Lobke Aelbrecht

List of John Benjamins publications in which Lobke Aelbrecht is involved.

Titles

Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons

Edited by Lobke Aelbrecht, Liliane Haegeman and Rachel Nye

Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons takes the study of Main Clause Phenomena (MCP) into the 21st century, without neglecting the origins of the topic. It brings together work by both established and up-and-coming scholars, who present analyses for a wide range of MCP, from a variety of languages,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 190] 2012. vi, 433 pp.

The Syntactic Licensing of Ellipsis

Lobke Aelbrecht

This monograph presents a theory of ellipsis licensing in terms of Agree and applies it to several elliptical phenomena in both English and Dutch. The author makes two main claims: The head selecting the ellipsis site is checked against the head licensing ellipsis in order for ellipsis to occur,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 149] 2010. xii, 230 pp.

Articles (4) | Order by:

Aelbrecht, Lobke 2012 Modal complement ellipsis: VP ellipsis in Dutch? Comparative Germanic Syntax: The state of the art, Ackema, Peter, Rhona Alcorn, Caroline Heycock, Dany Jaspers, Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (eds.), pp. 1–34 | Article

Although the literature commonly assumes Dutch not to display VP ellipsis (VPE), this paper presents Dutch data reminiscent of VPE in English. In particular, the infinitival complement of a root modal can be elided. This modal complement ellipsis (MCE) differs from English VPE, however, in not… read more

Aelbrecht, Lobke, Liliane Haegeman and Rachel Nye 2012 Main Clause Phenomena and the privilege of the root Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons, Aelbrecht, Lobke, Liliane Haegeman and Rachel Nye (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Article

Aelbrecht, Lobke and Marcel den Dikken 2011 Doubling PPs in Flemish dialects Linguistics in the Netherlands 2011, Nouwen, Rick and Marion Elenbaas (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Article

Aelbrecht, Lobke 2006 IP-ellipsis in Dutch dialects: X + that-clause Linguistics in the Netherlands 2006, Weijer, Jeroen van de and Bettelou Los (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article