Myrthe Bergstra

List of John Benjamins publications in which Myrthe Bergstra is involved.

Articles

Bergstra, Myrthe 2017 The change of Frisian infinitives Linguistics in the Netherlands 2017, Lestrade, Sander and Bert Le Bruyn (eds.), pp. 17–29 | Article

This paper discusses the two types of infinitives in Frisian: infinitives ending in -E (e.g. rinne “walk”) and infinitives ending in -EN (e.g. rinnen “walk”). It shows that their distribution can be accounted for by their different underlying syntactic structure: the -E infinitive has a fully… read more

Bergstra, Myrthe, Hannah N.M. De Mulder and Peter Coopmans 2013 Children’s ability to use speaker certainty in learning novel words Linguistics in the Netherlands 2013, Aalberse, Suzanne and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article

One of the cues that children might use in learning words is the level of certainty that speakers demonstrate in their naming of a novel object. This study presented 52 4–5 year old Dutch children with a word-learning task in which two puppets each used the same label for a different novel object.… read more