Henriëtte de Swart
List of John Benjamins publications in which Henriëtte de Swart is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1574-552X
2025 Intermediate perfects : A comparison of Dutch, Catalan and Breton Languages in Contrast 25:1, pp. 1–22 | Article
The cross-linguistic variation in distribution and meaning of perfect constructions building on
have
+ past participle in Western European languages has been analysed in terms of the aoristic drift, the shift from resultative via perfect to perfective past meaning that takes us… read more
2020 Chapter 2. De la sémantique des temps verbaux à la traductologie: Une comparaison multilingue de L’Étranger de Camus The Expression of Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality in Albert Camus’s L'Étranger and Its Translations / L'Étranger de Camus et ses traductions : questions de temps, d'aspect, de modalité et d'évidentialité (TAME): An empirical study / Etude empirique, Corre, Eric, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville and Huy Linh Dao (eds.), pp. 11–38 | Chapter
We develop a linguistic analysis of the distribution and meaning of the verb forms used to translate the Passé Composé in Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, English and Greek. To achieve this, we carry out a multilingual comparison of tense use in L’Étranger, based on an exploration of data… read more
2019 The Perfect in dialogue: Evidence from Dutch Linguistics in the Netherlands 2019, Berns, Janine and Elena Tribushinina (eds.), pp. 162–175 | Article
We investigate the use of the perfect in dialogue in Dutch and – for comparison – report on data from Dutch narrative discourse as well as on data from both registers in English. Our approach is corpus-based with data drawn from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and its translation to… read more
2009 Effect of Learning a New Language on Children's Willingness to Communicate Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen 81, pp. 31–40 | Article
The present study was set up to evaluate to what extent multilingual study groups can be considered homogeneous. A series of interviews were conducted to investigate the metacommunicative awareness of 101 children. We compared children who had learned an additional language in a formal context… read more
2006 Aspectual implications of the semantics of plural indefinites Non-definiteness and Plurality, Vogeleer, Svetlana and Liliane Tasmowski (eds.), pp. 161–189 | Article
1998 Frequency and Tense Use in French Tense and Aspect: The contextual processing of semantic indeterminacy, Vogeleer, Svetlana, Walter De Mulder and Ilse Depraetere (eds.), pp. 43–60 | Article
Abstract. This paper deals wilh the use of Ihe passé simple and the imparfait of French in frequentative sentences. It is argued that frequency implies sentence-internal quantification, meaning that frequentative sentences report just one (complex) eventuality. This claim is related to the fact… read more
1995 Almerindo Ojeda. Linguistic individuals Studies in Language 19:2, pp. 590–594 | Squib