Erin Pretorius
List of John Benjamins publications in which Erin Pretorius is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 11. A spanning approach to bilingual representations: Initial explorations Varieties of German in Contact Settings: Studies in honor of William D. Keel, Page, B. Richard and Michael T. Putnam (eds.), pp. 238–274 | Chapter
Generative-oriented research has served as a useful tool in advancing our knowledge of aspects of bilingual acquisition, maintenance, and attrition across the lifespan. These analyses are, however, usually grounded in frameworks that focus on the (monolingual) ‘ideal speaker-hearer’. In this… read more
2021 Afrikaans circumpositions: (Mis-)matches at the syntax-interface Into adpositions: New formal perspectives on the structure of the PP and its variation, Acedo-Matellán, Víctor, Theresa Biberauer, Jaume Mateu and Anna Pineda (eds.), pp. 46–89 | Article
Circumpositions in Afrikaans present several puzzles: (i) they always encode spatial paths, but spatial paths can also be encoded by prepositional phrases; (ii) they can be doubling or non-doubling, and (iii) they exhibit disharmonic word order of the kind that appears to violate the… read more