of degree; they can also be used to express a negative-polar meaning in combination with a restricted number of verbs. In this squib, we will focus on the negative-polar and collocational properties of licht and recht by means of corpus data. Licht is shown to be associated with futural clauses, often in combination with the verb vergeten ‘to forget’, while recht is associated …
On the Dutch temporal adverbial goed en wel
The paper investigates the origin, the development, the semantics and the pragmatics of the temporal use of the Dutch expression goed en wel ‘good and well’. We argue that the expression has developed from a meaning “safe and sound” into an indicator of the end of a preparatory phase or transition period, as well as a marker of the beginning of a new state. We observe that temporal goed en wel always requires a secondary state of affairs that is …
Degree Resultatives as Second-Order Constructions
Resultatives in English and Dutch have developed special degree readings. These readings stem from a reinterpretation of the resultative predicate as indicating a high degree rather than an actual result. For example, when a parent says I love you to death , one need not call the cops, since the sentence is not about love turning lethal, but merely indicative of a high degree of affection. Such cases have often been noted in the literature as idi…
Positive polarity predicates
This paper presents Dutch and English predicates that behave as positive polarity items and provides a partial, semantically-grounded classification of this group of PPIs. The items are studied from the perspective of anti-licensing behavior (by negation, either locally or long-distance, in questions, and by weakly negative quantifiers such as little and few ). Predicates, unlike quantifiers, do not have wide scope readings (which allow quantific…
Not that I know of
The paper discusses hedges such as
The Middle Dutch negative clitic
Discourse scalarity
Dutch Enig
In combinations with singular count nouns, the Dutch indefinite determiner enig ‘some/any’ shows a diachronic distributional shift from nonveridical environments in general to a strict subset thereof, namely negative, conditional and interrogative contexts. Similarities with Greek indefinites of the kanenas-series are explored, and an argument is given that at some point enig has split into two uses, one of which is currently on its way out. None…
The grammatical versatility of taboo terms
Taboo terms in certain English expressions and constructions are intensifiers, which have spread as a unit over time to various syntactic positions (Hoeksema & Napoli 2008). Here we look at the pragmatic coherence that has allowed such semantically disparate terms to be grammaticalized as a unit. We examine language using taboo terms in English with comparisons to Dutch, Italian, and other languages. The terms studied here regard religion, diseas…
Chapter 2. Jespersen recycled
Just for the hell of it
The two English constructions exemplified in Let's get the hell out of here (type G) and They beat the hell out of him (type B) differ both syntactically and semantically, but in both the taboo expression has the force of an intensifier. History (through a corpus investigation) reveals that the B-construction started as a literal exorcism ( beat the devil out of someone ), where the hell substituted for the devil , and semantic bleaching ultimate…
Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items
Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items contains a selection of papers on the semantics, acquisition and licensing behavior of negation. Negation, being one of the prevalent features of any human language, has many facets of interest to linguists, psychologists and philosophers alike. In recent years, much attention has been paid to the complicated distributional patterns of polarity items. Many of the contributions in this volume are devoted…
Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items
On the Grammaticalization of Negative Polarity Items
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session Dedicated to the Contributions of Charles J. Fillmore (1994)
Paratactic and subordinative So
The contrast between subordination and co-ordination, from both a syntactic viewpoint and a semantic viewpoint, is assumed by most formal theories of grammar today, so much so that generally only avowed a-formalists or anti-formalists seriously entertain the possibility that any other type of relationship may exist between clauses. Yet paratactic constructions persist in nagging us, undermining precisely that contrast, sometimes competing with co…
Some Remarks on Focus Adverbs
Much of what we have to say in the present paper should be thought of as an attempt to get a better understanding of the intricate complexities surrounding focus adverbs. To this end, we discuss a number of restrictions which govern the occurrence of different classes of focus adverbs in Dutch, German and English. We are aware that in doing so we limit ourselves primarily to the descriptive level—a decision which some may well disapprove of Indee…
The V2 Conspiracy
A condition on circular chains
Chomsky's (1981) i-within-i condition (also written as i/i) blocks co-indexation of a phrase with one of its proper subconstituents: (I) *[...a 1 ...] i We argue here that the i-within-i condition as stated in (I) and used in current work is both empirically inadequate and theoretically incoherent. 2 Many of the data that the i-within-i condition has been taken to account for should, instead, be accounted for by a range of unrelated constraints. …
The Representation of (In)Definiteness
Representation of (In)definiteness collects the most important current research, reflecting a wide range of approaches, on a central theoretical issue in linguistics: characterizing the distinction between definite and indefinite expressions. The authors of these 11 original essays, which draw on current work in theoretical syntax and semantics, were charged by the editors to take more than usual heed of alternative analyses offered by other theo…
The Semantics of Non-Boolean “And” 1
The meaning of “and” in noun phrase conjunctions differs from its ordinary Boolean interpretation in other cases of conjunction, such as sentential and predicate conjunction. More precisely, this is the case when the noun phrases conjoined are referrring terms. A regular Boolean interpretation is still possible whenever two or more quantificational NPs are conjoined. Disjunction is always a Boolean operation. A semantics based on the notion of se…
Negative polarity and the comparative
Just for the hell of it
The two English constructions exemplified in Let's get the hell out of here (type G) and They beat the hell out of him (type B) differ both syntactically and semantically, but in both the taboo expression has the force of an intensifier. History (through a corpus investigation) reveals that the B-construction started as a literal exorcism ( beat the devil out of someone ), where the hell substituted for the devil , and semantic bleaching ultimate…
Dutch Enig
In combinations with singular count nouns, the Dutch indefinite determiner enig ‘some/any’ shows a diachronic distributional shift from nonveridical environments in general to a strict subset thereof, namely negative, conditional and interrogative contexts. Similarities with Greek indefinites of the kanenas-series are explored, and an argument is given that at some point enig has split into two uses, one of which is currently on its way out. None…
Discourse scalarity
Paratactic and subordinative So
The contrast between subordination and co-ordination, from both a syntactic viewpoint and a semantic viewpoint, is assumed by most formal theories of grammar today, so much so that generally only avowed a-formalists or anti-formalists seriously entertain the possibility that any other type of relationship may exist between clauses. Yet paratactic constructions persist in nagging us, undermining precisely that contrast, sometimes competing with co…
A condition on circular chains
Chomsky's (1981) i-within-i condition (also written as i/i) blocks co-indexation of a phrase with one of its proper subconstituents: (I) *[...a 1 ...] i We argue here that the i-within-i condition as stated in (I) and used in current work is both empirically inadequate and theoretically incoherent. 2 Many of the data that the i-within-i condition has been taken to account for should, instead, be accounted for by a range of unrelated constraints. …
Plurality and Conjunction
Negative polarity and the comparative
To Be Continued
Some aspects of Arnim von Stechow's analysis of comparatives (this volume) are criticised, especially his failure to make a semantic distinction between oblique and sentential comparatives. Several arguments in favour of this distinction are provided and some prima facie difficulties considered. In addition, Von Stechow's analysis of the ambiguity of comparison in intensional contexts is critically examined; a quantifying-in solution is argued to…
Order, concord and consituency
Some Theoretical Consequences of Dutch Complementizer Agreement
Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1986), pp. 147-158
Linguistics in the Netherlands 1985
Syntax und Semantik der Negation im Deutschen
The Semantics of Non-Boolean “And” 1
The meaning of “and” in noun phrase conjunctions differs from its ordinary Boolean interpretation in other cases of conjunction, such as sentential and predicate conjunction. More precisely, this is the case when the noun phrases conjoined are referrring terms. A regular Boolean interpretation is still possible whenever two or more quantificational NPs are conjoined. Disjunction is always a Boolean operation. A semantics based on the notion of se…
The Representation of (In)Definiteness
Representation of (In)definiteness collects the most important current research, reflecting a wide range of approaches, on a central theoretical issue in linguistics: characterizing the distinction between definite and indefinite expressions. The authors of these 11 original essays, which draw on current work in theoretical syntax and semantics, were charged by the editors to take more than usual heed of alternative analyses offered by other theo…
The V2 Conspiracy
A condition on circular chains
Chomsky's (1981) i-within-i condition (also written as i/i) blocks co-indexation of a phrase with one of its proper subconstituents: (I) *[...a 1 ...] i We argue here that the i-within-i condition as stated in (I) and used in current work is both empirically inadequate and theoretically incoherent. 2 Many of the data that the i-within-i condition has been taken to account for should, instead, be accounted for by a range of unrelated constraints. …
Some Remarks on Focus Adverbs
Much of what we have to say in the present paper should be thought of as an attempt to get a better understanding of the intricate complexities surrounding focus adverbs. To this end, we discuss a number of restrictions which govern the occurrence of different classes of focus adverbs in Dutch, German and English. We are aware that in doing so we limit ourselves primarily to the descriptive level—a decision which some may well disapprove of Indee…
Paratactic and subordinative So
The contrast between subordination and co-ordination, from both a syntactic viewpoint and a semantic viewpoint, is assumed by most formal theories of grammar today, so much so that generally only avowed a-formalists or anti-formalists seriously entertain the possibility that any other type of relationship may exist between clauses. Yet paratactic constructions persist in nagging us, undermining precisely that contrast, sometimes competing with co…
On the Grammaticalization of Negative Polarity Items
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session Dedicated to the Contributions of Charles J. Fillmore (1994)
Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items
Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items contains a selection of papers on the semantics, acquisition and licensing behavior of negation. Negation, being one of the prevalent features of any human language, has many facets of interest to linguists, psychologists and philosophers alike. In recent years, much attention has been paid to the complicated distributional patterns of polarity items. Many of the contributions in this volume are devoted…
Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items
Just for the hell of it
The two English constructions exemplified in Let's get the hell out of here (type G) and They beat the hell out of him (type B) differ both syntactically and semantically, but in both the taboo expression has the force of an intensifier. History (through a corpus investigation) reveals that the B-construction started as a literal exorcism ( beat the devil out of someone ), where the hell substituted for the devil , and semantic bleaching ultimate…
The grammatical versatility of taboo terms
Taboo terms in certain English expressions and constructions are intensifiers, which have spread as a unit over time to various syntactic positions (Hoeksema & Napoli 2008). Here we look at the pragmatic coherence that has allowed such semantically disparate terms to be grammaticalized as a unit. We examine language using taboo terms in English with comparisons to Dutch, Italian, and other languages. The terms studied here regard religion, diseas…
Chapter 2. Jespersen recycled
Dutch Enig
In combinations with singular count nouns, the Dutch indefinite determiner enig ‘some/any’ shows a diachronic distributional shift from nonveridical environments in general to a strict subset thereof, namely negative, conditional and interrogative contexts. Similarities with Greek indefinites of the kanenas-series are explored, and an argument is given that at some point enig has split into two uses, one of which is currently on its way out. None…
Discourse scalarity
The Middle Dutch negative clitic
Not that I know of
The paper discusses hedges such as
Positive polarity predicates
This paper presents Dutch and English predicates that behave as positive polarity items and provides a partial, semantically-grounded classification of this group of PPIs. The items are studied from the perspective of anti-licensing behavior (by negation, either locally or long-distance, in questions, and by weakly negative quantifiers such as little and few ). Predicates, unlike quantifiers, do not have wide scope readings (which allow quantific…
Degree Resultatives as Second-Order Constructions
Resultatives in English and Dutch have developed special degree readings. These readings stem from a reinterpretation of the resultative predicate as indicating a high degree rather than an actual result. For example, when a parent says I love you to death , one need not call the cops, since the sentence is not about love turning lethal, but merely indicative of a high degree of affection. Such cases have often been noted in the literature as idi…
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