Jan-Wouter Zwart
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jan-Wouter Zwart is involved.
Book series
ISSN 0166-0829
Footprints of Phrase Structure: Studies in syntax in honour of Tim Stowell
Edited by María J. Arche, Jan-Wouter Zwart, Hamida Demirdache and Hagit Borer
This volume presents a collection of state-of-the-art studies that illustrate recent advances in the understanding of human language, grammar design and linguistic categories. The title of the volume aims at highlighting the mark that the work of Tim Stowell has had on the field of Linguistics… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 288] 2025. xiii, 368 pp.
Structure Preserved: Studies in syntax for Jan Koster
Edited by Jan-Wouter Zwart and Mark de Vries
"Structure is at the rock-bottom of all explanatory sciences" (Jan Koster). Forty years ago, the hypothesis that underlying the bewildering variety of syntactic phenomena are general and unified structural patterns of unexpected beauty and simplicity gave rise to major advancements in the study of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 164] 2010. xxiii, 395 pp.
Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology
Edited by Werner Abraham and Jan-Wouter Zwart
This book takes up a variety of general syntactic topics, which either yield different solutions in German, in particular, or which lead to different conclusions for theory formation. One of the main topics is the fact that languages that allow for extensive scrambling between the two verbal poles,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 45] 2002. xviii, 336 pp.
Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax: Proceedings from the 15th Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax (Groningen, May 26–27, 2000)
Edited by Jan-Wouter Zwart and Werner Abraham
This volume presents a collection of articles reporting on new research carried out within the theoretical framework of generative grammar on the comparative syntax of the Germanic languages.Divided in four main sections, the book focuses on issues of subordination and complementation (with… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 53] 2002. xiv, 404 pp.
Reflections on Language and Language Learning: In honour of Arthur van Essen
Edited by Marcel Bax and Jan-Wouter Zwart
In Reflections on Language and Language Learning: In honour of Arthur van Essen, thirty-one leading language scholars and educational linguists in the Netherlands and abroad with whom over the years Professor van Essen, one of the grandees of applied linguistics, has collaborated provide original… read more[Not in series, 109] 2001. xxxiv, 366 pp.
Minimal Ideas: Syntactic studies in the minimalist framework
Edited by Werner Abraham, Samuel David Epstein, Höskuldur Thráinsson and Jan-Wouter Zwart
The articles in this volume are inspired by the Minimalist Program first outlined in Chomsky’s MIT Fall term class lectures of 1991 and in his seminal paper “A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory”. The articles seek to develop further some key idea in the Minimalist Program, sometimes in ways… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 12] 1996. xii, 364 pp.
2025 Postsyntactic morphology and the syntax of verb clusters Footprints of Phrase Structure: Studies in syntax in honour of Tim Stowell, Arche, María J., Jan-Wouter Zwart, Hamida Demirdache and Hagit Borer (eds.), pp. 76–110 | Chapter
This article starts from the observation that (past/anterior) tense in infinitival clauses in Dutch is expressed periphrastically. Interestingly, this also occurs with infinitives that undergo ‘restructuring’ by Wurmbrand’s (2001) criteria. It follows that a simple dichotomy into tenseless… read more
2012 Easy to (re)analyse: Tough-constructions in minimalism Linguistics in the Netherlands 2012, Elenbaas, Marion and Suzanne Aalberse (eds.), pp. 147–158 | Article
Within minimalism, we may assume derivations to involve subderivations, connected by the interface components dealing with sound and meaning (layered derivations). If so, complex adjectival constructions involving predicates like tough/easy (as in John is easy to please) receive a natural account… read more
2010 Something else on variables in syntax Structure Preserved: Studies in syntax for Jan Koster, Zwart, Jan-Wouter and Mark de Vries (eds.), pp. 375–384 | Article
2009 Uncharted territory? Towards a non-cartographic account of Germanic syntax Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax, Alexiadou, Artemis, Jorge Hankamer, Thomas McFadden, Justin Nuger and Florian Schäfer (eds.), pp. 59–84 | Article
This article discusses the consequences of a strictly derivational approach—where syntactic relations are construed dynamically as the derivation proceeds—to the analysis of key areas of Germanic syntax. It discusses the nature of syntactic positions from a non-cartographic point of view. Evidence… read more
2006 Local agreement Agreement Systems, Boeckx, Cedric (ed.), pp. 317–339 | Article
2005 Verb second as a function of Merge The Function of Function Words and Functional Categories, Dikken, Marcel den and Christina Tortora (eds.), pp. 11–40 | Article
2005 Some notes on coordination in head-final languages Linguistics in the Netherlands 2005, Doetjes, Jenny and Jeroen van de Weijer (eds.), pp. 231–242 | Article
2002 Introduction Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax: Proceedings from the 15th Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax (Groningen, May 26–27, 2000), Zwart, Jan-Wouter and Werner Abraham (eds.), pp. vii–xii | Article
2000 Transitive expletive constructions and the object shift parameter Linguistics in the Netherlands 2000, Hoop, Helen de and Ton van der Wouden (eds.), pp. 159–170 | Article
2000 A Head Raising Analysis of Relative Clauses in Dutch The Syntax of Relative Clauses, Alexiadou, Artemis, Paul Law, André Meinunger and Chris Wilder (eds.), pp. 349–386 | Article
1999 Antecedent-Contained Deletion as Deletion Linguistics in the Netherlands 1999, Bezooijen, Renée van and René Kager (eds.), pp. 203–216 | Article
1996 Introduction Minimal Ideas: Syntactic studies in the minimalist framework, Abraham, Werner, Samuel David Epstein, Höskuldur Thráinsson and Jan-Wouter Zwart (eds.), pp. 1–66 | Article
1996 “Shortest Move” versus “Fewest Steps” Minimal Ideas: Syntactic studies in the minimalist framework, Abraham, Werner, Samuel David Epstein, Höskuldur Thráinsson and Jan-Wouter Zwart (eds.), pp. 305–327 | Article
1996 Verb clusters in continental West Germanic dialects Microparametric Syntax and Dialect Variation, Black, James R. and Virginia Motapanyane (eds.), pp. 229–258 | Article
1995 A note on verb clusters in the Stellingwerf dialect Linguistics in the Netherlands 1995, Dikken, Marcel den and Kees Hengeveld (eds.), pp. 215–226 | Article
1991 Reconstruction and Vehicle Change Linguistics in the Netherlands 1991, Drijkoningen, Frank and Ans M.C. van Kemenade (eds.), pp. 151–160 | Article