UC Research Profile

Professor Kon Kuiper

School of Languages Cultures and Linguistics; Linguistics
kon.kuiper@canterbury.ac.nz
 Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext. 6040
 Office: English 204

Fields of Research

  • Lexis
  • Oral formulaic speech
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Speech of auctioneers
  • Speech of sports commentators
  • The phrasal lexicon
  • Word formation

Researcher Summary

Professor Kon Kuiper has research interests in syntax and lexis, including compounding, the structural properties of idioms, and the theory of oral formulaic speech. He has published on generative theory of the lexicon, word formation, literary theory, and oral formulaic theory.

Subject Area: Disciplines

Research Groups

Future Research

  • Analysis of the formal properties of phrasal lexical items
  • Description of restricted occupational varieties of English

Key Methodologies

  • Ethnography
  • Linguistic analysis

Affiliations

Publications

  • Kuiper, K. (2009) Formulaic genres. (1st) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (Authored Book)
  • Kuiper, K. (2008) Bounty. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press. (Authored Book)
  • Kuiper, K. and Allan, W.S. (2004) An Introduction to English Language: Word, Sound and Sentence. Basingstoke: Macmillan. (Authored Book)
  • Kuiper, K., McCann, H., Quinn, H., Aitchison, T. and van der Veer, K. (2003) SAID: A syntactically annotated idiom database. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania. (Authored Book)
  • Kuiper, K. (1999) Timepieces. Christchurch: Hazard Press. (Authored Book)
  • Kuiper, K., Columbus, G. and Schmitt, N. (2009) Acquiring phrasal vocabulary. In Foster-Cohen, Susan (Ed.), Advances in language acquisition. (1st) (216-240). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (Chapter in Book)
  • Kuiper, K. (2009) Pedagogical change and its evaluation: research on practice. In Hellstén, Meeri and Anna Reid (Ed.), Researching international pedagogies: sustainable practice for teaching and learning in higher education. (163-177). Berlin: Springer. (Chapter in Book)
  • Kuiper, K. (2007) Cathy Wilcox meets the phrasal lexicon: Creative deformation of phrasal lexical items for humorous effect. In J. Munat (Ed.), Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts. (93-112). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (Chapter in Book)
  • Kuiper, K. (2007) Sporting Formulae in New Zealand English: Two Models of Male Solidarity. In L. Monaghan and J. Goodman (Ed.), A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication: Essential Readings. (285-293). Oxford: Blackwell. (Chapter in Book)
  • Kuiper, K. (2007) Syntactic aspects of phraseology II: Generative approaches. In H. Burger, D. Dobrovol'skij, P. Kühn, and N. R. Norrick (Ed.), Phraseology: An International Handbook of Contemporary Research Vol 1. (53-63). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. (Chapter in Book)
  • Kuiper, K. (2006) Formulaic Speech. In K. Brown (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. (2nd) (597-602). Oxford: Elsevier. (Chapter in Book)
  • Kuiper, K. (2006) Slipping on superlemmas. In A. Hacki Buhofer and H. Burger (Ed.), Phraseology in Motion 1. (371-379). Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag. (Chapter in Book)
  • Kuiper, K. and Newsome, G. (2006) Subverting the Self: Standard and Non-Standard Phraseology in 'African' Fraud Letters. In L. Jinhua, K. Henshall and X. Hong (Ed.), Ethnic Identities and Linguistic Expressions: Languages, Literatures and Cultural Interaction in an Age of Globalization. (524-541). Beijing: People's Literary Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Kuiper, K. (2005) Invisible Immigrants, Inaudible Language: Nederlands en Nederlanders in Nieuw Zeeland. In A. Bell, R. Harlow and D. Starks (Ed.), Languages of New Zealand. (322-342). Wellington: Victoria University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Kuiper, K. and Lodge, M. (2004) Formulae of command: Form and function in controlling the body. In C. Földes (Ed.), Res Humanae Proverbiorum et Sententiarum: ad Honorem Wolgangi Mieder. (141-153). Tübingen: Gunther Narr. (Chapter in Book)
  • Kuiper, K. (2004) Formulaic performance in conventionalised varieties of speech. In N. Schmitt (Ed.), Formulaic Sequences: Acquisition, Processing and Use. (37-54). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (Chapter in Book)
  • Kuiper, K. (2004) Phraseologie aus der Sicht der generativen Grammatik. In K. Steyer (Ed.), Wortverbindungen - mehr oder weniger. (222-237). Berlin: De Gruyter. (Chapter in Book)
  • Kuiper, K. and Everaert, M. (2003) Limits on the phrase structural configurations of phrasal lexemes. In Palm-Meister, C. (Ed.), EUROPHRAS 2000: Internationale Tagung zur Phraseologie vom 15.-18. Juni 2000 in Aske/Schweden. (257-262). Tübingen: Stauffenburg. (Chapter in Book)
  • Starosta, S., Kuiper, K., Ng, S.A. and Wu, Z.Q. (2003) On defining the Chinese compound word: Headedness in Chinese compounding and Chinese VR compounds. In R. Singh and S. Starosta (Ed.), Explorations in Seamless Morphology. (90-115). New Delhi: Sage. (Chapter in Book)
  • Hickey, F. and Kuiper, K. (2000) 'A Deep Depression Covers the South Tasman Sea': New Zealand Meteorological Office Weather Forecasts. In A. Bell and Kuiper, K. (Ed.), New Zealand English. (279-296). Wellington: Victoria University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Kuiper, K. and Everaert, M. (2000) Constraints on the phrase structural properties of English phrasal lexical items. In B. Roswadowska (Ed.), PASE Papers in Language Studies. (1) (152-170). Wroclaw: Aksel s.c. (Chapter in Book)
  • Kuiper, K. and Bell, A. (2000) New Zealand and New Zealand English. In A. Bell and K. Kuiper (Ed.), New Zealand English. (11-22). Wellington: Victoria University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Kuiper, K. and Flindall, M. (2000) Social rituals, formulaic speech and small talk at the supermarket checkout. In J. Coupland (Ed.), Small Talk. (183-207). London: Longman. (Chapter in Book)
  • Kuiper, K. (1998) New Zealand sporting formulae: two models of male socialisation. In J. Coates (Ed.), Language and Gender: A Reader. (1) (285-93). Oxford: Basil Blackwell. (Chapter in Book)
  • Starosta, S., Kuiper, K. and Ng Siew Ai, Wu Zhi-qian. (1998) On defining the Chinese compound word: Headedness in Chinese compounding and Chinese VR compounds. In J.P. Packard (Ed.), New Approaches to Chinese word formation: morphology, phonology and the lexicon of Modern and Ancient Chinese. (347-370). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (Chapter in Book)
  • Kuiper, K. (Ed.) (2007) Te Reo : Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand. Christchurch: Linguistic Society of NZ. (Edited Book)
  • Bell, A. and Kuiper, K. (Ed.) (2000) New Zealand English. Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press. (Edited Book)
  • (1999) Semantics: A Course Book. (1) Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Languages Education Press. (Edited Book)
  • Kuiper, A. and Kuiper, K. (2007) Making Bolognese with tertiary education. New Zealand Education Review, 12, 19, 6. (Journal Article)
  • Kuiper, K. (2007) New Zealand Pakeha Folklore and Myths of Origin. Journal of Folklore Research, 44, 2-3, 173-183. (Journal Article)
  • Kuiper, K., van Egmond, M-E., Kempen, G. and Sprenger, S. (2007) Slipping on superlemmas: Multi-word lexical items in speech production. The Mental Lexicon, 2, 3, 313-357. (Journal Article)
  • Kuiper, K. (2007) Teaching Ling101. Te Reo : Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand, 50, 71-78. (Journal Article)
  • Kuiper, K. (2006) Knowledge of language and phrasal vocabulary acquisition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 3, 291-292. (Journal Article)
  • Kuiper, K., McMurtrie, C. and Ronald, G. (2005) E-lectures within an integrated multimedia course design. Journal of Distance Learning, 9, 1, 37-45. (Journal Article)
  • Kuiper, K. (2005) Shakespeare's sonnet 116. The Explicator, 64, 1, 7-9. (Journal Article)
  • Kuiper, K. (2005) The growth of the two cultures: How did academics become change leaders in university administration? Herdsa News, 25, 3, 13-14. (Journal Article)
  • Kuiper, K. (2004) Education: neither a good nor a service. Education Review, 9, 21, 6. (Journal Article)
  • Kuiper, K. (2004) Etnografisch onderzoek en taalverschuiving: Nederlandse taalreservaten in Christchurch, Nieuw-Zeeland. Nederlandse Taalkunde, 9, 2, 132-143. (Journal Article)
  • Kuiper, K. (2004) From intent to malutterance: Slips of the brain. Landfall, 207, 90-96. (Journal Article)
  • Kuiper, A. and Kuiper, K. (2003) Constructing Vocational Aspirations Linguistically. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 1, 2, 223-240. (Journal Article)
  • Kuiper, K. (2003) Studying New Zealand English. English Today, 19, 3, 31-34. (Journal Article)
  • Kuiper, K. (2001) Linguistic registers and formulaic performance. New Zealand Journal of Sociology, 16, 1, 151-164. (Journal Article)
  • Duval, T. and Kuiper, K. (2001) Maori dictionaries and Maori loanwords. International Journal of Lexicography, 14, 4, 243-260. (Journal Article)
  • Kuiper, K. (2001) The phrasal lexicon and the non-native speaker teacher of English as a foreign language. The English Teacher, 4, 3, 261-273. (Journal Article)
  • Kuiper, K. (2000) On the Linguistic Properties of Formulaic Speech. Oral Tradition, 15, 2, 279-305. (Journal Article)
  • Kuiper, K. (2000) The non-native teacher and the phrasal lexicon in foreign language teaching. novELTy, 7, 2, 12-16. (Journal Article)
  • Kuiper, K. (1999) Compounding by adjunction and its empirical consequences. Language Sciences, 21, 407-422. (Journal Article)
  • Kuiper, K. (1998) Thinking about gender, power and language. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2, 1, 101-104. (Journal Article)
  • Kuiper, K. (1997) How fat is an idiom? New Zealand Science Monthly, 8, 10, 8-10. (Journal Article)