Marten van der Meulen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marten van der Meulen is involved.
Articles
2022 De dochter doet een powernap: Definite article possessives with kinship terms in Dutch Linguistics in the Netherlands 2022, Vogels, Jorrig and Sterre Leufkens (eds.), pp. 192–208 | Article
While kinship relations in Dutch are usually introduced by a possessive determiner, Twitter users have recently been observed to use a definite article in that position. To learn more about the characteristics of this construction, we performed an exploratory investigation of the definite… read more
2018 Do we want more or less variation? The comparative markers als and dan in Dutch prescriptivism since 1900 Linguistics in the Netherlands 2018, Le Bruyn, Bert and Janine Berns (eds.), pp. 79–96 | Article
The suppression of optional variability is a cornerstone of English prescriptivism. For Dutch, however, it is unknown whether this concept is equally important. The goal of this paper is to investigate which stance towards variation is taken in Dutch prescriptivism, and what arguments are used… read more