Sjaak de Wit
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sjaak de Wit is involved.
Articles
2026 Chapter 12. A layered approach to habitual constructions: Typological generalizations A Layered Approach to Habitual Constructions, Gregersen, Sune and Kees Hengeveld (eds.), pp. 372–385 | Chapter
This chapter presents typological generalizations that can be derived from a comparison of the data presented in Chapters 2–11 in this volume. The languages are compared in the light of the two predictions presented in Chapter 1: (i) across and within languages, dedicated habitual expressions… read more
2026 Chapter 9. The habitual construction byvalo in Russian A Layered Approach to Habitual Constructions, Gregersen, Sune and Kees Hengeveld (eds.), pp. 266–308 | Chapter
This study examines the Russian habitual expression byvalo, focusing on its semantic, syntactic, and functional properties within the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG). Using data from the Russian National Corpus (RNC) and supplementary sources, we analyze byvalo in relation to… read more
2025 TAM splits in conditional argument indexing Linguistics in the Netherlands 2025, Doreleijers, Kristel, Remco Knooihuizen and Eva van Lier (eds.), pp. 289–303 | Article
A common type of split ergativity is conditioned by tense and/or aspect in that an ergative-absolutive system occurs in the past tense or perfective aspect and a nominative-accusative system occurs in the non-past tense(s) or imperfective aspect (DeLancey 1982, Payne 2006). This finding,… read more