Maarten Bogaards
List of John Benjamins publications in which Maarten Bogaards is involved.
2025 Chapter 9. Aspectual cognate constructions in Afrikaans and Dutch: A language contact approach to prospective and ingressive aspect Dutch and Contact Linguistics: The Dutch language outside the Low Countries, Joby, Christopher and Nicoline van der Sijs (eds.), pp. 278–313 | Chapter
This chapter examines ingressive (‘begin’) and prospective (‘about to’) cognate constructions in Afrikaans and Dutch through the lens of language contact. We propose a theoretical account of the conceptual link between these aspectual viewpoints that generates predictions on their selectional… read more
2022 The syntax of progressive and ingressive aanhet -constructions in Dutch Linguistics in the Netherlands 2022, Vogels, Jorrig and Sterre Leufkens (eds.), pp. 2–20 | Article
This paper presents a novel syntactic analysis of the much-debated Dutch aanhet-construction, e.g. Pieter is aan het opruimen ‘lit. Peter is on the cleanup: Peter is cleaning up’. We show that the construction’s syntactic behavior varies with the matrix verb: progressive zijn ‘be’ versus… read more
2021 “Completely impartial opinion, okay?”: An argumentation-theoretical approach to sponsorships on YouTube Journal of Argumentation in Context 10:3, pp. 368–396 | Article
Sponsorships on YouTube – i.e., video creators on YouTube promoting a third-party product or service to their audience – have attracted considerable research interest recently in various disciplines. This multidisciplinary study analyzes it from the perspective of argumentation theory,… read more
2019 Posture verbs combined with past participles in Dutch: Fixed or productive patterns? Linguistics in the Netherlands 2019, Berns, Janine and Elena Tribushinina (eds.), pp. 67–82 | Article
Dutch uses cardinal posture verbs (zitten ‘to sit’, staan ‘to stand’, and liggen ‘to lie’) for all sorts of purposes, many of which have received considerable research attention – like the posture progressive, e.g. zitten te lezen ‘lit. sit to read: to be reading’. This paper investigates a… read more



