Dr. Stef Spronck
Lecturer
Because my research is not affiliated with Utrecht University, the most complete list of my publications can be found on my research profile at the University of Helsinki:
Publications
2024
Scholarly publications
Spronck, S., & Si, A. (2024). The Trees Above: A Language-Based Analysis of Tree Agency in Two Indigenous Societies. Journal of Ethnobiology, 44(4), 415-425. https://doi.org/10.1177/02780771241278088
2023
Scholarly publications
Spronck, S. (2023). Languages of the Kimberley region. In The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages (pp. 812-824) https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824978.003.0069
Spronck, S. (2023). Valency change and causation. In The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages (pp. 344-359) https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824978.003.0030
Casartelli, D., Cruschina, S., Posio, P., & Spronck, S. (2023). Introduction: The grammar of thinking. In The grammar of thinking: From Reported Speech to Reported Thought in the Languages of the World https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111065830-001
Casartelli, D., Cruschina, S., Posio, P., & Spronck, S. (Eds.) (2023). The grammar of thinking: From reported speech to reported thought in the languages of the world. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs (TiLSM)). https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111065830
2022
Scholarly publications
Gentens, C., Sansiñena, M. S., Spronck, S., & linden, A. V. (2022). Irregular perspective shifts and perspective persistence, discourse-oriented and theoretical approaches. Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), 29(2), 155-169. https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.18050.gen
Spronck, S. (2022). Quotations and quotatives. In Encyclopedia of Slavic Language and Linguistics Online Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/2589-6229_eslo_com_032182
2021
Scholarly publications
Spronck, S., & Casartelli, D. (2021). In a manner of speaking: how reported speech may have shaped grammar. Frontiers in Communication, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.624486
2020
Scholarly publications
Spronck, S., linden, A. V., Gentens, C., & Sansiñena, M. S. (2020). Perspective persistence and irregular perspective shift: Mismatches in form-function pairings. Functions of Language, 27(1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.20005.spr
Spronck, S. (2020). Reported speech: A typological questionnaire.
Spronck, S., linden, A. V., Gentens, C., & Sansiñena, M. S. (Eds.) (2020). Functions of Language: Notes from the field on perspective-indexing constructions: Irregular shifts and perspective persistence. (Functions in Language ). https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.27.1
Spronck, S. (2020). The representation-cohesion-stance hypothesis. In V. da Silva Sinha , A. Moreno-Núñez, & Z. Tian (Eds.), Language, Culture and Identity – Signs of Life (pp. 75–110). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/clscc.13.05spr
Spronck, S. (2020). Grammar and levels of addressivity: Exploring Ungarinyin engagement. Open Linguistics, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2020-0001
2019
Scholarly publications
Spronck, S., & Nikitina, T. (2019). M and R as elements of a syntactic unit: Where would the relation between M and R come from, if not from syntax? Linguistic Typology, 23(1). https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2019-0014
Gentens, C., Pascual, M. S. S., Spronck, S., & linden, A. V. (Eds.) (2019). Pragmatics: Irregular perspective shifts and perspective persistence, discourse-oriented and theoretical approaches. (Pragmatics).
Spronck, S. (2019). Dor, Daniel: The Instruction of Imagination: Language as a Social Communication Technology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015 [Book review]. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 39(1), 132-136. https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2016.1255121
Spronck, S., & Nikitina, T. (2019). Reported speech forms a dedicated syntactic domain. Linguistic Typology, 23(1). https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2019-0005
Si, A., & Spronck, S. (2019). Solega defenestration: Underspecified perspective shift in an unwritten Dravidian language. Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), 29(2), 277- 301. https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.18048.si
Spronck, S. (2019). Speaking for Bakhtin: Two Interpretations of Reported Speech. A Response to Goddard and Wierzbicka (2018). Russian Journal of Linguistics, 23(3), 603-618. https://doi.org/10.22363/2312-9182-2019-23-3-603-618
Spronck, S. (2019). To whom it may concern: Some recent developments in the typology of discourse structuring and discourse reference [book reviews]. Linguistic Typology, 23(3). https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2019-0026
2017
Scholarly publications
Spronck, M. S. (2017). Defenestration: deconstructing the frame-in relation in Ungarinyin. Journal of Pragmatics , 114, 104-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2017.03.016
2016
Scholarly publications
Spronck, S. (2016). Evidential fictive interaction (in Ungarinyin and Russian). In The Conversation Frame https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.55.13spr
2015
Scholarly publications
Spronck, M. S. (2015). Reported speech in Ungarinyin: grammar and social cognition in a language of the Kimberley region, Western Australia. [Doctoral thesis 3 (Research UU / Graduation NOT UU), Australian National University]. The Australian National University.
Spronck, S. (2015). Refracting views: How to construct complex perspective in reported speech and thought in Ungarinyin. STUF - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, 68(2). https://doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2015-0009
Spronck, S. (2015). Stance as participant structure: A Jakobsonian approach to the pragmatics and semantics of evidentiality. Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 29(1). https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.29.09spr
Rangan, H., Bell, K. L., Baum, D. A., Fowler, R., McConvell, P., Saunders, T., Spronck, S., Kull, C. A., & Murphy, D. J. (2015). New genetic and linguistic analyses show ancient human influence on baobab evolution and distribution in Australia. PLoS One, 10(4). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119758
2014
Scholarly publications
Spronck, M. S. (2014). Linguistic prehistory of the Australian boab. In Selected Papers from the 44th Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, 2013
2012
Scholarly publications
Spronck, M. S. (2012). Getting the story straight: Language fieldwork using a narrative problem-solving task. Language Documentation & Conservation.
Spronck, M. S. (2012). Wat vertellen taboetalen ons? In De taalcanon: Alles wat je wilt weten over taal
Spronck, M. S. (2012). Minds divided, speaker attitudes in quotatives. In Quotatives: Cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary perspectives
2009
Scholarly publications
Spronck, M. S. (2009). How different is reportativity from reported speech? In Proceedings der 39. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (STuTS) in Bern
2006
Scholarly publications
Spronck, M. S. (2006). The Bakhtin circle and current issues in linguistic theory. In Proceedings of the XIIth International Bakhtin Conference, University of Jyväskylä