Postma, dr. G.J. (Gertjan)
Researcher Variation Linguistics
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2019
Postma, G.J. "The competitive tier model: Element subtraction in German and Pomeranian". Glossa. 2019. https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.307
2017
Postma, G.J. "Possessor truncation in kinship terms in Dutch dialects". Taal & Tongval. 2017, 159-194.
Schaffel bremenkamp, Elizana et al. "Zeeuws-Flemish in Brazil: multilingualism and language decay". Gragoatá. 2017, 435-472.
2014
Postma, G.J. "Complex complementizers and the structural relation with weak T. New (morpho)syntactic data from a Pomeranian language island in Brazil". STUF - Language Typology and Universals . 2014, 67(4). 627–663. https://doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2014-0032
2013
Postma, G.J. D. Van Olmen and E. Coussé. "Discussie: “Imperatieven”". Nederlandse Taalkunde. 2013, 18(3). 288-303.
Postma, G.J. "Forumlezingen in imperatieven: lexicale constructies of productieve syntaxis?". Nederlandse Taalkunde. 2013, 18(3). 267-287.
2012
Postma, G.J. "Review Studies in West Frisian Syntax (Germen de Haan)". Us Wurk. Tydskrift foar frisistyk. 2012, 61. 176-180.
2011
Postma, G.J. "Het verval van het pronomen du - dialect geografie en historische syntaxis". Nederlandse Taalkunde. 2011, 16. 56-87.
2010
Postma, G.J. "De Oudsaksische doopbelofte in het licht van de historische syntaxis". Nederlandse Taalkunde. 2010, 15(1). 88-94.
2009
Postma, G.J. and P. van Reenen. "De wisselwerking tussen spontane palatalisatie, umlaut en genus". Taal en tongval. Themanummer. 2009, 18. 109-152.
2007
Postma, G.J. "Spontane palatalisatie en Umlaut [Review of: P.T. van Reenen. In Holland staat een "Huis"]". Taal & Tongval. 2007, 59(2). 305-314.
2006
Postma, G.J. "IV2 in het Middeldrents en de Subjunctief". Taal & Tongval. 2006, 57(1). 126-166.
Postma, G.J. "IV2 in het Middelnederlands, IPI in het Fries en de distributie van subjunctieven". Taal & Tongval. 2006, 58(2). 205-224.
Postma, G.J. "Uitwendige syntaxis van voegwoordvervoeging en werkwoordelijke inversievormen". Taal en tongval. Themanummer. 2006, 19(Het morfologisch landschap van het Nederlands). 135-152.
Postma, G.J. "Van 'groter dan' naar 'groter als' – structurele oorzaken voor het verval van comparatieve voegwoord 'dan'.". Nederlandse Taalkunde. 2006, 11(1). 2-22.
Postma, G.J. "Van 'groter dan' naar 'groter als' Structurele oorzaken voor het verval van het comparatieve voegwoord 'dan'.". Nederlandse Taalkunde. 2006, 11(1). 2-22.
Postma, G.J. and H.J. Bennis. "Variatie in negatie: het gedrag van het negatieve cliticum in het Middeldrents van rond 1400". Taal & Tongval. 2006, 58(1). 148-167.
2005
Postma, G.J. "INFINITIVALE V2 IN HET MIDDELDRENTS EN DE SUBJUNCTIEF". Taal & Tongval. 2005, 57(2). 126-166.
2010
Postma, G.J. et al. "Vlinderverzamelaars en systeembouwers". NRC Handelsblad. 2010.
2008
Postma, G.J. and M. van Oostendorp. "De krant kunnen lezen in Noors, Spaans, of Fries". NRC Next. 2008.
van Oostendorp, M. and G.J. Postma. "Povi legi la gazaton norvege, hispane au frise". Liberaj Folioj. 2008.
2017
Postma, G.J. "Kratzer’s effect in the nominal domain: Fake indexicals in Dutch and German". Reckman, Hilke and Cheng, Lisa Hijzelendoorn, Maarten Rint Sybesma (editors). Crossroads Semantics: Computation, experiment and grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2017, 125-137.
2015
Postma, G.J. "The rise and fall of the passive auxiliary weorðan and strict Verb-Second in the history of English". and Los, Bettelou de Haan, Pieter (editors). Proceedings of the Workshop on V2-Languages: A Festschrift for Ans van Kemenade. Benjamins. 2015.
2013
Postma, G.J. "Clause-typing by [2] – the loss of the 2nd person pronoun du 'you' in Dutch, Frisian and Limburgian dialects". Camacho-Taboada, Victoria (ed.). Information Structure and Agreement. Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 2013, 217-254.
2011
Postma, G.J. "Language Contact and Linguistic Complexity - The Rise of the Reflexive Pronoun zich in a 15th Century Netherlands' Border Dialect.". and Jonas, Dianne Whitman, John (editors). Grammatical Change - Origins, Nature, Outcomes.. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2011, 139-159.
2010
Postma, G.J. "The impact of failed changes". Lucas, C and Watts, S Breitbarth, A Willis, D (editors). Continuity and Change in Grammar. Benjamins. 2010, 269-302.
2009
Bennis, H.J. and G.J. Postma "Johannes Gijsbert Kooij". Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde te Leiden 2007-2008. Leiden. 2009, 101-107.
2006
Postma, G.J. "Toward a Syntactic Theory of Number Neutralisation ? the Dutch pronouns je "you" and ze "them"". and M Hartmann, J. Molnarfi, L. (editors). Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 2006, 181-200.
2018
Postma, G.J. "Loss of laten-support in embedded infinitivals in fifteenth-century Low Saxon". and Martins, Ana Maria Cardoso, Adriana (editors). Word Order Change. Oxford University Press. 2018.
2015
Postma, G.J. "Der Verlust des Infinitivpräfix tau ‚zu‘ im Brasilianischen Pommersch: Akkomodation an das Portugiesische oder Dialektkonvergenz?". Lenz, Alexandra (ed.). German Abroad: Perspektiven der Variationslinguistik, Sprachkontakt- und Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung. 2015.
Postma, G.J. "Modeling Transient States in Language Change". and Truswell, Robert Mattieu, Eric (editors). From Micro-change to Macro-change: Proceedings of DIGS 15. Oxford University Press. 2015.
2015
G.J. Postma (2015). Zero Morphemes: Systematic Catalexis or Historical Apocope?. 11-12-2015.
G.J. Postma (2015). Two infinitives in Frisian and Pomeranian - consequences for formal grammar. 23-10-2015.
G.J. Postma (2015). Numerals in Dutch Paucal Constructions. 03-09-2015.
E. S. M. Ooijevaar, G.J. Postma (2015). Geminate onsets in Dutch interjections: VOT normalisation and the gemination factor. 12-08-2015.
G.J. Postma (2015). Dark Matter in Natural Language - Systematic Catalexis in Brazilian Pomeranian. 31-07-2015.
G.J. Postma (2015). Loss of the diminutive in Brazilian Pomeranian. 27-06-2015.
E. S. M. Ooijevaar, G.J. Postma (2015). Geminate onsets in Dutch interjections - consequences for syntax and phonology. 30-05-2015.
G.J. Postma (2015). Verbos Auxiliares num Dialeto Holandês falado no Brasil. 24-04-2015.
G.J. Postma (2015). Brazilian Zeeuws: A sociolinguistic study on the role of bilingualism in language death. 16-01-2015.
2014
G.J. Postma (2014). DO support and the -ed morpheme in English and Brazilian Pomeranian
. 27-09-2014.
G.J. Postma (2014). A Pomeranian Language Island in Brazil
- Generalized T-to-C and absence of V-to-T in Brazilian Pomeranian. 08-09-2014.
G.J. Postma (2014). Rise and decline of the passive auxiliary weorthan and Verb-Second. 03-09-2014.
G.J. Postma (2014). A Pomeranian Language Island in Brazil
- Complex complementizers and accommodation. 18-08-2014.
G.J. Postma (2014). A Pomeranian Language Island in Brazil
- New syntactic data and some considerations on complex complementizers. 04-07-2014.
G.J. Postma (2014). Syntax and Phonology of Onset Gemination in Dutch interjections Heh? and bah!
. 02-06-2014.
G.J. Postma (2014). Taalcontact en Taaldood
- Dummy hulpwerkwoorden in het Braziliaanse Zeeuws. 22-05-2014.
G.J. Postma (2014). Structural factors in the decline of the passive auxiliary weorthan
. 17-05-2014.
G.J. Postma (2014). Increase in Complexity in Language Contact - V-AGR-T and V-T-AGR structures on the border of two Dutch dialects. 26-04-2014.
G.J. Postma (2014). A Pomeranian Language Island in Brazil
- Generalized T-to-C in Brazilian Pomeranian. 14-04-2014.
G.J. Postma (2014). A Pomeranian Language Island in Brazil
- Generalized T-to-C in Brazilian Pomeranian. 27-02-2014.
G.J. Postma (2014). Where is Ablaut? - The syntax and phonology of apophonic alternations
. 06-02-2014.
2013
G.J. Postma (2013). Brazilian Dutch, language vitality, and dummy auxiliaries. 12-11-2013.
G.J. Postma (2013). A Pomeranian language island in Brazil: New syntactic data and some considerations on complex complementizers.. 11-11-2013.
G.J. Postma (2013). Brazilian Dutch, Language Vitality, and Dummy Auxiliaries. 11-11-2013.
G.J. Postma (2013). Internal Properties of NPIs and FCIs. 21-10-2013.
G.J. Postma (2013). Increase in Complexity in Language Contact - Modeling Transient States. 02-08-2013.
G.J. Postma (2013). Metaphonic blocking in Portuguese. 20-06-2013.
G.J. Postma (2013). Differentiating core and peripheral syntactic data using algebraic methods. 15-05-2013.
G.J. Postma (2013). Constraining Local Dislocation dialect-geographically: V-T-AGR versus V-AGR-T in Dutch dialects. 05-04-2013.
G.J. Postma (2013). Language Contact and Language Death - Dummy Auxiliaries in Brazilian Zeeuws. 22-03-2013.
G.J. Postma (2013). Brazilian Zeeuws, Allochthonous Languages, And Dummy Auxiliaries. 20-03-2013.
G.J. Postma (2013). Participant dissimilation in Frisian and French vocatives. 21-02-2013.
G.J. Postma (2013). Is There Variational Semantics? - GO and COME in Dutch, English and Portuguese. 09-02-2013.
2012
G.J. Postma (2012). Deactivated Recursion - Dutch Forum Particles. 23-11-2012.
G.J. Postma (2012). Clause-typing by [2] - Flavors of main clause subjects in Frisian, Limburgian, Flemish and Dutch. 18-10-2012.
G.J. Postma (2012). When recursion is deactivated in Human Full Language - The case of Dutch imperative particles. 09-10-2012.
G.J. Postma (2012). The syntax of pronoun loss: du 'thou' > jij 'you' in the history of Dutch. 04-10-2012.
G.J. Postma (2012). Dialect Geography of the Diminutive Morpheme - palatalization and gender loss. 08-09-2012.
G.J. Postma (2012). Inclusion relations across dialects: the competition of the clitic preposition te 'to' and the heavy preposition to in North-Eastern Dutch of the 14th century. 05-07-2012.
G.J. Postma (2012). Kratzer's effect in the nominal domain: fake indexicals in Dutch and German. 10-05-2012.
G.J. Postma (2012). Kratzer's effect in the nominal domain: fake indexicals in Dutch and German. 07-05-2012.
G.J. Postma (2012). The decline of 2nd pronoun thou in English dialects and the Northern Subject Rule. 21-04-2012.
G.J. Postma (2012). Verval van het pronomen du in de Nederlandse dialecten. 26-03-2012.
G.J. Postma (2012). The decline of 2nd pronoun thou in English dialects and the Northern Subject Rule
. 04-02-2012.
2011
G.J. Postma (2011). Modifying the Hearer - 2nd person interpretation as quantification. 24-06-2011.
G.J. Postma (2011). Modyfying the Hearer - the left periphery of main clauses in Dutch and Frisian. 07-04-2011.
G.J. Postma (2011). Probing up or down? - what the EPP feature can tell us. 02-03-2011.
G.J. Postma (2011). International Parser and Lemmatizer of Dutch in Retrospect. 09-02-2011.
G.J. Postma (2011). The nature of the left periphery of main clauses in Dutch and Frisian - Pronoun replacement du>jij in the Low Countries. 05-02-2011.
2010
G.J. Postma (2010). Decline of du in Dutch and the nature of the left periphery of main clauses in Dutch and Frisian. 26-11-2010.
G.J. Postma (2010). Modifying the Hearer - The nature of the left periphery of main clauses in Frisian and Dutch. 29-10-2010.
G.J. Postma (2010). The Inclusion Relation between Primate and Human Communication - Obligatory non-displaced reference in imperatives. 03-06-2010.
G.J. Postma (2010). Germanic dental preterit morpheme and do-support. 22-05-2010.
G.J. Postma (2010). Modifying the Hearer - The nature of the left periphery of main clauses in Dutch and Frisian. 15-02-2010.
G.J. Postma (2010). The Inclusion Relation between Primate and Human Communication - Consequences for the Grammar. 19-01-2010.
2009
G.J. Postma (2009). Morphological Catalexis - French adjectives, Dutch irregular plurals, and Frisian infinitives. 23-10-2009.
G.J. Postma (2009). Adversative Fronting in Dutch and the subject gap. 05-10-2009.
G.J. Postma (2009). DO-support in English in the Failed Change Model - The rise of its negative polarity distribution. 14-08-2009.
G.J. Postma (2009). 3 to 2-gender decay in the Northern Netherlands: a dialectological and grammatical reconstruction. 13-08-2009.
G.J. Postma (2009). The Impact of Failed Changes - The rise and fall of English positive affirmative do-support. 23-07-2009.
G.J. Postma (2009). The impact of failed changes and the rise of do-support. 06-06-2009.
G.J. Postma (2009). When Spell-Out is Vocalization - and when it is not. Reflections on the Workspace. 18-05-2009.
G.J. Postma (2009). When Spell-Out is Vocalization - and when it is not. 13-05-2009.
G.J. Postma (2009). When Spell-Out is Vocalization and when it is not - Reflections on the Workspace. 18-04-2009.
G.J. Postma (2009). Clisis of pronouns and prepositions - Syntactic and phonological properties of the preposition te 14th century Dutch. 07-02-2009.
2008
G.J. Postma (2008). Fonologische en morfologische correlaties met de umlautsisolosse - in Oost-Friesland en Overijssel. 10-12-2008.
G.J. Postma (2008). Antisymmetry as the source of Umlaut. 12-06-2008.
G.J. Postma (2008). Where phonetic drift and morpho-phonological structure meet: diffusion of palatallized [u]>[y] in eastern Dutch dialects. 05-06-2008.
G.J. Postma (2008). The impact of Failed Changes - The rise and fall of Early Modern Dutch 'sick' and its algebraic relation to the success of 'sich'. 19-03-2008.
G.J. Postma (2008). When grammatical and socio-linguistic factors compete - transmission and diffusion of palatlized [u]>[y] in eastern Dutch dialects. 18-01-2008.
G.J. Postma (2008). The influence of the North-Eastern Saxonic varieties on Dutch and Frisian. 11-01-2008.
2007
G.J. Postma (2007). Expansion vs Umlaut - huus and moes in Salland.. 23-11-2007.
G.J. Postma (2007). Failed Changes - The rise and fall of Early Modern Dutch sick and its algebraic relation to the success of sich.. 01-11-2007.
G.J. Postma (2007). Early Decline of the Negative clitic "ne" in the Middle Dutch dialects in Frisian and Saxon areas.. 08-08-2007.
G.J. Postma (2007). The decline of the negative clitic in a 15-century juridical corpus from Drenthe - data, theory and some consequences for Romance. 19-04-2007.
G.J. Postma (2007). Negatie in Taalcontact - het verval van de dubbele negatie in een 15de eeuws juridisch corpus. 02-03-2007.
2006
G.J. Postma (2006). The Decline of the Negative clitic 'ne' in Old Frisian and in the Middle Dutch of Frisia, Drenthe, and Holland. 27-12-2006.
G.J. Postma (2006). Restricted Linguistic Systems as a Sub-system of Full Language: Non-detached Imperatives. 07-11-2006.
G.J. Postma (2006). Negatie in Taalcontact - het verval van de dubbele negatie in een 15de eeuws juridisch corpus. 18-10-2006.
G.J. Postma (2006). Syntactic Principles of Non-Pronunciation - Why 'big PRO' is zero. 04-02-2006.
2005
G.J. Postma (2005). Antisymmetry in Phonosyntax - Two types of affixes and their linearization, 19-20 Dec 2005 Amsterdam. 20-12-2005.
G.J. Postma (2005). Grammaticalization as a unitary process: the case of the reinforced negation.. 10-11-2005.
G.J. Postma (2005). Naamkunde op de fonologie-syntaxis interface. 13-09-2005.
G.J. Postma (2005). Loss of asymmetric V2 in the history of English and the structure of the pronominal paradigm. 02-08-2005.
G.J. Postma (2005). The rise of the reflexive pronoun 'zich' in a Netherlands' border dialect in the 15th century. 24-06-2005.
G.J. Postma (2005). Anthropological Taboo, Grammatical Mismatches and Variational Linguistics, 22 -25 June 2005, Amsterdam.. 23-06-2005.
G.J. Postma (2005). Toward a Syntactic Theory of Number Neutralisation ? the Dutch pronouns je "you", ze "them".. 09-06-2005.
G.J. Postma (2005). Causative complementizers, D-to-C and I-to-C. Teun Hoekstra Symposium, June 5th 2005, Leiden University (with Johan). 05-06-2005.
G.J. Postma (2005). Tegengestelde bewegingen in taal. 10-03-2005.
G.J. Postma (2005). The object pronoun ze in Dutch. Distribution and binding properties.. 29-01-2005.
2011
G.J. Postma (2011). INPOLDER under Word Level - Parsing Morphological Structure. 27-05-2011.