Linguistics in the Netherlands 2008

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Bert Botma | Leiden University

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The 39th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 2nd, 2008. The aim of the annual meetings is to provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.

At this year’s meeting, 91 papers were presented, of which 24 were submitted to the present volume. This volume contains a selection of these papers, which present an overview of current research in a variety of fields in linguistics.

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 25] 2008. 190 pp.

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Published online on 14 October 2008

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https://doi.org/10.1075/avt.25

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
Contributors	vii–viii
Articles
Pauses as indicators in story structure (Benin) Marjolijn Grool	1–12
Predicting intelligibility and perceived linguistic distance by means of the Levenshtein algorithm Karin Beijering, Charlotte Gooskens and Wilbert Heeringa	13–24
The Early Surinamese Creoles in the Suriname Creole Archive (SUCA) Margot van den Berg and Adrienne Bruyn	25–36
VP-Internal DPs and Right-Dislocation in Zulu Leston Buell	37–49
How universal is the Universal Grinder? Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng, Jenny Doetjes and Rint Sybesma	50–62
Proper names used as Common Nouns in Belgian Dutch and German Karen De Clercq	63–74
Preposition stranding in development Peter Coopmans and Rianne Schippers	75–86
Preliminary remarks on object-marking in Makalero Juliette Huber	87–96
Language Attrition in Dutch Emigrants in Anglophone Canada: Internally or externally-induced change? Merel Keijzer	97–108
NPI-licensing and dependent tense in Serbian Nataša Milicević	109–120
Czech modal existential wh-constructions as vP-level free relatives Radek Simík	121–132
Intensive plurality: Hausa pluractional verbs and degree semantics Kateřina Součková and Malami Buba	133–144
Mutual intelligibility of Chinese dialects tested functionally Chaoju Tang and Vincent J. van Heuven	145–156
The encoding of adjectives Annemarie Verkerk and Sander Lestrade	157–168
The placement of bare plural subjects in Dutch Jorrig Vogels and Monique Lamers	169–180

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