Dr. M.S. (Stef) Spronck
Faculty of Humanities
Capaciteitsgroep Taalbeheersing, Argumentatietheorie en Retorica
Visiting address
- Spuistraat 134
- Room number: 4.29
Postal address
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Postbus 1637
1000 BP Amsterdam
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Publications
2024
- Spronck, S. (2024). Pragmatics and stance. In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (2nd Edition ed.). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0944.pub2
- 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
- Casartelli, D. E., Cruschina, S., Posio, P., & Spronck, S. (2023). Introduction. In The Grammar of Thinking: From Reported Speech to Reported Thought in the Languages of the World (pp. 1-11). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111065830-001
- Casartelli, D. E., Cruschina, S., Posio, P., & Spronck, S. (Eds.) (2023). The grammar of thinking: From reported speech to reported thought in the languages of the world. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111065830
- Spronck, S. (2023). Languages of the Kimberley region. In The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages (pp. 812-824). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824978.003.0069
- Spronck, S. (2023). Valency change and causation. In C. Bowern (Ed.), The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages (pp. 344–359). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824978.003.0030
2022
- Spronck, S. (2022). Quotations and quotatives. In M. L. Greenberg, L. A. Grenoble, S. M. Dickey, R. Genis, M. Łaziński, M. Oslon, A. Peti-Stantić, M. Ueda Fidler, M. Uhlik, B. Wiemer, & N. V. Zorixina-Nilsson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Slavic Language and Linguistics Brill Nijhoff. https://doi.org/10.1163/2589-6229eslocom032182
2021
- Spronck, S., & Casartelli, D. E. (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
- Spronck, S. (2020). Grammar and levels of addressivity: Exploring Ungarinyin engagement. Open Linguistics, 6(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2020-0001
- Spronck, S. (2020). The representation-cohesion-stance hypothesis. In A. Moreno-Núñez, V. DaSilva Sinha, & Z. Tian (Eds.), Signs of Life (pp. 75-109). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/clscc.13.05spr
- Spronck, S., Van linden, A., 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., Van linden, A., Gentens, C., & Sansiñena, M. S. (Eds.) (2020). Functions of Language: Notes from the field on perspective-indexing constructions: Irregular shifts and perspective persistence. Functions of Language, 27(1). https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.27.1
2019
- Gentens, C., Sansiñena Pascual, M. S., Spronck, S., & Van linden, A. (2019). Introduction: Irregular perspective shifts and perspective persistence, discourse-oriented and theoretical approaches. Pragmatics, 29(2), 155-169. https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.18050.gen
- Gentens, C., Sansiñena Pascual, M. S., Spronck, S., & Van linden, A. (Eds.) (2019). Irregular perspective shifts and perspective persistence, discourse-oriented and theoretical approaches. Pragmatics, 29(2), 155-308. https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/24064238/29/2
- Si, A., & Spronck, S. (2019). Solega defenestration: Underspecified perspective shift in an unwritten Dravidian language. Pragmatics, 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 (Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия Лингвистика), 23(3), 603-618. https://doi.org/10.22363/2312-9182-2019-23-3-603-618
- 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), 245-254. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2019-0014
- Spronck, S., & Nikitina, T. (2019). Reported speech forms a dedicated syntactic domain. Linguistic Typology, 23(1), 119-159. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2019-0005
2017
- Spronck, S. (2017). Defenestration: deconstructing the frame-in relation in Ungarinyin. Journal of Pragmatics, 104-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2017.03.016
2016
- Spronck, S. (2016). Evidential fictive interaction (in Ungarinyin and Russian). In E. Pascual, & S. Sandler (Eds.), The Conversation Frame (pp. 255–275). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.55.13spr
2015
- 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
- Spronck, S. (2015). Refracting views: How to construct complex perspective in reported speech and thought in Ungarinyin. STUF: Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung = Language typology and universals, 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), 193–216. https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.29.09spr
2014
- McConvell, P., Saunders, T., & Spronck, S. (2014). Linguistic prehistory of the Australian boab. In L. Gawne, & J. Vaughan (Eds.), Selected Papers from the 44th Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, 2013
2012
- San Roque, L., Gawne, L., Hoenigman, D., Miller, J., Rumsey, A., Spronck, S., Carroll, A., & Evans, N. (2012). Getting the Story Straight: Language Fieldwork Using a Narrative Problem-Solving Task. Language Documentation and Conservation, 6. https://doi.org/http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4504
- Spronck, S. (2012). Minds divided: Speaker attitudes in quotatives. In I. Buchstaller, & I. van Alphen (Eds.), Quotatives (pp. 71-116). John Benjamins.
2019
- 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. (2019). To whom it may concern: Some recent developments in the typology of discourse structuring and discourse reference [book reviews]. Linguistic Typology, 23(3), 573–587. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2019-0026
2025
- Spronck, S. (2025). Taalgrenzen. Vooys.
2012
- Spronck, S. (2012). Wat vertellen taboetalen ons? In Alles wat je altijd al had willen weten over taal. De taalcanon (3rd ed.). Meulenhoff.
Membership / relevant position
- Spronck, S. (2025-). Board member, Anéla (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Toegepaste Taalwetenschap), www.anela.nl.
Others
- Spronck, S. (organiser) (2026). Grote Taaldag 2026, Utrecht. Member of the organising committee (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Spronck, S. (editor) (2025). Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education (BAAHE) Thesis Award 2026 (Event) (peer review of a publication).
2020
- Spronck, S. (2020). Reported speech: A typological questionnaire. TulQuest.
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