Thom Westveer

List of John Benjamins publications in which Thom Westveer is involved.

Articles

Westveer, Thom 2025 Non-binary language use in a German novel: A case study of Kim de l’Horizon’s Blutbuch Linguistics in the Netherlands 2025, Doreleijers, Kristel, Remco Knooihuizen and Eva van Lier (eds.), pp. 508–524 | Article

Languages differ in terms of the strategies used to derive (non-binary) inclusive language. In many languages, pronouns present the primary target (e.g., English, Swedish). In other languages, for instance German, inclusive language also affects other parts of grammar, such as nouns. To date,… read more

Don, Jan, Petra Sleeman and Thom Westveer 2015 Three types of suffixes in French: Discarding the learned / non-learned distinction Linguistics in the Netherlands 2015, Köhnlein, Björn and Jenny Audring (eds.), pp. 33–47 | Article

Traditionally a two-way distinction is made in French between learned and non-learned suffixes, based on etymology. However, this distinction does not account for all suffixes. Furthermore, suffixes are traditionally considered as categorial heads, but some suffixes derive words of multiple… read more