Bert Le Bruyn
List of John Benjamins publications in which Bert Le Bruyn is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2950-189X | E‑ISSN 2950‑1881
Titles
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2018
Edited by Bert Le Bruyn and Janine Berns
The 49th annual conference of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 3rd, 2018. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year’s meeting, 65 papers were presented, of which 19 were submitted in writing.… read more
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
Weak Referentiality
Edited by Ana Aguilar-Guevara, Bert Le Bruyn and Joost Zwarts
This volume brings together studies in the domain of weak referentiality, the phenomenon that a definite or indefinite noun phrase lacks its usual referential force. Several papers investigate syntactic or semantic properties of indefinite noun phrases, such as modality, number neutrality, narrow… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 219] 2014. xii, 390 pp.
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
2017 Specificity and validity in the SLA literature Cross-linguistic Influence in Bilingualism: In honor of Aafke Hulk, Blom, Elma, Leonie Cornips and Jeannette Schaeffer (eds.), pp. 75–100 | Chapter
We propose a new paradigm for testing the influence of specificity on the acquisition of English articles (Ionin, 2003; Ionin et al., 2004; Ionin et al., 2009; Ko et al., 2010). We discuss and resolve issues of validation and present a preview and discussion of the results the new paradigm… read more
2014 Advances in weak referentiality Weak Referentiality, Aguilar-Guevara, Ana, Bert Le Bruyn and Joost Zwarts (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
2014 Inalienable possession: the status of the definite article Weak Referentiality, Aguilar-Guevara, Ana, Bert Le Bruyn and Joost Zwarts (eds.), pp. 311–334 | Article
We argue that the use of the definite article in French inalienable possession constructions does not lead us to abandon a unified analysis of definite articles. We face two challenges. First, the definite article in French inalienable possession constructions does not seem to convey uniqueness:
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2007 The partitive article dei in Italian Linguistics in the Netherlands 2007, Los, Bettelou and Marjo van Koppen (eds.), pp. 138–149 | Article