Sander Lestrade

List of John Benjamins publications in which Sander Lestrade is involved.

Titles

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2017

Edited by Sander Lestrade and Bert Le Bruyn

The 48th annual conference of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 4th, 2017. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research. At this year’s meeting, 64 papers were presented, of which 18 were submitted in writing.… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 34] 2017. iii, 155 pp. | open access

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2016

Edited by Jenny Audring and Sander Lestrade

Linguistics in the Netherlands is a collection of internationally peer-reviewed articles representing current research in the Netherlands, in various fields of linguistics.This year's volume is based on the 47th annual conference of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands (Utrecht, 7 February,… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 33] 2016. iv, 179 pp. | open access

Articles (5) | Order by:

Lestrade, Sander 2015 A case of cultural evolution: The emergence of morphological case Linguistics in the Netherlands 2015, Köhnlein, Björn and Jenny Audring (eds.), pp. 105–115 | Article

Morphological case is a cross-linguistically widespread strategy to mark the role of participants of an event. Using a computer simulation, this paper will show how case can emerge in languages that have no rules of grammar as a result of cultural evolution. For this, only very general cognitive… read more

Lestrade, Sander 2011 Dutch spatial case Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles, Kittilä, Seppo, Katja Västi and Jussi Ylikoski (eds.), pp. 283–304 | Article

This paper argues that Dutch has spatial case in the form of r-pronouns. The use of these pronouns is rather restricted, which explains the fact that they have not been recognized as spatial case markers before. The restricted use in Dutch is due to two simultaneously applying principles that are… read more

Lestrade, Sander and Peter de Swart 2010 Individuation and semantic role interpretation in the adpositional domain Transitivity: Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing, Brandt, Patrick and Marco García García (eds.), pp. 279–300 | Article

In this chapter we discuss the role of Individuation on semantic role interpretation in the adpositional domain. Taking the findings of Aristar (1996, 1997) for the case domain as our starting point we examine whether similar observations can be made for the adpositional domain. On the basis of a… read more

Lestrade, Sander 2008 The correspondence between directionality and transitivity Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P, Asbury, Anna, Jakub Dotlačil, Berit Gehrke and Rick Nouwen (eds.), pp. 149–174 | Article

Verkerk, Annemarie and Sander Lestrade 2008 The encoding of adjectives Linguistics in the Netherlands 2008, Koppen, Marjo van and Bert Botma (eds.), pp. 157–168 | Article