Hans den Besten
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hans den Besten is involved.
2012 Chapter 11. Reduplication in Afrikaans Roots of Afrikaans: Selected writings of Hans den Besten, Wouden, Ton van der (ed.), pp. 195–220 | Chapter
2010 Is there “preposition stranding in COMP” in Afrikaans? No way! Structure Preserved: Studies in syntax for Jan Koster, Zwart, Jan-Wouter and Mark de Vries (eds.), pp. 57–64 | Article
2009 In search of a submerged phonology: The case of early Cape Dutch Pidgin Gradual Creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends, Selbach, Rachel, Hugo C. Cardoso and Margot van den Berg (eds.), pp. 219–241 | Article
Due to the orthography in which the scattered data of early Cape Dutch Pidgin (CDP) until about 1720 have come down to us the phonology of this pidgin seems to be fairly ‘Dutch’ in nature. Yet this conflicts with Baron van Reede’s complaint about the Khoekhoen’s pronunciation of Dutch. Van Reede’s… read more
2009 Demonstratives in Afrikaans and Cape Dutch Pidgin: A first attempt Complex Processes in New Languages, Aboh, Enoch O. and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 201–219 | Article
Afrikaans seems to have lost the Dutch independent demonstrative dat ‘that’ as well as the pronoun het ‘it’ and the attributive element deze ‘this, these’, while independent dit ‘this’ seems to have taken over the functions of dat and het and while attributive die ‘that, those’ has acquired a… read more
2007 Relexification and pidgin development: The case of Cape Dutch Pidgin Deconstructing Creole, Ansaldo, Umberto, Stephen Matthews and Lisa Lim (eds.), pp. 141–164 | Article
1996 Associative DPs Linguistics in the Netherlands 1996, Cremers, Crit and Marcel den Dikken (eds.), pp. 13–24 | Article
1994 8. Theories focusing on the European input Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 87–98 | Chapter
1994 24. Fronting Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 303–315 | Chapter
1992 De Sociolinguïstische Geschiedenis Van Het Negerhollands: Een Eerste Overzicht Thema's en trends in de sociolinguistiek, pp. 67–80 | Article
In this paper we describe a number of features of the history of Negerhollands (Creole Dutch), spoken on the Danish Antilles, later U.S. Virgin Islands, between around 1700 and 1900 (the last remaining speaker died recently). Special attention is paid to early history and demography, linguistic… read more
1990 Stranding Scrambling and Barriers, Grewendorf, Günther and Wolfgang Sternefeld (eds.), pp. 77–92 | Article
1986 Double Negation and the Genesis of Afrikaans Substrata versus Universals in Creole Genesis: Papers from the Amsterdam Creole Workshop, April 1985, Muysken, Pieter and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 185–230 | Article
1983 The Verbal Complex in Continental West Germanic On the Formal Syntax of the Westgermania: Papers from the 3rd Groningen Grammar Talks (3e Groninger Grammatikgespräche), Groningen, January 1981, Abraham, Werner (ed.), pp. 155–216 | Article