Goffe Jensma

List of John Benjamins publications in which Goffe Jensma 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

Jensma, Goffe 2022 Ritual walks, chronotopic moves: A few remarks on Obe Postma’s poetics 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. 169–187 | Chapter

On the basis of a – partially stylometric – analysis of his poetry, this article shows how the work of one of Friesland’s most famous poets, Obe Postma (1868–1963), can best be understood as a series of Bakthinian chronotopes, accounts of simultaneous movements through time and space. Whereas… read more

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