Egbert Fortuin
List of John Benjamins publications in which Egbert Fortuin is involved.
Articles
2026 Chapter 12. A layered approach to habitual constructions: Typological generalizations A Layered Approach to Habitual Constructions, Gregersen, Sune and Kees Hengeveld (eds.), pp. 372–385 | Chapter
This chapter presents typological generalizations that can be derived from a comparison of the data presented in Chapters 2–11 in this volume. The languages are compared in the light of the two predictions presented in Chapter 1: (i) across and within languages, dedicated habitual expressions… read more
2026 Chapter 9. The habitual construction byvalo in Russian A Layered Approach to Habitual Constructions, Gregersen, Sune and Kees Hengeveld (eds.), pp. 266–308 | Chapter
This study examines the Russian habitual expression byvalo, focusing on its semantic, syntactic, and functional properties within the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG). Using data from the Russian National Corpus (RNC) and supplementary sources, we analyze byvalo in relation to… read more
2023 The function of extra negation: Insights from the Dutch privative construction Functions of Language 30:2, pp. 209–237 | Article
This paper provides insight into the phenomenon of extra negation, also known as non-compositional, expletive, or pleonastic negation. It provides a corpus-based analysis of the Dutch negative privative construction, which consists of zonder ‘without’ and niet ‘not’, in which one negation does… read more

