Maaike Beliën
List of John Benjamins publications in which Maaike Beliën is involved.
Articles
2016 A constructional perspective on conceptual constituency: Dutch postpositions or particles? Corpus-based Approaches to Construction Grammar, Yoon, Jiyoung and Stefan Th. Gries (eds.), pp. 11–38 | Article
Cognitive Grammar distinguishes three types of constituents: phonological,
conceptual, and grammatical constituents. This study argues that this distinction
offers a new and promising perspective on constructions whose constituent
structure, or ‘constituency’, has seemed to defy analysis in the… read more
2016 Dutch impersonal passives: Beyond volition and atelicity Linguistics in the Netherlands 2016, Audring, Jenny and Sander Lestrade (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Article
Dutch impersonal passives are often considered to be only compatible with atelic volitional verbs, such as werken ‘work’, lachen ‘laugh’, and zwemmen ‘swim’. Two recent corpus studies, however, argue that a wider range of verbs is compatible with the construction, presenting examples of attested… read more
2014 Auxiliary choice with Dutch verbs of directed motion Linguistics in the Netherlands 2014, Auer, Anita and Björn Köhnlein (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article
Dutch perfect tenses are constructed with the auxiliaries zijn ‘be’ and hebben ‘have’. Over the years, several semantic generalizations have been proposed to account for this auxiliary choice. This paper evaluates these generalizations on the basis of examples with verbs of directed motion… read more