Curriculum vitae of Jack Hoeksema
Current address:
Department of Dutch Language and Culture
Faculty of
Letters
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26
9712
EK Groningen
phone: (work) 050-3635862
e-mail: j.hoeksema@rug.nl
Personalia:
Day of Birth: October 30, 1956
Nationality: Dutch
Degrees:
MA (cum laude), Dutch literature and linguistics with a major in Dutch
linguistics and minors in general linguistics and logic, August 31 1981,
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
PhD: December 20, 1984, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Positions held:
From February 1, 1982 to October 1, 1984: researcher on a grant from the
Netherlands Organization for the Advancement of Pure Research.
From October
1, 1984 to December 31, 1985: instructor in linguistics at the Ohio State
University, Columbus, Ohio.
From January 1, 1986 to June 30, 1986 as a
visiting professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
From
July 1, 1986 to June 30, 1990 as an assistant professor at the University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
From July 9 to August 4, 1989, as a
visiting professor at the 1989 LSA Summer Institute of Linguistics, Tucson,
Arizona.
From January 1 to June 30, 1990, as a visiting scholar at the
University of Groningen on a grant from NWO.
From July 29 to August 10, 1990
as a faculty member at the Second European Summerschool in Language, Logic, and
Information, at the Catholic University of Leuven.
From July 1, 1990 to
December 31 1991, as an assistant professor at the University of
Groningen.
From January 1, 1992, as an associate professor at the University
of Groningen.
From January 1, 2003, as a full professor at the University of
Groningen.
From September 1, 2005 to June 30, 2006, as the Julian and Virginia Cornell Visiting Professor
at Swarthmore College.
Research grants:
Dissertation grant from ZWO, 1982-1984.
Grant for work on historical syntax from NSF to the University of
Pennsylvania (1989, title "Head-Complement Order in the History of the
West-Germanic Clause", as coinvestigator; principal investigator Anthony S. Kroch)
Pionier grant from NWO, 1992-1996 for a large research project "Reflections
of Logical Patterns in Language Structure and Language Use" at the University of
Groningen.
Courses taught:
Undergraduate level:
Introduction to linguistics, Linguistic typology, Morphology, Introduction to
Dutch syntax, Introduction to Government-Binding Theory, Psycholinguistics,
Middle Dutch, Historical Phonology, corpuslinguistics, introduction to
philological methods.
Graduate level:
Introductory syntax, intermediate syntax, introduction to formal semantics,
algebraic linguistics, seminar in morphology, seminar in GB syntax, seminar in
West-Germanic syntax, seminar on boolean semantics, seminar on generalized
quantifiers, seminar on anaphora in discourse, course on categorial morphology,
course on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, diachronic syntax, negative
polarity items.
Administrative Service
- Chair of the Department of Dutch Language and Culture (2003-2005)
- Member of the University of Groningen Research Council (2003-2005)
- Director of Studies of the Research Master in Linguistics (2003-2005)
- Member of the Faculty of Letters Research Council (1998-2001)
Professional Service:
- Co-editor of the Linguistic Bulletin of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
(Tabu), 1979-1984, 1997 - .
- Consulting editor, Yearbook of Morphology, 1988-2005.
- Member of the editorial board, Nederlandse Taalkunde.
- Member of the editorial board, Annual Review of Language Acquisition, 2001-2003.
- Member of the international board, Revue de Semantique et Pragmatique.
- Reviewer for: Language, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory,
Linguistics and Philosophy, Linguistic Analysis, Journal of Linguistics, Linguistics,
Linguistic Inquiry, The Linguistic Review, Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Semantics, Lingua, Folia Linguistica, IBM Journal
of Research and Development, Syntax, GLOT, Tabu, Taal en Tongval, Probus, Phonology Yearbook, Journal
of Computing and Information Technology, Language Acquisition, Nederlandse Taalkunde, WCCFL, SALT,
Formal Grammar, DIGS, Penn Linguistics Colloquium, The University of Chicago Press,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, The MIT-Press, Mouton-de Gruyter, Oxford University Press,
CSLI,NWO (the Dutch Organisation for Research), NRF (the South-African research foundation),
FWO (The Flemish Research Foundation, the American Association of University Women,
The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust and the National Science Foundation.
- Occasional referee for tenure committees
Organizer of
- 5th Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, September 30 - October 2,
1988, held at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Workshop on negation and polarity items, Fourth European Summer School in Logic, Language
and Information, University of Essex, Colchester, 1992
- Workshop on negation, Groningen, June 21-22, 1994, Groningen.
- Conference "Perspectives on Negation", August 24-26, 1996, Groningen (with
H. Rullmann, V. Sanchez, T. van der Wouden)
- Swarthmore Workshop on Negation and Polarity, April 14-15, 2006, Swarthmore College
- LOT Winterschool 2009 (local organizer)
Chair of the Programme Committee, Fifth European Summer School in Logic,
Language and Information, Lisbon 1993.
Member of the dissertation prize committee of the Algemene Vereniging voor
Taalwetenschap (AVT), 1996.
Chair of the 2004 AVT/Anela dissertation prize committee.
Member of the 2004-2005 NWO Veni committee
Member of the 2007-2009 NWO Vici committee
Member of the advisory board of the Integrated Language Bank of the Dutch Institute of
Lexicology (2001-2009)
Outside examiner for the University of Edinburgh, University of Ghent, University College London
and Swarthmore College
Promotor (thesis supervisor) or co-promotor of
- Crit Cremers, On parsing coordination categorially (U of Leiden, 1993)
- Ton van der Wouden, Negative contexts (U of Groningen, 1994)
- Sjoukje van der Wal, Negative Polarity Items & Negation: Tandem
Acquisition (U of Groningen, 1996)
- Anastasia Giannakidou, The Landscape of Polarity Items (U of Groningen,
1997)
- Henny Klein, Adverbs of Degree in Dutch (U of Groningen, 1997)
- Judith Rispens, Syntactic and Phonological Processing in Development
Dyslexia (U of Groningen, 2004)
- Gerlof Bouma, Starting a sentence in Dutch. A corpus study of subject- and object-fronting
(U of Groningen, 2008)
Publications
Monographs and edited volumes
- Categorial Morphology, doctoral dissertation, Rijksuniversiteit
Groningen, 1984,published in 1985 by Garland Press Inc., New York, Outstanding
Dissertations in Linguistics Series.
- Special Issue on Negative Polarity of Linguistic Analysis (edited),
1995.
- Partitives (edited), Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 1996.
- Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items, edited together with
Hotze Rullmann, Victor Sanchez-Valencia and Ton van der Wouden. John
Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 2001.
Articles
International
- "Plurality and Conjunction", A.G.B. ter Meulen, ed., Studies in
Model-theoretic Semantics, Foris, Dordrecht, 1983, 63-83.
- "Negative Polarity and the Comparative", Natural Language and
Linguistic Theory 1-3, 1983, 403-434.
- "To Be Continued: The Story of the Comparative", Journal of
Semantics 3-1/2, 1984, 93-107.
- "Formal Properties of Stress Representations", H. van der Hulst and N.
Smith, eds., Advances in Nonlinear Phonology, Foris, Dordrecht, 1985,
83-99.
- "Wazdat: Contracted Forms and Verb Second in Dutch", J.T. Faarlund, ed.,
Germanic Linguistics: Papers from a Symposium at the University of
Chicago, April 24, 1985. Indiana University Linguistics Club, Bloomington,
112-124.
- "Traces in COMP: Invisible or Nonexistent?",W.H. Eilfort, P.D. Kroeber,
K.L. Peterson, eds., Proceedings of the 21th Regional Meeting of the
Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, 1985,
160-171.
- "Some Theoretical Consequences of Dutch Complementizer Agreement", V.
Nikiforidou, M. Van Clay, M. Niepokuj and D. Feder, eds., Proceedings of
the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley
Linguistics Society, Berkeley, 1986, 147-158..
- "An Account of Relative Clauses With Split Antecedents", M. Dalrymple, J.
Goldberg, K. Hanson, M. Inman, C. Pinon, and S. Wechsler, eds., Proceedings
of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, vol. 5, 1986, 68-86.
- "Monotonicity Phenomena in Natural Language", Linguistic Analysis
16-1/2, 1986, 235-250. [Reprinted in Javier Gutierrez-Rexach, ed., Semantics -
Critical concepts, Routledge, London, 2004]
- "Relating Word Structure and Logical Form", Linguistic Inquiry
18-1, 1987, 119-126.
- "Babbling Babes and Little Linguists", L. Kenton and S. Weinberger, eds.,
University of Washington Working Papers in Linguistics, no.9, 1987,
118-131.
- "Silent Features and Syntactic Analysis", B.D. Joseph and A.M. Zwicky,
eds., A Festschrift For Ilse Lehiste. In: Ohio State Working Papers
in Linguistics 35, Columbus, 1987, 210-214.
- "Construction Types in Categorial Grammar", R.K. Belnap, R. Foye, and L.
Morgenthaler, eds., The Penn Review of Linguistics 11, 1987, p. 48-60.
- "The Logic of Exception", A. Miller and J. Powers, eds., Proceedings of
the Fourth Eastern States Conference on Linguistics. The Ohio State
University, Columbus, Ohio, 1987, 100-113.
- "Implications of Process Morphology for Categorial Grammar" (with Richard
D. Janda), in R.T. Oehrle, E. Bach and D. Wheeler, eds., Categorial
Grammars and Natural Language Structures, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1988,
199-247.
- "The Semantics of Nonboolean 'and'", Journal of Semantics, vol. 6,
no. 1, 1988, 19-40.
- "A Constraint on Governors in the West Germanic Verb Cluster", M.
Everaert, A. Evers, R. Huybregts, and M. Trommelen, eds., Morphology and
Modularity, Foris, Dordrecht, 1988, 147-161.
- "Head-Types in Morpho-Syntax", Yearbook of Morphology, vol. 1,
1988, 123-137.
- "Only in Dutch: A Comparison of Three Adverbs", M. Jack, L. Koenig and A.
Taylor, eds., The Penn Review of Linguistics 13, 1989, 106-121.
- "What's right and what's wrong with i-within-i", Proceedings of the 25th
Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, 1989, 315-327. [with Donna Jo
Napoli]
- "Exploring Exception Phrases", in M. Stokhof and L. Torenvliet, eds.,
Proceedings of the Seventh Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, ITLI,
Institute for Language, Logic and Information, 1990, 165-190.
- "A Condition on Circular Chains: A Restatement of i-within-i", in
Journal of Linguistics 26, 1990, 403-424. (with Donna Jo Napoli)
- "Some Remarks on Focus Adverbs" (with F. Zwarts), Journal of
Semantics vol.18, no. 1-2, 1991, 51-70.
- "Complex Predicates and Liberation in Dutch and English", in
Linguistics and Philosophy 14-4, 1991, 661-710.
- "Categorial Morphology and the Valency of Nouns", M. Aronoff, ed.,
Morphology Now, SUNY-Press, 1992, 83-106, 198-203.
- "The Head Parameter in Morphology and Syntax", D.G. Gilbers and S.
Looyenga, eds., Language and Cognition 2. Yearbook 1992 of the research
group for linguistic theory and knowledge representation of the University of
Groningen, De Passage, Groningen, 119-132.
- "Suppression of a word-order pattern in Westgermanic", J. van Marle, ed.,
Historical Linguistics 1991. Papers from the 10th international
conference on historical linguistics, John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia,
1993, 153-174.
- "As (of) yet", A. de Boer, J. de Jong and R. Landeweerd, eds., Language
and Cognition 3. University of Groningen, Groningen, 1993, 79-87.
- "Paratactic and subordinative so", (with Donna Jo Napoli), Journal of
Linguistics 29 (1993), 291-314.
- "A semantic argument for complex predicates". M. Harvey and L. Santelmann,
eds., Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory IV, Cornell
University, Ithaca, 1994, 145-160.
- "On the grammaticalization of negative polarity items". S. Gahl, A. Dolbey
and C. Johnson, eds., Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the
Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley,
1994, 273-282.
- "The Semantics of Exception Phrases," in Jan van Eijck and Jaap van der
Does, eds., Quantifiers, Logic, and Language. CSLI, Chicago, 1995,
145-177.
- "From comparative to adverb of degree: Dutch even" (with Henny Klein), in
Roel Jonkers, Edith Kaan and Anko Wiegel, eds., Language and Cognition
5, University of Groningen, Groningen, 1996, 59-70.
- "Introduction," in Jacob Hoeksema, ed., Partitives, Mouton de
Gruyter, Berlin, 1996, 1-24.
- "Floating quantifiers, partitives and distributivity," in Jacob Hoeksema,
ed., Partitives, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 1996, 57-106.
- "Introduction to the special issue on negative polarity", Linguistic
Analysis 25-3/4, 1995, 143-145.
- "Negative Predicates and their Arguments," (with Henny Klein),
Linguistic Analysis 25-3/4, 1995, 146-180.
- "Negation and Negative Concord in Middle Dutch," in Danielle Forget, Paul
Hirschbuehler, France Martineau and Maria-Luisa Rivero, eds., Negation and
Polarity: Syntax and Semantics. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 1997,139-158.
- "On the (non)loss of polarity sensitivity: Dutch ooit", in Richard.
M. Hogg and Linda van Bergen, eds., Historical Linguistics 1995, vol.
2, John Benjamins Publishing Co., Amsterdam-Philadelphia, 1998, 101-114.
- "Corpus Study of Negative Polarity Items," in IV-V Jornades de corpus
lingüístics 1996-1997, IULA, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 1998,
67-86.
- "Blocking Effects and Polarity Sensitivity," in: JFAK. Essays dedicated
to Johan van Benthem on the Occasion of his 50th Birthday.
Vossiuspers/Amsterdam University Press, 1999. [13 pp.]
- "Blocking Effects in the Expression of Negation." Leuvense
Bijdragen/Leuven Contributions in Linguistics and Philology, 88-3/4, 1999,
403-423.
- "Negative Polarity Items: Triggering, Scope and C-Command", in Laurence R.
Horn and Yasuhiko Kato, eds., Negation and Polarity. Semantic and Syntactic
Perspectives., Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000, 123-154.
- "Compositionality of meaning," in: Geert Booij, Christian Lehmann, Joachim
Mugdan, eds., Morphologie/Morphology. Ein internationales Handbuch zur
Flexion und Wortbildung/An international Handbook on Inflection and
Word-Formation., Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York, 2000, 851-857.
- "Scalarity and polarity: A Study of Scalar Adverbs as Polarity Items"
(with Hotze Rullmann) in: Jack Hoeksema, Hotze Rullmann, Victor
Sanchez-Valencia and Ton van der Wouden, eds., Perspectives on Negation and
Polarity Items, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2001, 129-171.
- "Rapid Change Among Expletive Polarity Items" in: Laurel J. Brinton, ed.,
Historical Linguistics 1999. Selected papers from the 14th International
Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9-13 August 1999, John
Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 2001, 175-186.
- "Polarity-sensitive Scalar Particles in Early Modern and Present-Day
Dutch" in: Belgian Journal of Linguistics 16, 2002, 53-64.
- "Verb movement in Dutch present-participle clauses," in: Germania et
alia: A Linguistic Webschrift for Hans den Besten, ed. Jan Koster and Henk
van Riemsdijk, 2003. Http://www.let.rug.nl/~koster/DenBesten/Hoeksema.pdf.
- "Partitivity, degrees and polarity", in: Verbum, Tome XXV, No. 1,
2003, 81-96.
- "Chapter One: Theory of the Lexicon," In: Katamba, F. (ed.), Morphology: Critical Concepts
in Linguistics, Routledge, London/New York, 2004, 184-213. [= Chapter 1 of Hoeksema 1984]
- "In days, weeks, months, years, ages: a class of temporal negative
polarity items", in: Dicky Gilbers and Petra Hendriks, Rejected Papers:
Feestbundel voor Ron van Zonneveld, Groningen, 2005.
- "Cumulative Effects in the Evaluation of Pseudo-Gapping", in: Jennifer
Spenader and Petra Hendriks, Proceedings of the Workshop on Cross-Modular
Approaches to Ellipsis, ESSLLI 2005, Edinburgh, 45-48.
- "Pseudogapping: its syntactic analysis and cumulative effects on its acceptability",
Research on Language and Computation, vol. 4, no. 4, 2006, 335-352.
- "Dutch ENIG: From nonveridicality to downward entailment", in: Hedde Zeijlstra and
Jan-Philipp Soehn, eds., Proceedings of the Workshop on Negation and Polarity,
Sonderforschungsbereich 441, University of Tübingen, 2007, 8-15.
- "Focus particles inside prepositional phrases: A comparison of Dutch, English, and
German," (with Gosse Bouma and Petra Hendriks), Journal of Comparative Germanic
Linguistics, vol. 10, no. 1, 2007, 1-24.
- "Parasitic Licensing of Negative Polarity Items", Journal of Comparative Germanic
Linguistics, vol. 10, no. 3, 2007, 163-182.
- "The emergence of particle clusters in Dutch: Grammaticalization under adverse
conditions", in: Elena Seoane and Maria José Lopez-Couso (eds.), in
collaboration with Teresa Fanego, Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization,
John Benjamins, Amsterdam and Philadelphia, 2008, 131-149.
- "Just for the hell of it: A comparison of two taboo-term constructions" (with Donna Jo Napoli),
Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 44, No. 02, 2008, 347-378.
- "There is no number effect in the licensing of negative polarity items: a reply to
Guerzoni and Sharvit", in Linguistics and Philosophy 31-4,2008, 397-407.
- "The swarm alternation revisited", in: Erhard Hinrichs and John Nerbonne, eds.,
Theory and Evidence in Semantics, CSLI, Stanford, 2009, 53-80.
- "Jespersen Recycled" in: Elly van Gelderen, ed., Cyclical Change, John Benjamins,
Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 2009, 15-34.
- "The grammatical versatility of taboo terms" (with Donna Jo Napoli) Studies in Language vol. 33, no. 3,
2009, 612-643.
Dutch publications
- "Toekenning van syllabestructuren," Tabu 9-2, 1979, 29-30.
- "Zinsbepalingen en V-Raisingskomplementen", Tabu 10-2, 1980, 17-25.
- "Verbale verstrengeling ontstrengeld", Spektator 10-3, 1980/81,
221-249.
- "Twee theorieën over samenstellende afleiding", GLOT 4-2/3, 1981,
169-178.
- "Enkele stellingen omtrent metrische representaties", Tabu 12,
1982, 86-95.
- "Betrekkelijke voornaamwoorden met meerdere antecendenten", Tabu
12, 1982, 1-7.
- "De kongruentie van relatieve voornaamwoorden met hun antecedent",
Tabu 12, 1982, 169-180.
- "Zwaarlijvig en breedgeschouderd", Tabu 13, 1983, 49-70.
- "Superlatieven", Tabu 13, 1983, 101-106.
- "Wanna do Contraction?", GLOT 6-2, 1983, 157-182.
- "Een autosegmentele theorie van het Nederlandse woordaccent" (with R.M.
van Zonneveld), Spektator 13-6, 1984/84, 450-472.
- "Wortels, stammen en de sjwa", Tabu 15, 1985, 150-153.
- "Monotonie en Superlatieven", C. Hoppenbrouwers, J. Houtman, I. Schuurman
and F. Zwarts, eds., Proeven van taalwetenschap, Nederlands Instituut
RUG, Groningen, 1986, 38-49.
- "Formele resultaten in de taalkunde: enkele kanttekeningen", C.
Hoppenbrouwers, I. Schuurman, R. van Zonneveld and F. Zwarts, eds.,
Syntaxis en Lexicon, Foris, Dordrecht, 1986, 7-12.
- "Partiële extrapositie van infinitiefkomplementen in het
Middelnederlands", in Tabu 20-3, 1990, 175-186.
- "Theoretische aspekten van partikelvooropplaatsing", in Tabu 21-1,
1991, 18-26.
- "Algemene kwantoren en de small-clause kwestie", Tabu 21-2, 1991,
77-85.
- "Nogmaals partikelvooropplaatsing", Tabu 21-3, 1991, 141-144.
- "Bevelende zinnen zonder polaire tegenhanger", H. Bennis and J.W. de
Vries, eds., De binnenbouw van het Nederlands. ICG-Publications,
Dordrecht, 1992, 125-131.
- "Tegenwoordig-deelwoordgroepen I: een merkwaardig randgeval", Tabu
23, no. 3, 1993, 171-174.
- "Tegenwoordig-deelwoordgroepen II: V1 patronen", Tabu 24-1, 1994,
1-5.
- "Bar en bijster: Een onderzoek naar twee polariteitsgevoelige adverbia"
(with Henny Klein), Gramma/TTT 3-2, 1994, 75-88.
- "Nevenschikking onder te", in Tabu 25-3, 1995, 156-157.
- "Aantekeningen bij ooit. Deel 1: Nog ooit versus ooit nog." Tabu
26-1, 1996, 3-16.
- "Zeg het met rozen: een vergelijking van drie idiomatische uitdrukkingen."
Tabu 26-3, 1996, 129-149.
- "De distributie van OOK MAAR en ZELFS MAAR, een corpusstudie." (with Hotze
Rullmann), Nederlandse Taalkunde 2-4, 1997, 281-317.
- "Negatief-polair moeten," Tabu 27-3, 1997, 95-112.
- "Ieder moment: Scalaire universele kwantificatie", Tabu
27-4, 1997, 161-170.
- "Adjectivale inflectie op -s: geen geval van transpositie", in E. Hoekstra
and C. Smits, eds., Morfologiedagen 1996, Cahiers van het Meertens
Instituut, no 10, 1998, Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam.
- "Corpusonderzoek naar negatief-polaire uitdrukkingen." Tabu 28-1,
1998, 1-52.
- "Een ondode kategorie: de genitief", Tabu 28-4, 1998, 162-167.
- "Iemand iets wijsmaken: irrealis en negatieve polariteit,"
Tabu 29-1, 1999, 37-42.
- "Velarisatie van /n/ in plat Hollands", in: Tabu, 29-2, 1999,
94-96.
- "Aantekeningen bij ooit, deel 2: de opkomst van niet-polair
ooit, in: Tabu 29-4, 1999, 147-172.
- "Ikke als default-nominatief", Tabu 30-1/2, 2000, 27-46.
- "Verplichte topicalisatie van kale enkelvouden: de feit is
dat-constructie", Tabu 30-3/4, 2000, 113-142.
- "X maar dan ook echt X! Emfatische reduplicerende nevenschikking"
Tabu 31-3/4, 2001, 119-140.
- "Hoegenaamd: van 1730 tot 2002. Eigenschappen en ontwikkelingsgang
van een bijzondere negatief-polaire uitdrukking" Tabu 32-1/2, 2002,
16-39.
- "Minimaliseerders in het standaard Nederlands" in: Tabu 32-3/4,
2002, 105-174.
- "In het minst: eigenschappen en ontwikkeling van een
negatief-polaire uitdrukking en de neergang van focus scrambling", in:
Tabu, vol. 33-1/2, 2003-2004, 27-50.
- "Nogmaals hoegenaamd", in Tabu, vol. 33-1/2, 2003-2004,
51-54.
- "Positief- en negatief-polaire bepalingen van graad: een empirisch onderzoek."
(with Dirk-Bart den Ouden), Tabu, vol. 34-3/4, 2005, 129-144.
- "Geen enkel." Tabu, vol. 34-3/4, 2005, 171-186.
- "De ontwikkelingsgang van het partikel best," Tabu 35-1/2, 2006,
59-78.
- "Parasitair gat zonder scrambling," Tabu 35-1/2, 2006, 79-80.
- "Hij zei van niet, maar knikte van ja: Distributie en diachronie van
bijwoorden van polariteit ingeleid door van", Tabu 35, 3-4, 2006, 135-158.
- "Agentiviteit van aspectueel eens," Tabu 35, 3-4, 2006, 159-162.
- "Heeeeele lange vocalen: een onderzoek naar emfatische rekking", (with Sandrien van
Ommen and Dicky Gilbers), Tabu, 36-1/2, 2007, 39-64.
- "Niet voor commentaar bereikbaar", Tabu 36-1/2, 2007, 85-88.
- "Van + bijwoord van polariteit: een geval van verplichte extrapositie?" Tabu,
37-1/2, 2008, 69-78.
- "Uitkijken, oppassen en opletten: een corpusonderzoek naar polaire gevoeligheid
en andere distributionele eigenschappen", Tabu 37-1/2, 2008, 79-110. [with Albert Oosterhof]
- "Distributieprofielen van negatief-polaire uitdrukkingen: een vergelijking van het Nederlands, Engels
en Duits", Tabu 37-3/4, 2008, 111-195.
Bookreviews and booknotes
- Gerald Gazdar, Ewan Klein and Geoffrey K. Pullum, eds., Order, Concord and
Constituency. Lingua 1984, 335-350.
- Hans Bennis and Frits Beukema, eds., Linguistics in the Netherlands 1985.
Language, 62-3, p. 705.
- Joachim Jacobs, Syntax und Semantik der Negation im Deutschen, Language,
63-2, p. 432.
- Fred Sommers, The Logic of Natural Language, Linguistic Analysis 17-1/2,
1987, 110-119.
- Harold D. Levin, Categorial Grammar and the Logical Form of
Quantification, International Studies in Philosophy XX/3, 1988, 131-132.
- Eric Reuland and Alice ter Meulen (eds.), The Representation of
(In)Definiteness, Language 65-1, 1989, 115-125.
- Uwe Reyle and Christian Rohrer, eds., Natural Language Parsing and
Linguistic Theories, Language 65, p. 437.
- Fred Weerman, The V2 Conspiracy, Language 66-2, 1990, 363-367.
- Gennaro Chierchia, Topics in the Syntax and Semantics of Infinitives and
Gerunds, Studies in Language 15-1, 234-247.
- Mark R. Baltin and Anthony S. Kroch (eds.), Alternative Conceptions of
Phrase Structure, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1989. Journal of
Literary Semantics XXI/1 (1992), 74-77.
- Greville Corbett, Gender. Cambridge University Press, 1993. Journal of
Literary Semantics, XXIII/1 (1994), 58-62.
- Jorun Hetland, Satzadverbien im Focus. Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen,
1992. Studien zur deutschen Grammatik 43, 116. Band, 3. Heft, 1994, 449-452.
- Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, Current Morphology. Linguistic Theory Guides.
Routledge, London, New York, 1992. Linguistics 33 (1995), 376-380.
- Jan Don et al., Inleiding in de generatieve morfologie; G. Booij and A.
van Santen, Morfologie: de woordstructuur van het Nederlands. Tijdschrift voor
Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 112-1 (1996), 76-79.
- Ljiljana Progovac, Negative and Positive Polarity: A Binding Approach.
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