Robert S. Kirsner

List of John Benjamins publications in which Robert S. Kirsner is involved.

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Qualitative-Quantitative Analyses of Dutch and Afrikaans Grammar and Lexicon

Robert S. Kirsner

Sharing certain assumptions but differing in theory and practice, both Columbia School linguistics (CS) and Cognitive Grammar (CG) have increasingly supported their analyses with quantitative evidence. Citation of individual sentences, in isolation or in context, has been supplemented with counts… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 67] 2014. xi, 239 pp.

Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis

Edited by Ellen Contini-Morava, Robert S. Kirsner and Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller

This volume is the product of a Columbia School Linguistics Conference held at Rutgers University in October 1999, where the plenary speaker was Ronald W. Langacker, a founder of Cognitive Linguistics. The goal of the book is to promote two kinds of dialogue. First, dialogue between Cognitive… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 51] 2004. viii, 389 pp.

Kirsner, Robert S. 2014 Doing grammatical semantics as if it were phonetics Above and Beyond the Segments: Experimental linguistics and phonetics, Caspers, Johanneke, Yiya Chen, Willemijn Heeren, Jos Pacilly, Niels O. Schiller and Ellen van Zanten (eds.), pp. 165–173 | Article

This paper revisits two articles co-authored with van Heuven which study the semantics of grammatical signals quantitatively – as if semantics were phonetics. Kirsner & van Heuven (1988) demonstrates that the Dutch demonstrative adjective deze ‘this/these’ refers back in texts over more sentence… read more

Kirsner, Robert S. 2011 Instructional meanings, iconicity, and l’arbitraire du signe in the analysis of the Afrikaans demonstratives Linguistic Theory and Empirical Evidence, Jonge, Bob de and Yishai Tobin (eds.), pp. 97–138 | Article

Unlike the Dutch demonstratives deze (dit) and, die (dat), which can be characterized in terms of definiteness and location, Afrikaans hierdie, daardie and dié must be analyzed as signaling the meaning deixis: an instruction to the hearer to seek out and attend to some referent. Accordingly, the… read more

Heuven, Vincent J. van and Robert S. Kirsner 2004 Phonetic or phonological contrasts in Dutch boundary tones? Linguistics in the Netherlands 2004, Cornips, Leonie and Jenny Doetjes (eds.), pp. 102–113 | Article

Kirsner, Robert S. 2004 Introduction Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis, Contini-Morava, Ellen, Robert S. Kirsner and Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Miscellaneous

Heuven, Vincent J. van and Robert S. Kirsner 2002 Interaction of tone and particle in the signalling of clause type in Dutch Linguistics in the Netherlands 2002, Broekhuis, Hans and Paula Fikkert (eds.), pp. 73–84 | Article

Kirsner, Robert S. 2002 The Future of a Minimalist Linguistics in a Maximalist World Signal, Meaning, and Message: Perspectives on sign-based linguistics, Reid, Wallis, Ricardo Otheguy and Nancy Stern (eds.), pp. 339–371 | Article

Heuven, Vincent J. van and Robert S. Kirsner 1999 Interaction of Grammatical Form and Intonation: Two Experiments on Dutch Imperatives Linguistics in the Netherlands 1999, Bezooijen, Renée van and René Kager (eds.), pp. 81–96 | Article

Kirsner, Robert S. and Vincent J. van Heuven 1999 How Dutch Final Particles Constrain the Construal of Utterances: Experiment and etymology Discourse Studies in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, July 1997, Van Hoek, Karen, Andrej A. Kibrik and Leo Noordman (eds.), pp. 165–184 | Article

Kirsner, Robert S., Vincent J. van Heuven and Johanneke Caspers 1998 From Request to Command: An Exploratory Experimental Study of Grammatical Form, Intonation, and Pragmatic Particle in Dutch Imperatives Linguistics in the Netherlands 1998, Bezooijen, Renée van and René Kager (eds.), pp. 135–148 | Article

Kirsner, Robert S. 1996 4. The Human Factor and the Insufficiency of Invariant Meanings Toward a Calculus of Meaning: Studies in markedness, distinctive features and deixis, Andrews, Edna and Yishai Tobin (eds.), pp. 83–106 | Article

Kirsner, Robert S. and Vincent J. van Heuven 1996 Boundary tones and the semantics of the Dutch final particles hé, hoor, zeg and joh Linguistics in the Netherlands 1996, Cremers, Crit and Marcel den Dikken (eds.), pp. 133–146 | Article

Kirsner, Robert S. 1995 Review of Korrel (1991): Duration in English: A basic choice, illustrated in comparison with Dutch Studies in Language 19:1, pp. 244–248 | Review

Kirsner, Robert S., Vincent J. van Heuven and Renée van Bezooijen 1994 Interaction of particle and prosody in the interpretation of factual Dutch sentences Linguistics in the Netherlands 1994, Bok-Bennema, Reineke and Crit Cremers (eds.), pp. 107–118 | Article

Kirsner, Robert S. 1991 Review of Rudzka-Ostyn (1988): Topics in cognitive linguistics Studies in Language 15:1, pp. 149–174 | Review

Kirsner, Robert S. 1989 Does sign-oriented linguistics have a future? On sign, text, and the falsifiability of theoretical constructs From Sign to Text: A semiotic view of communication, Tobin, Yishai (ed.), pp. 161–178 | Article

Kirsner, Robert S. 1985 Iconicity and grammatical meaning Iconicity in Syntax: Proceedings of a symposium on iconicity in syntax, Stanford, June 24–26, 1983, Haiman, John † (ed.), pp. 249–270 | Article