Sterre Leufkens

List of John Benjamins publications in which Sterre Leufkens is involved.

Titles

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2023

Edited by Sterre Leufkens and Marco Bril

Linguistics in the Netherlands is a collection of internationally peer-reviewed articles presenting current linguistic research in the Netherlands and Belgium. This volume is based on the 54th annual conference of the Linguistics Society of the Netherlands (on February 3, 2023). For this volume, 14… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 40] 2023. v, 317 pp. | open access

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2022

Edited by Jorrig Vogels and Sterre Leufkens

Linguistics in the Netherlands is a collection of internationally peer-reviewed articles presenting current linguistic research in the Netherlands.This volume is based on the 53rd annual conference of the Linguistics Society of the Netherlands (online, on February 4, 2022). For this volume, 14… read more

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 39] 2022. iv, 294 pp. | open access

Articles (5) | Order by:

Leufkens, Sterre and Marco Bril 2023 Foreword Linguistics in the Netherlands 2023, Leufkens, Sterre and Marco Bril (eds.), pp. 1–3 | Introduction

Suijkerbuijk, Michelle, Sterre Leufkens and Marten van der Meulen 2022 De dochter doet een powernap: Definite article possessives with kinship terms in Dutch Linguistics in the Netherlands 2022, Vogels, Jorrig and Sterre Leufkens (eds.), pp. 192–208 | Article

While kinship relations in Dutch are usually introduced by a possessive determiner, Twitter users have recently been observed to use a definite article in that position. To learn more about the characteristics of this construction, we performed an exploratory investigation of the definite… read more

Vogels, Jorrig and Sterre Leufkens 2022 Foreword Linguistics in the Netherlands 2022, Vogels, Jorrig and Sterre Leufkens (eds.), p. | Introduction

Leufkens, Sterre 2013 The transparency of creoles Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 28:2, pp. 323–362 | Article

In this article I propose that creoles are relatively transparent compared to their source languages. This means that they display more one-to-one relations between meaning and form. Transparency should be distinguished from the concepts of simplicity, ease of acquisition, and regularity.… read more

Leufkens, Sterre 2013 Time reference in English indirect speech Casebook in Functional Discourse Grammar, Mackenzie, J. Lachlan and Hella Olbertz (eds.), pp. 189–212 | Article

When a quotation is syntactically embedded in English, there are repercussions for temporal reference: absolute referential elements have to shift to the new deictic centre. Absolute adverbials must be adapted, dropped or replaced by relative elements. Tense undergoes so-called sequence of tenses… read more