Imke Wets
List of John Benjamins publications in which Imke Wets is involved.
Articles
2025 Uhm… The use of hesitation markers on the social media platform X in Dutch and Spanish Linguistics in the Netherlands 2025, Doreleijers, Kristel, Remco Knooihuizen and Eva van Lier (eds.), pp. 252–268 | Article
The status of hesitation markers or filled pauses (e.g., eh, uhm) is debated, with some claiming that these forms merely signal disfluencies or delays in conversation, while others argue that they are lexical items. Although more common in oral communication, hesitation markers have been… read more
2023 Argument doubling with proper nouns in spoken Dutch: A corpus study Linguistics in the Netherlands 2023, Leufkens, Sterre and Marco Bril (eds.), pp. 248–262 | Article
Argument doubling, also known as (contrastive) left-dislocation, is common in spoken Dutch, but it is unclear exactly what triggers it. Earlier proposals in the literature showed that the construction is not used for marking contrast, and suggested it is used for marking shifted topics instead.… read more