Evelien Keizer - Full list of publications

Authored books

Reference, predication and (in)definiteness in Functional Grammar

The English Noun Phrase

Syntax of Dutch

A Functional Discourse Grammar for English

  • 1992. Reference, predication and (in)definiteness in Functional Grammar. A functional approach to English copular sentences. Doctoral dissertation, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
  • 2007. The English Noun Phrase: the Nature of Linguistic Categorization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • 2012. (with H. Broekhuis) Syntax of Dutch: Nouns and Noun Phrases, Volume 1. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
  • 2015. A Functional Discourse Grammar for English. Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Edited books / Special issues

  • 2004. (with B. Aarts, D. Denison & G. Popova) Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • 2009. (with G. Wanders) Web Papers in Functional Discourse Grammar 82. The London Papers 1 (Special Issue)
  • 2009. (with M. van Staden) Interpersonal grammar: a cross-linguistic perspective. Linguistics 47(4) (Special Issue)
  • 2010. (with G. Wanders) Web Papers in Functional Discourse Grammar 83. The London Papers 2 (Special Issue)
  • 2012. (with R. Genis, E. de Haard, J. Kalsbeek & J. Stelleman) Between West and East. Festschrift for Wim Honselaar. Pegasus Oost-Europese Studies 20. Amsterdam: Pegasus.
  • 2014. (with N. Alturo and L. Payrato). The Role of Context in Functional Discourse Grammar. Pragmatics 24(2). (Special Issue)
  • 2016. (with I. Genee) The Lexicon in Functional Discourse Grammar. Linguistics 54(5) (Special Issue).
  • 2016. (with G. Kaltenböck and A. Lohmann) Outside the Clause (Studies in Language Companion Series 178). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • 2018. (with H. Olbertz) Recent developments in Functional Discourse Grammar. Studies in Language Companion Series 205. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.205.
  • 2022. (with L. Sommerer). English Noun Phrases from a functional-cognitive perspective: current issues. Studies in Language Companion Series 221. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.221.
  • 2022. (with T. Schwaiger & E. Ten Wolde). Modification in Functional Discourse Grammar. Open Linguistics 8(1). (Special Issue)
  • 2023. (with M. Klumm & Anita Fetzer). Continuative and contrastive relations across discourse domains. Functions of Language 30(1). (Special Issue)

Articles

peer-reviewed articles: 
  • 1991. (with J.L. Mackenzie) On assigning pragmatic functions in FG, Pragmatics 1/2, 169-215. Also appeared in Working Papers in Functional Grammar 38 and reprinted in Anstey, M. & J.L. Mackenzie (2005). Crucial Readings in Functional Grammar. Berlin & New York NY: Mouton de Gruyter, 246-274.
  • 1993. (with M. Hannay) Translation and contrastive grammar: the grammatical vs the communicative strategy. Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen 45, 65-88.
  • 2004. Postnominal PP complements and modifiers: a cognitive distinction. English Language and Linguistics 8(2), 323-350.
  • 2005. The discourse function of close appositions. Neophilologus 89, 447-467.
  • 2007. The Lexical-Grammatical Dichotomy in Functional Discourse Grammar. Alfa - Revista de Lingüística 51(2) (Special Issue: Advances in Functional Discourse Grammar), 35-56.
  • 2008. English prepositions in Functional Discourse Grammar. Functions of Language 15(2), 216-256.
  • 2009. Verb-preposition constructions in FDG. Lingua 119(8), 1186-1211.
  • 2009. The interpersonal level in English: reported speech. Linguistics 47(4) (Special Issue: Interpersonal grammar: a cross-linguistic perspective), 845-866.
  • 2009. (with W. Honselaar) Lexicon and frames in FDG: A treatment of Dutch bekend zijn ‘to be familiar, well known’, behandelen ‘to treat’ and trouwen ‘to marry’. Lingua 119(8), 1212-1241.
  • 2009. (with W. Honselaar) A Functional Discourse Grammar account of set nouns in Dutch and its implications for lexicography. International Journal of Lexicography 22(4), 361-397.
  • 2009. (with M. van Staden) Introduction. Linguistics 47/4, 799-824.
  • 2011. (with K. Hengeveld) Non-straightforward communication. Journal of Pragmatics 43, 1962-1976.
  • 2011. English proforms: an alternative account. English Language and Linguistics 15(2), 303-334.
  • 2012. English Proforms in Functional Discourse Grammar. In: Velasco, Daniel García & Gerry Wanders (eds), The Morphosyntactic Level in Functional Discourse Grammar. Language Sciences 34(4) (Special Issue), 400-420.
  • 2013. (with W. Honselaar) Informal leave-taking wishes in Dutch: A Functional Discourse Grammar account. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 67, 59-77.
  • 2014. Context, cognition and grammar: the active-passive alternation in functional discourse grammar. In: Letícia Marcondes Rezende, Odair Luiz Nadin, Marina Célia Mendonça, Claudia Zavaglia and Anna Flora Brunelli (eds), A interdisciplinaridade e a especificidade linguística: teorias e práticas. Trilhas Linguísticas 26. São Paulo SP: Cultura Acadêmica, 49-73.
  • 2014. (with N.Alturo & Lluís Payrato) The Interaction between Context and Grammar in Functional Discourse Grammar: Introduction. In: Alturo, Núria, Evelien Keizer & Lluís Payrato (eds), The role of context in Functional Discourse Grammar. Pragmatics 24(2) (Special Issue), 185-201.
  • 2014. Context and cognition in Functional Discourse Grammar: what, here and why? In: Alturo, Núria, Evelien Keizer & Lluís Payrato (eds), The role of context in Functional Discourse Grammar. Pragmatics 24(2) (Special Issue), 399-423.
  • 2016. We teachers, you fools: Pro + N(P) constructions in Functional Discourse Grammar. Language Sciences 53 (Special Issue on Binominal Syntagms), 177-192.
  • 2016. (with E. ten Wolde) Structure and substance in functional discourse grammar: the case of the binominal noun phrase. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 48(1): 134-157. DOI: 10.1080/03740463.2016.1176371
  • 2016. Idiomatic expressions in Functional Discourse Grammar. In: Genee Inge & M.E. Keizer, The Lexicon in Functional Discourse Grammar. Linguistics 54(5) (Special Issue), 981-1016. DOI: 10.1515/ling-2016-0022
  • 2016. (with I. Genee & D. García Velasco) The lexicon in Functional Discourse Grammar: Theory, typology, description. In: Genee, Inge & M.E. Keizer. The Lexicon in Functional Discourse Grammar. Linguistics 54(5) (Special Issue), 877-906. DOI: 10.1515/ling-2016-0019
  • 2017. English partitives in Functional Discourse Grammar: types and constraints. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2(1), 16. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.11
  • 2018. Derivation in FDG: challenges and implications. Word Structure 11 (1): 36–66. DOI: 10.3366/word.2018.0115.
  • 2018. Modal modifiers in FDG: Putting the Theory to the Test. Open Linguistics 4: 356-390. DOI: 10.1515/opli-2018-0019
  • 2018. Idiomatic expressions and anaphoric reference in Functional Discourse Grammar. Quaderns de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics XXIII: 177- 195. DOI: 10.7203/qf.23.13527 
  • 2019. The problem of non-truth-conditional, lower-level modifiers: a Functional Discourse Grammar solution. Online publication in English Language and Linguistics 2019. DOI: 10.1017/S136067431900011X
  • 2020. Modelling stance adverbs in grammatical theory: tackling heterogeneity with Functional Discourse Grammar. Language Sciences. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2020.101273
  • 2020. The placement of extra-clausal constituents in Functional Discourse Grammar. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 80: 89-121.
  • 2020. (with R. Giomi) Extra-clausal constituents in Functional Discourse Grammar: function and form. Revista da Abralin 19(3): 159-185. DOI: 10.25189/rabralin.v19i3.1717.
  • 2022. (with E. Ten Wolde & T. Schwaiger). Modification in Functional Discourse Grammar: State of the art and issues addressed. Open Linguistics 8(1): 512-523. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0216.
  • 2022. Modifier-numeral word order in the English NP: an FDG analysis. Open Linguistics 8(1): 545-572. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0207.
  • 2022. (with G. Kaltenböck). Insubordinate if-clauses in FDG: degrees of independence. Open Linguistics 8(1): 675-698. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0212.
  • 2023. (with M. Klumm & A. Fetzer). Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains: Cognitive and cross-linguistic approaches. Functions of Language 30(1): 4-15.
 
 
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Book chapters

  • 1990. Referentiality and the Representation of Predicate Nominals. In: M. Hannay & E. Vester (eds), Working with Functional Grammar: Descriptive and Computational Applications, Dordrecht: Foris, 145-166.
  • 1992. Predicates as referring expressions. In: M. Fortescue, P. Harder and L. Kristophersen (eds), Layered structure and reference in a functional perspective, Amsterdam: Benjamins. Reprinted in M. Anstey, & J.L. Mackenzie (eds) (2005). Crucial Readings in Functional Grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 109-136.
  • 1995. Referring in Functional Grammar: properties and relations as zero-order entities. In: R. Geiger (ed), Reference in multidisciplinary perspective, Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 257-276.
  • 2003. (with B. Aarts, M. Spinillo & S. Wallis) Which or What? A study of interrogative determiners in present-day English. In: A. Wilson, P. Rayson & A. McEnery (eds), Corpus Linguistics by the Lune (Lodz Studies in Language series). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 9-22.
  • 2004. (with B. Aarts, D. Denison & G. Popova) Introduction. In: B. Aarts, D. Denison, M.E. Keizer & G. Popova (eds), Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-28.
  • 2004. (with M. Hannay) A discourse-based classification of English non-restrictive nominal appositions. In: H. Aertsen, M. Hannay & R. Lyall (eds), Words in their Places. A Festschrift for J. Lachlan Mackenzie. Faculty of Arts, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 257-272.
  • 2005. (with M. Hannay) A discourse treatment of English non-restrictive nominal appositions in Functional Discourse Grammar. In: M.Á. Gómez-González & J.L. Mackenzie (eds), Studies in Functional Discourse Grammar (Linguistic Insights, 26). Berne: Peter Lang, 159-194.
  • 2005. Close appositions. In: C. de Groot & K. Hengeveld (eds), Morphosyntactic expression in Functional Grammar. Functional Grammar Series 27, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 382-417.
  • 2005. What to do with Those fools of a crew? In: H. Broekhuis, N. Corver, R. Huybregts, J. Koster & U. Kleinhenz (eds), Organizing Grammar: Linguistic Studies in Honor of Henk van Riemsdijk. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 300-309.
  • 2007. Prenominal possessives in English: function and use. In: M. Hannay & G. Steen (eds), Structural-functional studies in English grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 59-82.
  • 2008. Reference and Ascription in F(D)G: An inventory of problems and some possible solutions. In: J. Rijkhoff & D. García Velasco (eds), The Noun Phrase in F(D)G. Trends in Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 181-220.
  • 2011. (with W. Honselaar) Lexical stratification? In: H. Geerdink-Verkoren & A. Van Engelenhoven, Searching the invariant. Semiotactic explorations in meaning. LINCOM Studies in Semantics. München: LINCOM Europa, 73-85.
  • 2013. The X is (is) construction: an FDG account. In: J. Lachlan Mackenzie & Hella Olbertz (eds), Casebook in Functional Discourse Grammar, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 213-248.
  • 2014. (with W. Honselaar) De semantische categorie Tijd in Functional Discourse Grammar: syntaxis en semantiek van voorzetselloze temporele uitdrukkingen in het Nederlands. In: Freek Van de Velde, Hans Smessaert, Frank Van Eynde & Sara Verbrugge (eds), Patroon and argument. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 143-161.
  • 2014. (with D. García-Velasco) Derivational Morphology in Functional Discourse Grammar. In: María de los Ángeles Gómez González, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez & Francisco Gonzálvez-García (eds.), Theory and practice in functional-cognitive space. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 151-177.
  • 2016. (Morpho-)syntactic transparency and ELF. In: Marie-Luise Pitzl & Ruth Osimk-Teasdale (eds.), English as a Lingua Franca: Perspectives and Prospects. Contributions in Honour of Barbara Seidlhofer (Trends in Applied Linguistics 24), Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 147-159.
  • 2016. (with G. Kaltenböck & A. Lohmann) Extra-clausal constituents: an overview. In: Kaltenböck, Gunther, Evelien Keizer & Arne Lohmann (eds.), Outside the Clause (Studies in Language Companion Series 178). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1-26.
  • 2016. The (the) fact is (that) construction in English and Dutch. In: Kaltenböck, Gunther, Evelien Keizer & Arne Lohmann (eds.), Outside the Clause (Studies in Language Companion Series 178). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 59-95.
  • 2016. On the use of prepositions in English free relatives: an FDG account. In: Anne Bannink & Wim Honselaar (eds.), From variation to iconicity. Festschrift for Olga Fischer. Amsterdam: Pegasus. 203-220.
  • 2018. Interpersonal adverbs in FDG: the case of frankly. In: Keizer, Evelien & Hella Olbertz (eds), Recent developments in Functional Discourse Grammar. Studies in Language Companion Series 205. 48-88. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.  doi.org/10.1075/slcs.205.
  • 2018. (with H. Olbertz) Functional Discourse Grammar: a brief outline. In: Keizer, Evelien & Hella Olbertz (eds), Recent developments in Functional Discourse Grammar. Studies in Language Companion Series 205. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2-15. doi.org/10.1075/slcs.205.
  • 2018. Pragmatic function assignment and grammatical expression in FDG. In: Mohammed Jadir (ed.), Linguistique et discours: description, typologie et théorisation. Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien: Peter Lang. 59-84. https://doi.org/10.3726/b14503
  • 2020. Noun Phrases. In: Bas Aarts, Jill Bowie & Gergana Popova (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of English Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 335-357.
  • 2020. The semantics, syntax and prosody of adverbs in English: An FDG perspective. In: Haselow, Alexander & Gunther Kaltenböck (eds), Grammar and Cognition: Dualistic Models of Language Structure and Language Processing. Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 191-231.
  • 2021. Inter-level mismatches in English coordinated partitives. In: Lucia Contreras-García & Daniel García Velasco (eds), Interfaces in Functional Discourse Grammar: Theory and applications. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 354. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110711592-010
  • 2022. Premodification in the X-is construction: fact and point. In: Lotte Sommerer & Evelien Keizer (eds.), English Noun Phrases from a functional-cognitive perspective: current issues. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 235-275.
  • 2022. (with L. Sommerer). Major trends in research on the English NP. In: Lotte Sommerer & Evelien Keizer (eds.), English Noun Phrases from a functional-cognitive perspective: current issues. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1-23.
  • 2023. Enation and agnation in multi-level models: the case for Functional Discourse Grammar. In: Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière, William McGregor & An Van linden (eds.), Reconnecting form and meaning: Lexis and grammar from cognitive-functional and usage-based perspectives [SLCS 230]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 267-298. DOI: doi.org/10.1075/slcs.230.10kei
  • 2023. The function and use of NP-external sort/kind of: The case of sort/kind of DEF NP. In: Wiltrud Mihatsch, Inga Hennecke, Anna Kisiel, Alena Kolyaseva, Kristin Davidse and Lieselotte Brems (eds.), Type Noun Constructions in Slavic, Germanic and Romance Languages. Semantics and pragmatics on the move (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 352). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 181-209.
  • 2023. Word Classes and Gradience. In Eva van Lier (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.178-195.
  • 2024. (with E. ten Wolde). Of Birds of Prey and Men of Honour: Head-Classifier Constructions in English. In L. Gardelle, E. Mignot & J. Neveux (eds.), Nouns and the Morphosyntax/Semantics Interface. London: Palgrave MacMillan. 181-208.

Book reviews

  • 1990. A typology of copular sentences: review of Declerck (1988), Linguistics 28/5, 1047-1060.
  • 1991. A typology of copular sentences: response to Declerck (1991), Linguistics 29/3, 537-542.
  • 2002. Review of Inge de Mönnick, On the Move: the mobility of constituents in the English noun phrase: a multi-method approach. English Language and Linguistics 6/1, 210-216.
  • 2004. The English Language: General. In: The Year’s Work in English Studies 83. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • 2005. The English Language: General. In: The Year’s Work in English Studies 84. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-19
  • 2006. The English Language: General. In: The Year’s Work in English Studies 85. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-16.
  • 2007. The English Language: General. In: The Year’s Work in English Studies 86. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-28.
  • 2008. The English Language: General. In: The Year’s Work in English Studies 87. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-33.
  • 2011. Review of Essays on Nominal Determination (2008), edited by Henrik Høeg Müller and Alex Klinge. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Functions of Language 18/2, 261-274.

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