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Linguistics in the Netherlands 2024

EditorMarco Bril & Kristel Doreleijers

Subjects Theoretical linguistics

[Nota Bene: Journal for Linguistics in Belgium and The Netherlands, 1:2] 2025. vi, 237 pp. | special issue

Syntax and Variation: Reconciling the Biological and the Social

Edited by Leonie Cornips & Karen P. Corrigan

Subjects Generative linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 265] 2005. vi, 312 pp. | edited volume

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2004

Edited by Leonie Cornips & Jenny Doetjes

Subjects Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistics in the Netherlands: AVT Publications, 21] 2004. | yearbook | open access

Linguistics in the Netherlands 2003

Edited by Leonie Cornips & Paula Fikkert

Subjects Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistics in the Netherlands: AVT Publications, 20] 2003. | yearbook | open access

Modality and its Interaction with the Verbal System

Edited by Sjef Barbiers, Frits Beukema & Wim van der Wurff

Subjects Generative linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 47] 2002. x, 290 pp. | edited volume

Fonteyn, Lauren, Enrique Manjavacas & Jaleesa De Regt 2025 Using machine learning to automate data annotation in corpus linguistics: A case study with MacBERTh

Keywords: machine learning | morphosyntax | gerund | participle | historical corpora

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 30:3 pp. 296–315 | article | open access

Doreleijers, Kristel, Remco Knooihuizen & Eva van Lier 2025 Foreword

Nota Bene 2:2 pp. 227–228 | preface

Hinskens, Frans & Etske Ooijevaar 2024 Social patterns in s-palatalisation in Moroccan and Turkish ethnolectal Dutch: One half of a sociolinguistic study

Keywords: ethnolect | Centre of Gravity | first and second language acquisition | language contact | language variation | palatalisation | social meaning

In: The Continuity of Linguistic Change: Selected papers in honour of Juan Andrés Villena-Ponsoda, Vida-Castro, Matilde & Antonio Manuel Ávila-Muñoz (eds.) [Studies in Language Variation, 31] pp. 56–78

Hinskens, Frans 2024 Preface

In: The Continuity of Linguistic Change: Selected papers in honour of Juan Andrés Villena-Ponsoda, Vida-Castro, Matilde & Antonio Manuel Ávila-Muñoz (eds.) [Studies in Language Variation, 31] pp. vii–x

Bril, Marco & Kristel Doreleijers 2025 Foreword

Nota Bene 1:2 pp. 115–116 | editorial

Doreleijers, Kristel & Jos Swanenberg 2023 Hyperdialectisms revisited

Keywords: hyperdialectism | dialect change | North Brabant | adnominal gender marking | sociolinguistics

Linguistics in the Netherlands 40 pp. 39–54 | article | open access

Piepers, Joske, Ad Backus & Jos Swanenberg 2023 Is ‘he’ still here?: Exploring the contemporary use of masculine subject pronouns for women in Dutch dialects

Keywords: Dutch dialects | female reference | interview | masculine subject pronoun | Twitter

Linguistics in the Netherlands 40 pp. 194–209 | article | open access

Rasenberg, Marlou, Azeb Amha, Matt Coler, Marjo van Koppen, Emiel van Miltenburg, Lynn de Rijk, Wyke Stommel & Mark Dingemanse 2023 Reimagining language: Towards a better understanding of language by including our interactions with non-humans

Keywords: language | human-animal interaction | human-computer interaction | meaning-making | large language models

Linguistics in the Netherlands 40 pp. 309–317 | article | open access

van de Poppe, Cora & Joanna Wall 2023 The pragmatic and rhetorical function of perfect doubling in the work of D. V. Coornhert

Keywords: double perfects | D. V. Coornhert | Early Modern Dutch | have-doubling | intra-author variation | stance marker/evaluative device

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 24:2 pp. 245–275 | article

Broekhuis, Hans 2022 VO or OV: V to v or not to v

Keywords: language change | Old/Middle English | Middle Dutch | VO-OV order | information structure | object shift | verb movement

Linguistic Variation 23:2 pp. 343–378 | article | open access

van der Wouden, Ton & Ad Foolen 2021 Dutch pragmatic markers in the left periphery

Keywords: Dutch | left periphery | pragmatic marker | pragmatic function | particle cluster

In: Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries, Van Olmen, Daniël & Jolanta Šinkūnienė (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 325] pp. 49–74

Broekhuis, Hans 2021 The rise of the periphrastic perfect tense in the continental West Germanic languages

Keywords: language change | periphrastic perfect tense | adjectival and verbal participle | copular and semi-copular verb | perfect auxiliary | “double perfect” construction | generative grammar | construction grammar

In: The Perfect Volume: Papers on the perfect, Eide, Kristin Melum & Marc Fryd (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 217] pp. 261–290

van Rossem, Cefas 2020 Snow on the Danish Antilles?: Referee design in Virgin Island Dutch Creole1

Keywords: audience design | missionary linguistics | historical sociolinguistics | Virgin Islands Dutch Creole | Clarin-NEHOL-Corpus

In: Advances in contact linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken, Smith, Norval, Tonjes Veenstra & Enoch O. Aboh (eds.) [Contact Language Library, 57] pp. 365–388

Wouden, Ton van der 2020  All good and well : Introducing an objection in Dutch

Keywords: pragmatics | construction | objection

Linguistics in the Netherlands 37 pp. 135–148 | article | open access

Broekhuis, Hans & Josef Bayer 2020 Clausal ellipsis: Deletion or selective spell-out?

Keywords: clausal ellipsis | A′-movement | deletion | spell-out | discourse particles

Linguistics in the Netherlands 37 pp. 23–37 | article | open access

Hoeksema, Jack & Ton van der Wouden 2020 On the Dutch temporal adverbial goed en wel

Keywords: temporal expression | Dutch | transition period | rhetoric | language change

Linguistics in the Netherlands 37 p. 90 | article | open access

Hinskens, Frans 2020 Surviving Limburg and Hollandic dialect features and what they have in common

Keywords: dialect levelling | diaglossia | intermediate varieties | koine | regional standard variety | resistance to dialect loss | stability | coherence

In: Intermediate language varieties: Koinai and regional standards in Europe, Cerruti, Massimo & Stavroula Tsiplakou (eds.) [Studies in Language Variation, 24] pp. 55–78

Essegbey, James & Adrienne Bruyn 2020 Moving into and out of Sranan: Multiple effects of contact

Keywords: expression of motion | substrate influence | contact-induced change | pattern replication | Sranan | Gbe languages | Ewe | English | Dutch

In: Advances in contact linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken, Smith, Norval, Tonjes Veenstra & Enoch O. Aboh (eds.) [Contact Language Library, 57] pp. 37–60

Smith, Norval & Frans Hinskens 2020 Pottefers Cant, Groenstraat Bargoens, and the development of “have” and “be” in the wider context of contact

Keywords: secret language | cryptolect | language contact | borrowing | lexical replacement | combiverb | Judeo-German | Romani | Sinti | travellers | Bargoens | woonwagenbewoners

In: Advances in contact linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken, Smith, Norval, Tonjes Veenstra & Enoch O. Aboh (eds.) [Contact Language Library, 57] pp. 283–338

Oostendorp, Marc van 2019 Dutch linguistics and the general audience

Linguistics in the Netherlands 36:1 pp. 49–53 | article

Sijs, Nicoline van der 2019 Historical linguistics in the Netherlands

Linguistics in the Netherlands 36:1 pp. 54–59 | article

Cornips, Leonie 2019 The final frontier: Non-human animals on the linguistic research agenda

Linguistics in the Netherlands 36:1 pp. 13–19 | article

Bentum, Martijn, Louis ten Bosch, Antal van den Bosch & Mirjam Ernestus 2019 Do speech registers differ in the predictability of words?

Keywords: speech registers | word predictability | text classification | statistical language modelling | register analysis

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 24:1 p. 98 | article

Cornips, Leonie & Vincent A. de Rooij 2018 Introduction: Belonging through linguistic place-making in center-periphery constellations

In: The Sociolinguistics of Place and Belonging: Perspectives from the margins, Cornips, Leonie & Vincent A. de Rooij (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 45] pp. 1–14

Stengs, Irene 2018 Peripheral performances: The languagecultural practices of Dutch-Limburgian world star André Rieu

In: The Sociolinguistics of Place and Belonging: Perspectives from the margins, Cornips, Leonie & Vincent A. de Rooij (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 45] pp. 149–176

Barbiers, Sjef, Hans Bennis & Lotte Dros-Hendriks 2018 Merging verb cluster variation

Keywords: verb clusters | varieties of Dutch and Frisian | base-generation | merge | language variation | adjectival participles | nominal infinitives | particles | geographic distribution

Linguistic Variation 18:1 pp. 144–196 | article

Broekhuis, Hans 2018 The syntax of Dutch gapping

Keywords: A′-movement | gapping | ellipsis | particles | negation

Linguistics in the Netherlands 35:1 pp. 19–33 | article | open access

Jongbloed-Faber, Lysbeth, Jolie van Loo & Leonie Cornips 2017 Regional languages on Twitter: A comparative study between Frisian and Limburgish

Keywords: regional languages | Twitter | social media | language choice | Frisian | Limburgish | minority languages

Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 6:2 pp. 174–196 | article

van Oostendorp, Marc 2016 Review of Making Waves. The Story of Variationist Sociolinguistics by Sali A. Tagliamonte (2016)

Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 5:1 pp. 97–99 | book review

Ouddeken, Nina 2016 Voicing distinctions in the Dutch-German dialect continuum

Keywords: dialectology | phonology | phonetics | Laryngeal Realism | transition zones

Linguistics in the Netherlands 33:1 pp. 106–120 | article | open access

Hendriks, Lotte 2014 Variation in verb cluster interruption

Keywords: Cross-linguistic variation | implicational hierarchy | processing preference | verb cluster interruption

Linguistics in the Netherlands 31:1 pp. 53–65 | article | open access

Postma, Gertjan 2013 Clause-typing by [2] – the loss of the 2nd person pronoun du 'you' in Dutch, Frisian and Limburgian dialects

In: Information Structure and Agreement, Camacho-Taboada, Victoria, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández, Javier Martín-González & Mariano Reyes-Tejedor (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 197] pp. 217–254

Torres-Tamarit, Francesc & Claudia Pons-Moll 2012 Serial prosodification and voiced stop geminates in Catalan

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2010: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Leiden 2010, Franco, Irene, Sara Lusini & Andrés Saab (eds.) [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 4] pp. 115–134

Koeneman, Olaf, Marika Lekakou & Sjef Barbiers 2011 Perfect doubling

Linguistic Variation 11:1 pp. 35–75 | article

Bennis, Hans 2010 A dynamic perspective on inflection

In: Structure Preserved: Studies in syntax for Jan Koster, Zwart, C. Jan-Wouter & Mark de Vries (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 164] pp. 49–56

Broekhuis, Hans & Ralf Vogel 2010 Crash-proof syntax and filters

In: Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars, Putnam, Michael T. (ed.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 3] pp. 245–268

Postma, Gertjan 2010 The impact of failed changes

In: Continuity and Change in Grammar, Breitbarth, Anne, Christopher Lucas, Sheila Watts & David Willis (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 159] pp. 269–302

Hall, Daniel Currie 2010 Probing the unnatural

Linguistics in the Netherlands 27:1 pp. 73–85 | article | open access

Battisti, Elisa & Ben Hermans 2009 Fixed and variable properties of the palatalization of dental stops in Brazilian Portuguese: In an Italian immigrant community

In: Phonetics and Phonology: Interactions and interrelations, Vigário, Marina, Sónia Frota & M. João Freitas (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 306] pp. 235–246

Hinskens, Frans L. & Marc van Oostendorp 2009 Sources of phonological variation in a large database for Dutch dialects

In: Language Variation – European perspectives II: Selected papers from the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 4), Nicosia, June 2007, Tsiplakou, Stavroula, Marilena Karyolemou & Pavlos Pavlou (eds.) [Studies in Language Variation, 5] pp. 103–118

Lekakou, Marika 2009 Aspect matters in the middle

In: The Limits of Syntactic Variation, Biberauer, Theresa (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 132] pp. 247–294

Brouwer, Susanne, Leonie Cornips & Aafke Hulk 2008 Misrepresentation of Dutch neuter gender in older bilingual children?

In: Current Trends in Child Second Language Acquisition: A generative perspective, Haznedar, Belma & Elena Gavruseva (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 46] pp. 83–96

Beijering, Karin, Charlotte Gooskens & Wilbert Heeringa 2008 Predicting intelligibility and perceived linguistic distance by means of the Levenshtein algorithm

Linguistics in the Netherlands 25:1 pp. 13–24 | article | open access

van Oostendorp, Marc 2008 3. Exceptions to final devoicing

In: Voicing in Dutch: (De)voicing – phonology, phonetics, and psycholinguistics, van de Weijer, Jeroen & Erik Jan van der Torre (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 286] pp. 81–98

Bennis, Hans 2008 Featuring the subject in Dutch imperatives

In: Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar: Studies in honour of Frits Beukema, van der Wurff, Wim (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 103] pp. 113–134

Postma, Gertjan & Wim van der Wurff 2008 How to say no and don’t: Negative imperatives in Romance and Germanic

In: Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar: Studies in honour of Frits Beukema, van der Wurff, Wim (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 103] pp. 205–249

Rooryck, Johan & Gertjan Postma 2008 On participial imperatives

In: Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar: Studies in honour of Frits Beukema, van der Wurff, Wim (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 103] pp. 273–296

Barbiers, Sjef 2008 On the periphery of imperative and declarative clauses in Dutch and German

In: Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar: Studies in honour of Frits Beukema, van der Wurff, Wim (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 103] p. 95

Levelt, Clara & Marc van Oostendorp 2007 Feature co-occurrence constraints in L1 acquisition

Linguistics in the Netherlands 24:1 pp. 162–172 | article | open access

Prehn, Maike 2007 Schwa loss and its results in Low German: Tone or Overlength?

Linguistics in the Netherlands 24:1 pp. 187–198 | article | open access

Hulk, Aafke & Leonie Cornips 2008 Neuter gender and interface vulnerability in child L2/2L1 Dutch

In: Paths of Development in L1 and L2 acquisition: In honor of Bonnie D. Schwartz, Unsworth, Sharon, Teresa Parodi, Antonella Sorace & Martha Young-Scholten (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 39] pp. 107–134

Spruit, Marco René 2005 Classifying Dutch dialects using a syntactic measure: The perceptual Daan and Blok dialect map revisited

Linguistics in the Netherlands 22:1 pp. 179–190 | article | open access

van de Weijer, Jeroen & Frans L. Hinskens 2004 On segmental complexity: Affricates and patterns of segmental modification in consonant inventories

Linguistics in the Netherlands 21:1 pp. 217–228 | article | open access

Cornips, Leonie M.E.A. & Jenny Doetjes 2004 Preface

Linguistics in the Netherlands 21:1 p. v | other | open access

van Oostendorp, Marc 2003 Review of Language and National Identity. Comparing France and Sweden by Leigh Oakes (2001)

Language Problems and Language Planning 27:2 pp. 194–197 | book review

Hinskens, Frans L. & Jeroen van de Weijer 2003 Patterns of segmental modification in consonant inventories: Contrastive vs. redundant systems and phonology vs. phonetics

Linguistics in the Netherlands 20:1 pp. 71–81 | article | open access

Cornips, Leonie M.E.A. & Paula Fikkert 2003 Preface

Linguistics in the Netherlands 20:1 p. v | other | open access

Alexiadou, Artemis, Elena Anagnostopoulou, Sjef Barbiers & Hans-Martin Gärtner 2008 1. Introduction

In: Dimensions of Movement: From features to remnants, Alexiadou, Artemis, Elena Anagnostopoulou, Sjef Barbiers & Hans-Martin Gärtner (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 48] pp. 1–16

Barbiers, Sjef 2008 4. Remnant stranding and the theory of Movement

In: Dimensions of Movement: From features to remnants, Alexiadou, Artemis, Elena Anagnostopoulou, Sjef Barbiers & Hans-Martin Gärtner (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 48] pp. 47–67

Barbiers, Sjef 2008 Current issues in modality: An introduction to modality and its interaction with the verbal system

In: Modality and its Interaction with the Verbal System, Barbiers, Sjef, Frits Beukema & Wim van der Wurff (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 47] pp. 1–17

Barbiers, Sjef 2008 Modality and polarity

In: Modality and its Interaction with the Verbal System, Barbiers, Sjef, Frits Beukema & Wim van der Wurff (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 47] pp. 51–73

Cornips, Leonie M.E.A. & Willy Jongenburger 2002 Elicitation techniques in a Dutch syntactic dialect atlas project

Linguistics in the Netherlands 18:1 pp. 53–63 | article | open access

Cornips, Leonie M.E.A. 2000 The use of gaan+infinitive in narratives of older bilingual children of Moroccan and Turkish descent

Linguistics in the Netherlands 17:1 pp. 57–67 | article | open access

Swets, Francine 2000 Tilburg Dutch vowel alternations and phonological elements

Linguistics in the Netherlands 17:1 pp. 199–207 | article | open access

Hermans, Ben & Marc van Oostendorp 2000 Voice–tone interaction in a Limburg dialect: Evidence for feature licensing

Linguistics in the Netherlands 17:1 pp. 81–91 | article | open access

Cornips, Leonie M.E.A. & Aafke Hulk 1999 Affected Objects in Heerlen Dutch and Romance

Languages in Contrast 1:2 pp. 191–210 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.