Willem Visser

List of John Benjamins publications in which Willem Visser is involved.

Titles

From West to North Frisia: A Journey along the North Sea Coast. Frisian studies in honour of Jarich Hoekstra

Edited by Alastair Walker, Eric Hoekstra, Goffe Jensma, Wendy Vanselow, Willem Visser and Christoph Winter

This volume contains 25 articles covering a wide array of subjects, reflecting the breadth of scholarship of one of today’s leading experts in the field of Frisian Studies. The articles, written mostly in English and German, encompass a temporal range from Old Frisian to Modern Frisian and a… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 33] 2022. xxv, 476 pp. | open access

Studies in West Frisian Grammar

Selected papers by Germen J. de Haan

In this volume, Germen de Haan gives a multi-faceted view of the syntax, sociolinguistics, and phonology of West-Frisian. The author discusses distinct aspects of the syntax of verbs in Frisian: finiteness and Verb Second, embedded root phenomena, the verbal complex, verbal complementation, and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 161] 2010. x, 384 pp.

Articles

Visser, Willem 2022 The closed vowels in West Frisian revisited: On the mismatch between phonetic duration and phonological length From West to North Frisia: A Journey along the North Sea Coast, Walker, Alastair, Eric Hoekstra, Goffe Jensma, Wendy Vanselow, Willem Visser and Christoph Winter (eds.), pp. 418–431 | Chapter

In most of the literature on West Frisian, it is assumed that this language has a symmetrical vowel system, consisting of nine short and nine corresponding long vowels. These vowels all occur in minimal pairs, meaning that this distinction has phonemic value. This traditional view was challenged… read more

Hoekstra, Jarich, Goffe Jensma and Willem Visser 2010 Introduction Studies in West Frisian Grammar, Haan, Germen J. de, pp. 1–10 | Article