Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
M.E. Keizer
dr. M.E. (Evelien) Keizer
Capaciteitsgroep Taalwetenschap Universiteit van Amsterdam


Spuistraat 210
1012 VT Amsterdam
Kamer: 511

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Teaching

Subjects taught in previous years:

  • The structure of English sentences (BA)
  • The phonology of English (BA)
  • Language and Cognition (BA - keuzevak)
  • Language change and the history of English (BA)
  • Taalverwerving IV (BA) 
  • Wetenschapsfilosofie (BA)
  • The English Noun Phrase: structure, communication and cognition (MA)
  • The theory and practice of translation (MA)
  • A Functional Discourse Grammar of English (MA)
  • Fuzzy Grammar (MA)

Subjects taught in course year 2009-2010:

  • The structure of English sentences (BA)
  • The Phonology of English (BA)
  • Language change and the history of English (BA)
  • Wetenschapsfilosofie (BA)
  • Linguistic categorization (BA - Keuzevak)
  • Translation Dutch-English (BA - keuzevak)
  • Functional Discourse Grammar (MA) (Part of the General Linguistics programme)
  • Fuzzy grammar (Tutorial)

Research interests

  • The Noun Phrase in English and Dutch (structure, meaning, use)
  • Reference and predication
  • Apposition in English
  • Prepositions and verb-preposition constructions
  • The lexical-grammatical dichotomy (in FDG)
  • Information structure (Topic/Focus, given/new, active/inactive etc.)
  • The place of the lexicon in FDG
  • Possessive constructions in Germnanic languages
  • Prototypicality in language

Frameworks/approaches:

  • Functional Discourse Grammar
  • Cognitive Linguistics
  • Discourse analysis
  • Corpus-based research 
  • Grammaticalisation

I am editor of Web Papers in Functional Discourse Grammar (WP-FDG) and on the editorial board of the Linguistics in Amsterdam Series.

WP-FDG

Linguistics in Amsterdam series

Recent publications

2009

Keizer, M.E. (2009). Verb-preposition constructions in Functional Discourse Grammar. Lingua 119(8), 1186-1211.

Honselaar, W.J.J. & M.E. Keizer (2009). 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.

Staden M. van & M.E. Keizer (eds) (2009). Interpersonal grammar: a cross-linguistic perspective. Linguistics 47(4), special issue.

Keizer, M.E. (2009). The Interpersonal Level in English. In M. van Staden & M.E. Keizer (eds), Interpersonal grammar: a cross-linguistic perspective. Linguistics 47(4), 845-866.

Keizer, M.E. & M. van Staden (2009). Introduction. In M. van Staden & M.E. Keizer (eds), Interpersonal grammar: a cross-linguistic perspective. Linguistics 47(4), 799-824.

Hengeveld, K. & M.E. Keizer (2009). Non-straightforward communication. In: M.E. Keizer & G. Wanders (eds), Web Papers in Functional Discourse Grammar 82. Special Issue: The London Papers 1, 29-50

Keizer, M.E. & G.Wanders(eds) (2009) Web Papers in Functional Discourse Grammar 82. Special Issue: The London Papers 1.



Interpersonal Grammar: Introduction

Web Papers in Functional Discourse Grammar

2008

Keizer , M.E. (2008). Reference and Ascription in F(D)G: an inventory of problem and some possible solutions. In: Jan Rijkhoff and Daniel García Velasco, eds, The Noun Phrase in F(D)G. Trends in Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 181-220.

Keizer, M.E. (2008). English prepositions in Functional Discourse Grammar. Functions of Language 15(2), 216-256.

Keizer , M.E. (2008). The English Language: General. In: The Year’s Work in English Studies 87. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1-33.

2007

Keizer, M.E. (2007). Possessive constructions in English: the proposal's supporters or the supporters of the proposal? In: Mike Hannay and Gerard Steen (eds), Structural-functional studies in English grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 59-82.

Keizer, M.E. (2007). The English Noun Phrase: the Nature of Linguistic Categorization. Cambridge: CUP.

Keizer, M.E. (2007). The English Language: General. In: The Year’s Work in English Studies 86. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-28.

Keizer, M.E. (2007). The grammatical-lexical distinction in Functional Discourse Grammar. Alfa - Revista de Lingüística 51/2: "Advances in Functional Discourse Grammar", 35-56.

Alfa-Keizer

2006

Keizer, M.E. (2006). The English Language: General. In: The Year’s Work in English Studies 85. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-16.

2005

Keizer, M.E. (2005). The discourse function of close appositions. Neophilologus 89, 447-467.

Hannay, M. and M.E. Keizer. Non-restrictive apposition in an FDG of English. 2005. In: María Á. Gómez-González & J. Lachlan Mackenzie eds, Studies in Functional Discourse Grammar (Linguistic Insights, 26). Berne: Peter Lang, 159-194.

Keizer, M.E. (2005). Close appositions. In: C. de Groot and K. Hengeveld (eds), Morphosyntactic expression in Functional Grammar. Functional Grammar Series 27, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 382-417.

Keizer, M.E. (2005). The English Language: General. In: The Year’s Work in English Studies 84. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Keizer, M.E. (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 Anstey, M. en J.L. Mackenzie (2005). Crucial Readingsin Functional Grammar. Berlin en New York NY: Mouton de Gruyter, 109-136.

Mackenzie J.L. & M.E. Keizer (1990). 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. en J.L. Mackenzie (2005). Crucial Readings in Functional Grammar. Berlin en New York NY: Mouton de Gruyter, 246-274.

2004

Keizer, M.E. (2004). Term structure in FG: a modest proposal. Working Papers in Functional Grammar 78.

Keizer, M.E. (2004). Postnominal PP complements and modifiers: a cognitive distinction. English Language and Linguistics 8/2, 323-350.

Aarts, B., D. Denison, M.E. Keizer & G. Popova (eds) (2004). Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Aarts, B.,D. Denison,M.E.Keizer & G. Popova (2004). Introduction. In: Aarts et al. (eds), Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Keizer, M.E. (2004). The English Language: General. In: The Year’s Work in English Studies 83. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2003

Broekhuis, Hans, Evelien Keizer and Marcel den Dikken (2003). Nouns and Noun Phrases. A Modern Grammar of Dutch, Occasional Papers 4 (2 volumes). Edited by Hans Broekhuis, Evelien Keizer and the NWO Steering Committee. Tilburg: Tilburg University.

Aarts, B., M.E. Keizer, M. Spinillo & S. Wallis (2003). Which or What? A study of interrogative determiners in present-day English. In: Andrew Wilson, Paul Rayson and Anthony McEnery (eds.), Corpus Linguistics by the Lune. (Lodz Studies in Language series). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

Universiteit van Tilburg, Modern Grammar of Dutch

Survey of English Usage

Publications (DARE archive)

Recent presentations

Pre- and post-nominal possessors in English, Dutch and German: an FDG account. Third International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, Institute of English Studies, University of London , 15-17 July 2009.

(With Kees Hengeveld) Non-straightforward ascription. International Conference on Functional Grammar 13, University of Westminster, London, 3-6 September 2008. 

Multiple preposition constructions in FDG.International Conference on Functional Grammar 13, University of Westminster, London, 3-6 September 2008.  

Possessieve constructies in het Engels: the proposal’s supporters vs. the supporters of the proposal. DP-research group, ACLC, University of Amsterdam, 20 May 2008.  

Reference and Ascription in Functional Discourse Grammar. Faculty Seminar, English Department, University of English, 15 May 2008.

Non-straightforward Ascription

Reference and Ascription