Joost Zwarts
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 980987 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Joost Zwarts |
| PRENOMES | Joost |
| SOBRENOME | Zwarts |
| ASSINATURA | ZWARTS J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8892-6523 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Lexical and grammatical arity-reduction
In many languages, reciprocal meanings are expressed either by grammatical means or by using lexical predicates. The grammatical strategy is productive and may involve derivational affixes (Swahili -an ) or pronouns (English each other ) with transitive forms, whereas lexical reciprocity is expressed by a restricted class of intransitive predicates like English kiss or meet . The situation is more complex in Romance languages, where reciprocal ve…
‘Between’ constructions in Biblical Hebrew
Unlike its English counterpart between , the Biblical Hebrew (BH) preposition bên does not allow a conjoined object ( between A and B ), but it uses additional prepositions in two typologically unusual patterns: bên A w ə -bên B ‘between A and-between B’ and bên A lə-B ‘between A to-B’. This article shows that these two patterns, and their equivalence with the English one, can be accounted for semantically, on the basis of the underlying filter b…
From ‘back’ to ‘again’ in Dutch
On the basis of a model-theoretic analysis of the polysemy of the Dutch adverb terug (covering ‘back’ and ‘again’) and its partial synonyms, a semantic map is constructed that (i) explains how backward direction in space relates to repetition in time and what role counterdirectionality plays in that relation, (ii) integrates, in a semantically motivated way, various meanings that have been identified in separate strands of research, and (iii) all…
Shifting animacy shifts
De Swart and de Hoop (henceforth dS&dH) make the suggestion that the linguistic distinction between animate and inanimate categories should be brought within the scope of the formal semantic theory of types and type shifts, overt and covert.I would like to work out this interesting idea a bit more.The result might be different from what dS&dH had in mind, although it is hopefully in the same promising spirit.Let me start with their idea that the …
Spatial semantics
Reference to space, especially with prepositions, plays a central role in natural language and is receiving more and more attention over the past decades. One line of research uses formal semantic modeling, using topological and other geometrical concepts such as regions, vectors, and paths. Another line of research has drawn attention to the role of function, force-dynamics, polysemy, prototypes, and crosslinguistic variation in this domain. Thi…
Counterdirectionality Crosslinguistically
Neste artigo, investigamos a expressão da “contradirecionalidade”, contrastando dados do português brasileiro com o holandês. Num primeiro momento, definimos contradirecionalidade usando dados do inglês, e apresentamos algumas de suas subdivisões que serão então investigadas no português brasileiro e no holandês
From Have to Have-verbs
Ways of Going ‘Back’
This paper is about the role that axes play in defining paths of motion. In spite of the rich literature on both domains (axes and paths) there is no explicit account of the relation between them. Almost all of the linguistic and psychological work on reference frames or axes concentrates on their role in determining static, locative relations between two objects (e.g. Levinson 2003, Van der Zee and Slack 2003, Svenonius 2006), but we do not yet …
Definidos Fracos Denotam Espécies
Este artigo apresenta uma análise dos definidos fracos (por exemplo, ‘atender o telefone’) como introduzidos por Carlson e Sussman (2005). A proposta é que esses definidos se referem a espécies (kinds), que são instanciados por indivíduos comuns quando combinados com predicados de objeto (object-level predicates). Essa combinação é possível mediante uma regra lexical que eleva predicados de objeto para predicados de kind (kind-level predicates), …
Severe maternal morbidity among immigrant women in the Netherlands
This 2006 study investigated ethnicity-related factors contributing to sub-standard maternity care and the effects on severe maternal morbidity among immigrant women in the Netherlands. In-depth interviews were carried out with 40 immigrant and 10 native Dutch women. The immigrant women reported that health care providers often paid insufficient attention to their pregnancy-related complaints, especially in cases of pre-eclampsia. They also repor…
Author's Reply - Getting to the Points of a Semantic Map
Reply to Commentator
Semantic Map Geometry
This paper discusses two ways in which the geometry of a semantic map can be defined: on the basis of a set of cross-linguistic data or on the basis of a semantic analysis of the meanings involved. I will argue that under a purely "data-driven" approach certain important aspects of contiguity in semantic maps, like exceptions and family resemblance structure, remain unclear and that we can get more insight into these aspects when working from a s…
Commentary on de Haan - Can Semantic Maps Be Built Purely Bottom-up
Commentary on de Haan
On the Dutch directional particle heen
past the house' Following Furthermore, for phrases where a preposition and the particle heen form a circumposition we use the term heenPPs
A hierarchy of locations
The encoding of direction (place, goal, source, route) in systems of adpositions and local cases is not uniformly distributed over different locations (at, in, under), but can be shown to follow a hierarchical pattern. This pattern is compared with similar hierarchies proposed in the literature about the acquisition and typology of spatial language. Differences in semantic complexity and pragmatic salience between locations might explain why such…
Less form - more meaning
Commentary on Croft and Poole, Inferring universals from grammatical variation
Article Commentary on Croft and Poole, Inferring universals from grammatical variation: Multidimensional scaling for typological analysis was published on July 1, 2008 in the journal Theoretical Linguistics (volume 34, issue 1)
Bare nominals and reference to capacities
Linguistic perspectives on numerical expressions
Prepositional numerals
Prepositional Aspect and the Algebra of Paths
Vectors as relative positions
The interpretation of modified PPs, like one meter behind the disk, far outside the village, or right under the lamp, has never received much attention in the literature about prepositions. However, as this paper shows, the modification of PPs presents an intriguing problem for a compositional semantics of PPs. This problem can be solved when the PP is interpreted, not as a set of points or mereological portions of space, but as a set of vectors,…
Complex prepositions and P-stranding in Dutch
The set of prepositions in Dutch can be divided in two classes, for which the terms type A and type B are used. The complement of a type A preposition can be stranded when its complement takes a special form (e.g. er achter 'there behind', waar in 'where in'), but this is not possible with type B prepositions (e. g. *er namens 'there in name of', *waar gedurende 'where during'). The two classes show a wide range of additional differences with res…
Lexical and Functional Direction in Dutch
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Time and space in conceptual and logical semantics
Bare nominals and reference to capacities
Less form - more meaning
Prepositional numerals
Severe maternal morbidity among immigrant women in the Netherlands
This 2006 study investigated ethnicity-related factors contributing to sub-standard maternity care and the effects on severe maternal morbidity among immigrant women in the Netherlands. In-depth interviews were carried out with 40 immigrant and 10 native Dutch women. The immigrant women reported that health care providers often paid insufficient attention to their pregnancy-related complaints, especially in cases of pre-eclampsia. They also repor…
From Have to Have-verbs
A hierarchy of locations
The encoding of direction (place, goal, source, route) in systems of adpositions and local cases is not uniformly distributed over different locations (at, in, under), but can be shown to follow a hierarchical pattern. This pattern is compared with similar hierarchies proposed in the literature about the acquisition and typology of spatial language. Differences in semantic complexity and pragmatic salience between locations might explain why such…
Complex prepositions and P-stranding in Dutch
The set of prepositions in Dutch can be divided in two classes, for which the terms type A and type B are used. The complement of a type A preposition can be stranded when its complement takes a special form (e.g. er achter 'there behind', waar in 'where in'), but this is not possible with type B prepositions (e. g. *er namens 'there in name of', *waar gedurende 'where during'). The two classes show a wide range of additional differences with res…
Time and space in conceptual and logical semantics
Spatial semantics
Reference to space, especially with prepositions, plays a central role in natural language and is receiving more and more attention over the past decades. One line of research uses formal semantic modeling, using topological and other geometrical concepts such as regions, vectors, and paths. Another line of research has drawn attention to the role of function, force-dynamics, polysemy, prototypes, and crosslinguistic variation in this domain. Thi…
Linguistic perspectives on numerical expressions
Time and space in conceptual and logical semantics
Lexical and Functional Direction in Dutch
Preview this article: Lexical and Functional Direction in Dutch, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/avt.12.21zwa-1.gif
Vectors as relative positions
The interpretation of modified PPs, like one meter behind the disk, far outside the village, or right under the lamp, has never received much attention in the literature about prepositions. However, as this paper shows, the modification of PPs presents an intriguing problem for a compositional semantics of PPs. This problem can be solved when the PP is interpreted, not as a set of points or mereological portions of space, but as a set of vectors,…
Complex prepositions and P-stranding in Dutch
The set of prepositions in Dutch can be divided in two classes, for which the terms type A and type B are used. The complement of a type A preposition can be stranded when its complement takes a special form (e.g. er achter 'there behind', waar in 'where in'), but this is not possible with type B prepositions (e. g. *er namens 'there in name of', *waar gedurende 'where during'). The two classes show a wide range of additional differences with res…
Prepositional Aspect and the Algebra of Paths
Linguistic perspectives on numerical expressions
Prepositional numerals
Bare nominals and reference to capacities
Commentary on Croft and Poole, Inferring universals from grammatical variation
Article Commentary on Croft and Poole, Inferring universals from grammatical variation: Multidimensional scaling for typological analysis was published on July 1, 2008 in the journal Theoretical Linguistics (volume 34, issue 1)
Less form - more meaning
Author's Reply - Getting to the Points of a Semantic Map
Reply to Commentator
Semantic Map Geometry
This paper discusses two ways in which the geometry of a semantic map can be defined: on the basis of a set of cross-linguistic data or on the basis of a semantic analysis of the meanings involved. I will argue that under a purely "data-driven" approach certain important aspects of contiguity in semantic maps, like exceptions and family resemblance structure, remain unclear and that we can get more insight into these aspects when working from a s…
Commentary on de Haan - Can Semantic Maps Be Built Purely Bottom-up
Commentary on de Haan
On the Dutch directional particle heen
past the house' Following Furthermore, for phrases where a preposition and the particle heen form a circumposition we use the term heenPPs
A hierarchy of locations
The encoding of direction (place, goal, source, route) in systems of adpositions and local cases is not uniformly distributed over different locations (at, in, under), but can be shown to follow a hierarchical pattern. This pattern is compared with similar hierarchies proposed in the literature about the acquisition and typology of spatial language. Differences in semantic complexity and pragmatic salience between locations might explain why such…
Severe maternal morbidity among immigrant women in the Netherlands
This 2006 study investigated ethnicity-related factors contributing to sub-standard maternity care and the effects on severe maternal morbidity among immigrant women in the Netherlands. In-depth interviews were carried out with 40 immigrant and 10 native Dutch women. The immigrant women reported that health care providers often paid insufficient attention to their pregnancy-related complaints, especially in cases of pre-eclampsia. They also repor…
Ways of Going ‘Back’
This paper is about the role that axes play in defining paths of motion. In spite of the rich literature on both domains (axes and paths) there is no explicit account of the relation between them. Almost all of the linguistic and psychological work on reference frames or axes concentrates on their role in determining static, locative relations between two objects (e.g. Levinson 2003, Van der Zee and Slack 2003, Svenonius 2006), but we do not yet …
Definidos Fracos Denotam Espécies
Este artigo apresenta uma análise dos definidos fracos (por exemplo, ‘atender o telefone’) como introduzidos por Carlson e Sussman (2005). A proposta é que esses definidos se referem a espécies (kinds), que são instanciados por indivíduos comuns quando combinados com predicados de objeto (object-level predicates). Essa combinação é possível mediante uma regra lexical que eleva predicados de objeto para predicados de kind (kind-level predicates), …
Counterdirectionality Crosslinguistically
Neste artigo, investigamos a expressão da “contradirecionalidade”, contrastando dados do português brasileiro com o holandês. Num primeiro momento, definimos contradirecionalidade usando dados do inglês, e apresentamos algumas de suas subdivisões que serão então investigadas no português brasileiro e no holandês
From Have to Have-verbs
Spatial semantics
Reference to space, especially with prepositions, plays a central role in natural language and is receiving more and more attention over the past decades. One line of research uses formal semantic modeling, using topological and other geometrical concepts such as regions, vectors, and paths. Another line of research has drawn attention to the role of function, force-dynamics, polysemy, prototypes, and crosslinguistic variation in this domain. Thi…
Shifting animacy shifts
De Swart and de Hoop (henceforth dS&dH) make the suggestion that the linguistic distinction between animate and inanimate categories should be brought within the scope of the formal semantic theory of types and type shifts, overt and covert.I would like to work out this interesting idea a bit more.The result might be different from what dS&dH had in mind, although it is hopefully in the same promising spirit.Let me start with their idea that the …
From ‘back’ to ‘again’ in Dutch
On the basis of a model-theoretic analysis of the polysemy of the Dutch adverb terug (covering ‘back’ and ‘again’) and its partial synonyms, a semantic map is constructed that (i) explains how backward direction in space relates to repetition in time and what role counterdirectionality plays in that relation, (ii) integrates, in a semantically motivated way, various meanings that have been identified in separate strands of research, and (iii) all…
‘Between’ constructions in Biblical Hebrew
Unlike its English counterpart between , the Biblical Hebrew (BH) preposition bên does not allow a conjoined object ( between A and B ), but it uses additional prepositions in two typologically unusual patterns: bên A w ə -bên B ‘between A and-between B’ and bên A lə-B ‘between A to-B’. This article shows that these two patterns, and their equivalence with the English one, can be accounted for semantically, on the basis of the underlying filter b…
Lexical and grammatical arity-reduction
In many languages, reciprocal meanings are expressed either by grammatical means or by using lexical predicates. The grammatical strategy is productive and may involve derivational affixes (Swahili -an ) or pronouns (English each other ) with transitive forms, whereas lexical reciprocity is expressed by a restricted class of intransitive predicates like English kiss or meet . The situation is more complex in Romance languages, where reciprocal ve…
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