Tonjes Veenstra
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tonjes Veenstra is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2542-7059
Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken
Edited by Norval Smith, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh
Issues in multilingualism and its implications for communities and society at large, language acquisition and use, language diversification, and creative language use associated with new linguistic identities have become hot topics in both scientific and popular debates. A ubiquitous aspect of… read more[Contact Language Library, 57] 2020. ix, 400 pp.
Creole Languages and Linguistic Typology
Edited by Parth Bhatt and Tonjes Veenstra
It is generally assumed that Creole languages form a separate category from the rest of the world’s languages. The papers in this volume, written by internationally renowned scholars in the field of Creole studies, seek to explore more deeply this commonly held assumption by comparing the… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 57] 2013. v, 279 pp.
Cleft Structures
Edited by Katharina Hartmann and Tonjes Veenstra
The phenomenon of clefts is beyond doubt a golden oldie. It has captivated linguists of different disciplines for decades. The fascination arises from the unique syntax of clefts in interaction with their pragmatic and semantic interpretation. Clefts structure sentences according to the information… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 208] 2013. viii, 348 pp.
Creoles and Typology
Edited by Parth Bhatt and Tonjes Veenstra
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 26:1 (2011) v, 233 pp.
Creolization and Contact
Edited by Norval Smith and Tonjes Veenstra
This volume contains revised and extended versions of a selection of the papers presented at “The Amsterdam Workshop on Language Contact and Creolization.” These studies apply the concept of relexification to creoles as well as other contact languages; highlight the relevance of strategies of… read more[Creole Language Library, 23] 2001. vi, 323 pp.
2020 Introduction. Pieter C. Muysken: A brief biography, a language contact bibliography and a Festschrift summary Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken, Smith, Norval, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh (eds.), pp. 1–34 | Chapter
2016 Little v and cross-linguistic variation: Evidence from code switching and the Surinamese creoles Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation, Bidese, Ermenegildo, Federica Cognola and Manuela Caterina Moroni (eds.), pp. 317–336 | Article
The main claim of this paper is that little v is responsible for a range of grammatical properties of the predicate phrase that it selects for. Bilingual light verb constructions in several code-switching varieties provide strong evidence for this claim. It allows us to broaden the empirical scope… read more
2016 Non-finiteness in Saamáka Finiteness Matters: On finiteness-related phenomena in natural languages, Eide, Kristin Melum (ed.), pp. 189–210 | Article
In this paper we demonstrate that the creole language Saamáka does exhibit the finite vs. non-finite distinction by analysing the semantic characteristics and syntactic distribution of complementizer fu. We adopt a Klein style analysis of finiteness and argue that clauses embedded under this… read more
2013 Introduction Creole Languages and Linguistic Typology, Bhatt, Parth and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 1–7 | Article
2013 Introduction Cleft Structures, Hartmann, Katharina and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 1–32 | Article
2011 A Tribute to Norval Smith Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 26:2, pp. 235–246 | Article
2011 Introduction Creoles and Typology, Bhatt, Parth and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 1–3 | Article
2009 Verb allomorphy and the syntax of phases Complex Processes in New Languages, Aboh, Enoch O. and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 99–113 | Article
In a number of French-related creoles a distinction is made between long and short forms of verbs. We argue that the alternation is a reflex of French inflectional morphology that has survived the creolization process, showing that the result is a long-short opposition of verb forms, similar to the… read more
2006 Modelling Creole Genesis: Headedness in morphology Structure and Variation in Language Contact, Deumert, Ana and Stephanie Durrleman (eds.), pp. 61–83 | Chapter
In this paper we address two current claims in creole studies: (i) adults in the creolization are the innovators; (ii) the grammatical properties of creoles are either the result of continuities from the superstrate language(s) or from the substrate language(s), i.e. discontinuities are assumed not… read more
2003 Creole prototypes as basic varieties and inflectional morphology Information Structure and the Dynamics of Language Acquisition, Dimroth, Christine and Marianne Starren (eds.), pp. 235–264 | Article
2001 Introduction Creolization and Contact, Smith, Norval and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article
1994 14. Saramaccan Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 165–178 | Chapter
1994 A Note on Theme-Serial Verb Constructions in Haitian Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 9:1, pp. 121–126 | To be specified
1994 11. Universalist approaches Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 121–134 | Chapter
1994 23. Serial verbs Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 289–301 | Chapter
1994 13. Haitian Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 153–164 | Chapter
1994 24. Fronting Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 303–315 | Chapter
1993 The Creolization of Dutch Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 8:1, pp. 29–80 | Article
The aim of this article is a systematic investigation of certain grammatical aspects of three languages that came about as by-products of colonial expansion of the Dutch during the seventeenth century: Afrikaans, Negerhollands, and Berbice Dutch. The discussion is centered on three grammatical… read more
1993 Serial verb constructions, parameter settings and thematic restrictions on argument sharing Linguistics in the Netherlands 1993, Drijkoningen, Frank and Kees Hengeveld (eds.), pp. 153–164 | Article