Sarah D'Hertefelt
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sarah D'Hertefelt is involved.
Articles
2017 Directive conditional and complement insubordination in Germanic languages Imperatives and Directive Strategies, Van Olmen, Daniël and Simone Heinold (eds.), pp. 209–240 | Chapter
This paper deals with independent or insubordinate conditional and complement clauses that express directive meanings. On a descriptive level, I show that a variety of directive subtypes can be distinguished for both strategies, i.e. requests and threats for the conditional constructions and… 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
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


