Michelle Suijkerbuijk
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michelle Suijkerbuijk is involved.
Articles
2023 Argument doubling with proper nouns in spoken Dutch: A corpus study Linguistics in the Netherlands 2023, Leufkens, Sterre and Marco Bril (eds.), pp. 248–262 | Article
Argument doubling, also known as (contrastive) left-dislocation, is common in spoken Dutch, but it is unclear exactly what triggers it. Earlier proposals in the literature showed that the construction is not used for marking contrast, and suggested it is used for marking shifted topics instead.… read more
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
2021 Strange nominative case in topicalized object pronominal relative clauses Linguistics in the Netherlands 2021, Dingemanse, Mark, Eva van Lier and Jorrig Vogels (eds.), pp. 81–97 | Article
In an online production experiment, we investigated the effect of sentence position on the preference for either a nominative or object form of an object pronoun restricted by a relative clause in Dutch. Results show a significant preference for the nominative form of the restricted object… read more