Rik De Busser

List of John Benjamins publications in which Rik De Busser is involved.

Title

Language Structure and Environment: Social, cultural, and natural factors

Edited by Rik De Busser and Randy J. LaPolla

Language Structure and Environment is a broad introduction to how languages are shaped by their environment. It makes the argument that the social, cultural, and natural environment of speakers influences the structures and development of the languages they speak. After a general overview, the… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 6] 2015. vi, 370 pp.

Articles

De Busser, Rik 2015 Chapter 1. The influence of social, cultural, and natural factors on language structure: An overview Language Structure and Environment: Social, cultural, and natural factors, De Busser, Rik and Randy J. LaPolla (eds.), pp. 1–28 | Article

This book is an attempt to give an overview of how language interacts with its environment, or better, how actual linguistic structure is formed, changed and influenced by different aspects of the human environment. The focus is mainly on effects of the extra-linguistic environment on the actual… read more

De Busser, Rik 2011 Towards an analysis of argument alignment in Takivatan Bunun Studies in Transitivity: Insights from Language Documentation, Kratochvíl, František, Alexander R. Coupe and Randy J. LaPolla (eds.), pp. 523–555 | Article

This article describes the morphological and syntactic mechanisms that are involved in the overt and covert realisation of core arguments in Takivatan Bunun. It argues that the interactions between these mechanisms make it difficult to explain Takivatan predicate-argument structure in terms of… read more