Rik van Gijn
List of John Benjamins publications in which Rik van Gijn is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0378-4177 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9978
Titles
Switch Reference 2.0
Edited by Rik van Gijn and Jeremy Hammond
Switch reference is a grammatical process that marks a referential relationship between arguments of two (or more) verbs. Typically it has been characterized as an inflection pattern on the verb itself, encoding identity or non-identity between subject arguments separately from traditional person… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 114] 2016. vi, 503 pp.
Information Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences
Edited by Rik van Gijn, Jeremy Hammond, Dejan Matić, Saskia van Putten and Ana Vilacy Galucio
This volume is dedicated to exploring the crossroads where complex sentences and information management – more specifically information structure and reference tracking – come together. Complex sentences are a highly relevant but understudied domain for studying notions of IS and RT. On the one… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 105] 2014. vi, 409 pp.
Subordination in Native South American Languages
Edited by Rik van Gijn, Katharina Haude and Pieter Muysken
In terms of its linguistic and cultural make-up, the continent of South America provides linguists and anthropologists with a complex puzzle of language diversity. The continent teems with small language families and isolates, and even languages spoken in adjacent areas can be typologically vastly… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 97] 2011. viii, 315 pp.
2023 The Netherlands Urban Field Station: How language diversity promotes equality of opportunity Linguistics in the Netherlands 2023, Leufkens, Sterre and Marco Bril (eds.), pp. 293–300 | Article
2023 The Netherlands Urban Field Station: Taaldiversiteit inzetten voor gelijkere kansen Linguistics in the Netherlands 2023, Leufkens, Sterre and Marco Bril (eds.), pp. 285–292 | Article
2020 Separating layers of information: The anatomy of contact zones Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken, Smith, Norval, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh (eds.), pp. 161–178 | Chapter
Linguistic areas, or Sprachbünde, can be described very broadly as geographical areas where a group of languages have become similar to each other because of prolonged contact between the speakers of the different languages. Numerous linguistic areas have been proposed over the years and all… read more
2019 Chapter 4. Case markers as subordinators in South American indigenous languages Nominalization in Languages of the Americas, Zariquiey, Roberto, Masayoshi Shibatani and David W. Fleck (eds.), pp. 197–248 | Chapter
Nominalization (in different forms and guises) is one of the most common subordination strategies in South American indigenous languages. A frequently used nominalization strategy is to use case markers to indicate the semantic or structural relationship of the nominalized clause to the proposition… read more
2016 Switch reference: An overview Switch Reference 2.0, Gijn, Rik van and Jeremy Hammond (eds.), pp. 1–54 | Article
Until not very long ago, switch reference was regarded as a marginal phenomenon found in a handful of lesser-known languages. An increasing number of studies of the phenomenon made it clear, however, that the geographical extent of switch-reference systems is rather large, spanning large parts of… read more
2016 Switch reference in Western South America Switch Reference 2.0, Gijn, Rik van and Jeremy Hammond (eds.), pp. 153–206 | Article
Switch reference systems occur in a number of languages spoken in a contiguous area in western South America, across language families, and even across macro culture areas (Andes and Amazon). At first sight, this is suggestive of contact-induced diffusion, but the different systems show rather a… read more
2014 Repeated dependent clauses in Yurakaré Information Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences, Gijn, Rik van, Jeremy Hammond, Dejan Matić, Saskia van Putten and Ana Vilacy Galucio (eds.), pp. 291–308 | Article
Yurakaré (isolate, Bolivia) has two constructions, both restricted to narratives, involving repetition of chunks of speech in the form of a dependent clause, marked for switch-reference. In the first construction, tail-head linkage, material from the previous sentence is repeated as a background to… read more
2014 Reduplication in Yurakaré Word Formation in South American Languages, Danielsen, Swintha, Katja Hannss and Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), pp. 143–161 | Article
Yurakaré, an isolate language spoken in central Bolivia, makes extensive use of reduplication to form words. Three different types of morphological reduplication can be distinguished on formal grounds: complete root reduplication, partial prefixed reduplication, and partial suffixed reduplication,… read more
2014 Information structure and reference tracking in complex sentences: An overview Information Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences, Gijn, Rik van, Jeremy Hammond, Dejan Matić, Saskia van Putten and Ana Vilacy Galucio (eds.), pp. 1–42 | Article
This volume is dedicated to exploring the crossroads where complex sentences and information management – more specifically information structure (IS) and reference tracking (RT) – come together. Complex sentences are a highly relevant but understudied domain for studying notions of IS and RT. On… read more
2011 Semantic and grammatical integration in Yurakaré subordination Subordination in Native South American Languages, Gijn, Rik van, Katharina Haude and Pieter Muysken (eds.), pp. 169–192 | Article
Yurakaré (unclassified, central Bolivia) has five subordination strategies (on the basis of a morphosyntactic definition). In this paper I argue that the use of these different strategies is conditioned by the degree of conceptual synthesis of the two events, relating to temporal integration and… read more
2011 Subordination in South America: An overview Subordination in Native South American Languages, Gijn, Rik van, Katharina Haude and Pieter Muysken (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article
2010 Review of Dixon & Aikhenvald (2006): Complementation: a cross-linguistic typology Studies in Language 34:1, pp. 187–194 | Review
2010 Middle voice and ideophones, a diachronic connection: The case of Yurakaré Studies in Language 34:2, pp. 273–297 | Article
Kemmer (1993) argues that middle voice markers almost always arise diachronically through the semantic extension of a reflexive marker to other semantic uses related to reflexive. In this paper I will argue for an alternative diachronic path that has led to the development of the middle marker in… read more
2009 The phonology of mixed languages Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24:1, pp. 91–117 | Article
Mixed languages are said to be the result of a process of intertwining (e.g. Bakker & Muysken 1995, Bakker 1997), a regular process in which the grammar of one language is combined with the lexicon of another. However, the outcome of this process differs from language pair to language pair. As far… read more
2009 Irrealis in Yurakaré and other languages: On the cross-linguistic consistency of an elusive category Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality, Hogeweg, Lotte, Helen de Hoop and Andrej L. Malchukov (eds.), pp. 155–178 | Article
The linguistic category of irrealis does not show stable semantics across languages. This makes it difficult to formulate general statements about this category, and it has led some researchers to reject irrealis as a cross-linguistically valid category. In this paper we look at the semantics of… read more
2004 Number in the Yurakaré noun phrase Linguistics in the Netherlands 2004, Cornips, Leonie and Jenny Doetjes (eds.), pp. 69–79 | Article