Albert Oosterhof
List of John Benjamins publications in which Albert Oosterhof is
involved.
Title
The Semantics of Generics in Dutch and Related Languages
Albert Oosterhof
This monograph is a comprehensive study of the various ways in which genericity can be expressed in Dutch, dialects of Dutch, and languages related to Dutch. On the basis of empirical (corpus- and questionnaire-based) data, a wide range of topics are discussed which have been addressed in the… read moreArticles
This paper presents a corpus study of article omission in newspaper headlines. The corpus consists of material from a variety of Dutch and Flemish newspapers. The most important factor influencing the frequency of article omission in headlines is the journalistic genre in which it occurs. The… read more Rys, Kathy and Albert Oosterhof 2016
Fragment answers with infinitives in a Flemish dialect Linguistics in the Netherlands 2016, Audring, Jenny and Sander Lestrade (eds.), pp. 89–105 | Article This paper is devoted to a construction in a specific Flemish dialect, in which infinitives are used in fragment answers in contexts where this would be unacceptable in other varieties. Questions such as Waar is mijn boek? ‘Where is my book?’ can be answered with constructions such as Op tafel… read more In this paper I focus on the semantics and distribution of Dutch bare plurals and faded partitives. It has been claimed in the literature that both types of noun phrases are indefinite, because they can occur in existential sentences. I discuss the semantic differences between faded partitives and… read more 
