Gerlof Bouma
List of John Benjamins publications in which Gerlof Bouma is involved.
Articles
2024 Auxiliaries in Old Dutch: A diachronic parallel corpus exploration Journal of Historical Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study explores the use of auxiliaries in the oldest text available for Old Dutch, the Wachtendonck Psalter, dating from the 10th century. Our aim is to understand why there are so few different auxiliaries in this text in comparison to other texts in Old Dutch. We tackle this question by… read more
2021 Chapter 4. A lexical resource for computational historical linguistics The Swedish FrameNet++: Harmonization, integration, method development and practical language technology applications, Dannélls, Dana, Lars Borin and Karin Friberg Heppin (eds.), pp. 97–122 | Chapter
In this chapter we present the diachronic dimension of Swedish FrameNet++. We describe the historical lexical resources currently available for Swedish, linked to the Contemporary Swedish lexicon Saldo. We present a case study of how interlinking the dictionaries simultaneously allows us to study… read more
2011 Production and comprehension in context: The case of word order freezing Bidirectional Optimality Theory, Benz, Anton and Jason Mattausch (eds.), pp. 169–190 | Article
Freezing refers to a loss of word order freedom found across typologically very different languages. It occurs when argument identifying mechanisms such as agreement and case do not sufficiently distinguish verbal arguments. Word order can in such situations be said to be exceptionally used to… read more