Jean-Christophe Verstraete
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jean-Christophe Verstraete is involved.
Book series
ISSN 0167-7373
Journal
Journal of Historical Linguistics
General Editor: Silvia Luraghi and Guglielmo Inglese
ISSN 2210-2116 | E‑ISSN 2210‑2124
Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country
Edited by Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Diane Hafner
This volume offers a state-of-the-art survey of linguistic, anthropological, archaeological and historical work focused on Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, in Australia’s northeast. The volume also honours Bruce Rigsby, emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Queensland,… read more[Culture and Language Use, 18] 2016. x, 492 pp.
The Genitive
Edited by Anne Carlier and Jean-Christophe Verstraete
This volume, the fifth in the series Case and Grammatical Relations across Languages, is devoted to genitive constructions in a range of Indo-European languages (Russian, French, Romanian, German and Swedish), as well as Finnish, Bantu languages and Northern Akhvakh (Northeast Caucasian).… read more[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, 5] 2013. vii, 356 pp.
Formal Evidence in Grammaticalization Research
Edited by An Van linden, Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Kristin Davidse
This collective volume focuses on the crucial role of formal evidence in recognizing and explaining instances of grammaticalization. It addresses the hitherto neglected issue of system-internal factors steering grammaticalization and also revisits formal recognition criteria such as Lehmann and… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 94] 2010. viii, 344 pp.
Grounding and headedness in the noun phrase
Edited by Jean-Christophe Verstraete
Special issue of Functions of Language 11:1 (2004) 145 pp.
2022 Conjunctions and clause linkage in Australian languages: A typological study Studies in Language 46:3, pp. 594–646 | Article
This study analyses the role of conjunctions in clause linkage in Australian languages. Conjunctions are seemingly straightforward clause-linking devices, but they remain under-studied, both for Australian languages and from a broader typological perspective. In this study, we propose a… read more
2022 Pathways of initial consonant loss: A Middle Paman case study Journal of Historical Linguistics 12:1, pp. 1–30 | Article
This paper investigates the historical loss of root-initial consonants, using a case study of Middle Paman languages of Cape York Peninsula, in northeastern Australia. Systematic loss of initial consonants is a typologically unusual phenomenon, mainly found in Australia, that has often been… read more
2016 Land and language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, Verstraete, Jean-Christophe and Diane Hafner (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Article
This volume has a dual purpose. Firstly, it offers a state-of-the-art survey of linguistic, anthropological, archaeological and historical work in Cape York Peninsula, situated in the northeast of Australia, and the adjacent region of the Gulf Country, in and around the Gulf of Carpentaria. At the… read more
2016 Chapter 3. Running in the family: Patterns of complement insubordination in Germanic Insubordination, Evans, Nicholas and Honoré Watanabe (eds.), pp. 65–88 | Article
This chapter provides a survey of insubordination patterns (as defined by Evans 2007) in five Germanic languages, Dutch, German, English, Swedish and Danish. The analysis focuses on a type of insubordination that is productive in many Germanic languages, viz. insubordinate complement clauses,… read more
2015 Personal pronouns with determining functions in Australian languages Studies in Language 39:1, pp. 159–198 | Article
This paper analyses the adnominal use of personal pronouns in a sample of 75 Australian languages. We develop two arguments. First, we argue that in all of the adnominal uses examined, the personal pronoun has a determiner-like function, showing both the functional properties and some of the… read more
2013 Genitive case and genitive constructions: An introduction The Genitive, Carlier, Anne and Jean-Christophe Verstraete (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
2012 Contact-induced restructuring of pronominal morphosyntax in Umpithamu (Cape York Peninsula, Australia) Diachronica 29:3, pp. 326–358 | Article
This paper analyses the morphosyntactic status of pronouns in Umpithamu, a language from Cape York Peninsula (Australia). The analysis shows that pronominal morphosyntax in Umpithamu deviates from what can be expected historically and typologically, and attributes this to restructuring under the… read more
2012 A typology of complement insubordination in Dutch Studies in Language 36:1, pp. 123–153 | Article
This paper presents an analysis of complement insubordination in Dutch, i.e. structures that are formally marked as subordinate complement clauses but conventionally used as main clauses. We develop a typology of seven distinct construction types (in three semantic domains), none of which have been… read more
2011 Impersonal constructions in Umpithamu and the Lamalamic languages Impersonal Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective, Malchukov, Andrej L. and Anna Siewierska (eds.), pp. 607–626 | Article
In the four Pama-Nyungan languages Umpithamu, Morrobolam, Mbarrumbathama and Rimanggudinhma there is a core set of impersonals centred around experiencer object constructions. They describe involuntary physical processes, and are formally characterized by lack of nominative pronominal… read more
2010 Introduction Formal Evidence in Grammaticalization Research, Van linden, An, Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Kristin Davidse (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
2010 Focus, mood and clause linkage in Umpithamu (Cape York Peninsula, Australia) Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy: Syntax and pragmatics, Bril, Isabelle (ed.), pp. 451–468 | Article
Umpithamu is poor in markers that specifically encode clause linkage, but it relies on markers from other domains, specifically mood and information structure. Such markers can contribute to clause linkage in three semiotically distinct ways. The first is compositional encoding, as with the… read more
2004 Preverbal positions in three Germanic languages: The role of scope as a functional principle Functional Linguistics and Contrastive Description, Davidse, Kristin and Liesbet Heyvaert (eds.), pp. 105–136 | Article
This study investigates the opposition between intra-clausal and extra-clausal positions in the preverbal domain in English, German and Dutch. It is argued that some of the traditional criteria used to distinguish between these positions, especially the criterion of pronominal resumption, are not… read more
2004 Introduction: Grounding and headedness in the noun phrase Grounding and headedness in the noun phrase, Verstraete, Jean-Christophe (ed.), pp. 1–5 | Article
1998 A semiotic model for the description of levels in conjunction: External, internal-modal and internal-speech functional Functions of Language 5:2, pp. 179–211 | Article
This paper attempts to develop a comprehensive model for the problem of internal vs. external conjunction (Halliday & Hasan 1976). It is first argued that the distinction between internal and external conjunction is not merely a matter of semantics, but that the two types are semiotically… read more