Harvey Haans
List of John Benjamins publications in which Harvey Haans is involved.
Articles
2025 Pa ging morgen golfen: A Kleinian analysis of the posterior past in Dutch Linguistics in the Netherlands 2025, Doreleijers, Kristel, Remco Knooihuizen and Eva van Lier (eds.), pp. 324–339 | Article
The study reported in this article investigates the phenomenon of the posterior past in Dutch, where the preterite refers to present or future eventualities, challenging traditional tense-aspect (TA) analysis. Building on the work of Haans and de Hoop (2023), this study offers a reanalysis of… read more
2023 Past tense reference to future eventualities: A Reichenbachian approach Linguistics in the Netherlands 2023, Leufkens, Sterre and Marco Bril (eds.), pp. 55–68 | Article
The simple past in Dutch, as in many other European languages, is not necessarily used to refer to a past eventuality. A Dutch example of a verb in simple past that does not refer to a past event, taken from the Spoken Dutch Corpus (CGN), is: Pa die ging morgen golfen ‘Dad is going to play golf… read more