Current trends in analyzing syntactic variation
Edited by Ludovic De Cuypere, Clara Vanderschueren and Gert de Sutter
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 31] 2017. vi, 325 pp.
Ludovic De Cuypere
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ludovic De Cuypere is involved.
Titles
Limiting the Iconic: From the metatheoretical foundations to the creative possibilities of iconicity in language
Ludovic De Cuypere
Iconicity has become a popular notion in contemporary linguistic research. This book is the first to present a synthesis of the vast amount of scholarship on linguistic iconicity which has been produced in the previous decades, ranging from iconicity in phonology and morpho-syntax to the role of… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 6] 2008. xiii, 286 pp.
Naturalness and Iconicity in Language
Edited by Klaas Willems and Ludovic De Cuypere
Iconicity and naturalness remain controversial concepts in recent linguistic research. The present volume aims to scrutinize unresolved issues of iconicity and naturalness in language. The studies discuss topics such as naturalism in the philosophy of language and the epistemology of linguistics,… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 7] 2008. ix, 249 pp.
2023 Alternating Italian thetic and sentence-focus constructions: A case study Revue Romane 58:2, pp. 246–277 | Article
In this article we study the alternation between the two most prominent Italian thetic and sentence-focus constructions, viz. the Syntactic Inversion Construction (henceforth: SIC), e.g. Arriva il treno (‘The train is arriving’), and the Presentational Cleft (henceforth: PC), e.g. C’è il treno… read more
2017 Introduction: Current trends in analyzing syntactic variation Current trends in analyzing syntactic variation, De Cuypere, Ludovic, Clara Vanderschueren and Gert de Sutter (eds.), pp. 1–7 | Introduction
2015 Differential Subject Marking in Nepali imperfective constructions: A probabilistic grammar approach Studies in Language 39:1, pp. 1–23 | Article
We investigate Differential Subject Marking in Nepali imperfective constructions. No previous accounts were satisfying in explaining under what conditions the ergative marker is preferably used. Building on a probabilistic approach to syntactic variability, we conducted statistical analyses on the… read more
2014 Variable satellite placement in spoken Dutch: A corpus study of the role of the proximity principle International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 19:4, pp. 548–569 | Article
This article presents a corpus study of the variable placement of adverbial satellites in spoken Dutch. It is widely contended that the relative order of satellites is motivated by three general principles: information status, length and the proximity principle. The proximity principle maintains… read more
2008 Introduction: Naturalness and iconicity in language Naturalness and Iconicity in Language, Willems, Klaas and Ludovic De Cuypere (eds.), pp. 1–23 | Miscellaneous
2007 Double negation and iconicity Insistent Images, Tabakowska, Elżbieta, Christina Ljungberg and Olga Fischer (eds.), pp. 301–320 | Article
Typological research suggests that double negation - the use of two negative markers to denote one negative meaning - is a popular strategy amongst a wide variety of languages. This paper focuses on two types of double negation. The first type, exemplified by Fr. Je ne chante pas ‘I don’t sing’,… read more
2006 Negative indefinites: A typological and diachronic perspective on a Brabantic construction Types of Variation: Diachronic, dialectal and typological interfaces, Nevalainen, Terttu, Juhani Klemola and Mikko Laitinen (eds.), pp. 305–319 | Article