Anders Holmberg
List of John Benjamins publications in which Anders Holmberg is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2772-3720 | E‑ISSN 2772‑3739
Title
Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe Encounters
Edited by Isabelle Buchstaller, Anders Holmberg and Mohammad Almoaily
Most of what we know about pidgin and creole languages is the result of research into contact languages that developed as a consequence of European expansion into Africa and the Caribbean. The narrow focus on European lexifier and West African substrate languages has resulted in insufficient… read more[Creole Language Library, 47] 2014. v, 178 pp.
2025 Verb second in Estonian and the syntax-prosody relation Journal of Uralic Linguistics 4:2, pp. 217–268 | Article
Estonian declarative main clauses display a relatively strict verb-second (V2) order, resembling Germanic V2. However, two prosody-conditioned exceptions distinguish Estonian from Germanic: verb-third occurs with weak proforms in the ‘EPP-position’ and with nuclear-stressed finite verbs. We… read more
2024 Preface Journal of Uralic Linguistics 3:1, pp. 1–3 | Introduction
2022 Editorial foreword Journal of Uralic Linguistics 1:1, pp. 1–3 | Editorial
This article introduces the Journal of Uralic Linguistics, outlining its motivations, aims and scope. It also provides a brief overview of the contents of the inaugural issue, which contains four research papers by leading scholars in the field.
read more2014 Introduction Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe Encounters, Buchstaller, Isabelle, Anders Holmberg and Mohammad Almoaily (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Article
2010 Referring to yourself in self-talk Structure Preserved: Studies in syntax for Jan Koster, Zwart, Jan-Wouter and Mark de Vries (eds.), pp. 185–192 | Article
2003 Yes/no questions and the relation between tense and polarity in English and Finnish Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2003, Pica, Pierre (ed.), pp. 43–68 | Article
It is argued that the structure of the sentence in English as well as Finnish is C [Pol [T...]], where Pol(arity) has negative or affirmative value. Yes/no questions are derived, universally, by movement of a wh-marked Pol to C, deriving an operator-variable relation between C and Pol. No category… read more
2000 Deriving OV Order in Finnish The Derivation of VO and OV, Svenonius, Peter (ed.), pp. 123–152 | Article
1997 Introduction Clitics, Pronouns and Movement, Black, James R. and Virginia Motapanyane (eds.), pp. 9–22 | Miscellaneous
1996 Scandinavian Possessive constructions from a Northern Swedish viewpoint Microparametric Syntax and Dialect Variation, Black, James R. and Virginia Motapanyane (eds.), pp. 95–120 | Article