CV Jack Hoeksema
Professor Emeritus at the University of Groningen
Education
1969-1975: Willem Lodewijk Gymnasium, Groningen
1975-1981: Dutch literature and linguistics, University of Groningen.
1982-1984: PhD study at the University of Groningen. PhD: December 20, 1984
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 visiting professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
From July 1, 1986 to June 30, 1990 assistant professor at the University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
From July 9 to August 4, 1989, visiting professor at the 1989 LSA Summer Institute of Linguistics, Tucson,
Arizona.
From January 1 to June 30, 1990, visiting scholar at the University of Groningen on a grant from NWO.
From July 29 to August 10, 1990
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, assistant professor at the University of
Groningen.
From January 1, 1992, associate professor at the University
of Groningen.
From January 1, 2003 - August 31, 2023, full professor at the University of Groningen.
From September 1, 2005 to June 30, 2006, Julian and Virginia Cornell Visiting Professor at Swarthmore College.
Research grants:
Dissertation grant from ZWO (precursor of NWO), 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, PI Anthony S. Kroch)
Pionier grant from NWO, 1992-1997, project Reflections of Logical Patterns in Language Structure and Language Use
at the University of Groningen.
Grant for CLARIAH project SPOD: Syntactic Profiler of Dutch. [2017-2018]
Courses taught:
Undergraduate level:
Introduction to linguistics, linguistic typology, semantics, morphology, introduction to Dutch syntax, introduction to Government-Binding theory, psycholinguistics, Middle Dutch, historical phonology, corpuslinguistics, introduction to philological methods, linguistic methodology.
Graduate level:
Introductory syntax, intermediate syntax, introduction to formal semantics, algebraic linguistics, seminar in morphology, seminar in Government-Binding syntax, seminar in West-Germanic syntax, seminar on boolean semantics, seminar on generalized
quantifiers, seminar on anaphora in discourse, seminar on ellipsis, courses on categorial morphology, course on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, diachronic syntax, negative
polarity items, corpus methods in diachronic linguistics, history of linguistics, seminar on metaphors, MA course on linguistics in secondary education.
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 - 2013.
- 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.
- Member of the editorial advisory board, Open Linguistics (De Gruyter)
- Advisory editor, Oxford surveys in semantics and pragmatics.
- Reviewer for journals: 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, Linguisticae Investigationes, IBM Journal of Research and Development, Syntax, GLOT, Tabu, Taal en Tongval, Probus, Phonology Yearbook, Diachronica, Journal of Computing and Information Technology, Language Acquisition, Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Language Sciences, Australian Journal of Linguistics, Journal of historical syntax, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Nederlandse Taalkunde, Internationale Neerlandistiek.
- Reviewer for conferences: WCCFL, SALT, Formal Grammar, DIGS, Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Linguistics in the Netherlands, Olomouc linguistics colloquium,
Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax, Tabudag
- Reviewer for publishers: The University of Chicago Press,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, The MIT-Press, Mouton-de Gruyter, Oxford University Press, John Benjamins,
CSLI
- Reviewer for funding agencies: NWO (the Dutch Organisation for Research), NRF (the South-African research foundation), the Swiss National Science Foundation,
FWO (The Flemish Research Foundation, the American Association of University Women, the Israel Science Foundation, the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust and the National Science Foundation.
- Member of the Review Committee of the Institut für deutsche Sprache, Mannheim.
- Member of search committees at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Groningen, Leiden University and Utrecht University.
- Occasional referee for tenure committees
- Expert linguistic advice in legal matters
- 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 2018 NWO Vici committee
- Member of the advisory board of the Integrated Language Bank of the Dutch Institute of Lexicology (2001-2009)
- Member of the advisory board of the INT (Institute of the Dutch Language)
- Outside examiner for the University of Edinburgh, University of Ghent, University College London and Swarthmore College
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)
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)
- Erik-Jan Smits, Acquiring Quantification (U of Groningen, 2010)
- Karin Beijering, Expressions of Epistemic Modality in Mainland Scandinavian
(U of Groningen, 2012)
- Ankelien Schippers, Variation and Change in Germanic Long-distance Dependencies
(U of Groningen, 2012)
- Milada Walková, The aspectual function of particles in phrasal verbs.
(U of Groningen, 2013)
- Pavel Rudnev, Dependency and discourse-configurationality. A study of Avar.
(U of Groningen, 2015)
- Elizabeth Heredia Murillo, The semantics and L1 acquisition of scalar (focus) particles: the case of Spanish (ni) siquiera and incluso. (U of Groningen, 2023)
- Lourens Visser, Adverbs of Degree in Early West Germanic. (U of Groningen, 2024)
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. Reprinted 2014 by Routledge, London.
- 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.
- Noordelijke Polyfonie, special issue of Tabu, dedicated to Jan Koster,
edited by Jan-Wouter Zwart and Jack Hoeksema, 2010.
- Black Book: A Festschrift in honor of Frans Zwarts, edited by Jack Hoeksema and Dicky Gilbers. University of Groningen, 2014.
- Nuts gone flake. Liber amicorum for Dicky Gilbers, edited by Jack Hoeksema and Bart Hollebrandse. University of Groningen, 2022.
- De negatief-polaire uitdrukkingen van het Nederlands: Inleiding en lexicon. University of Groningen Press & Kleine Uil, Groningen, 2024.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Negative and Positive Polarity Items: An Investigation of the Interplay of Lexical Meaning and
Global Conditions on Expression. In: Laurence R. Horn, ed., The Expression of Negation, Mouton de Gruyter,
Berlin, 2010, 187-224.
- Feature percolation in the Dutch possessive In: Jan-Wouter Zwart and Mark de Vries (eds.),
Structure Preserved: Studies in syntax for Jan Koster, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2010, 167-174.
- Discontinuous conjunction of nominal modifiers, Linguistic Analysis 36, 1-4, 2010, 129-142.
- Dutch ENIG: from nonveridicality to downward entailment. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory,
28(4):837�859.
- Variation in long distance dependencies In: Frans Gregersen, Jeffrey K. Parrott and Pia Quist
(eds.), Language Variation - European Perspectives III: Selected papers from the 5th International Conference
on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 5), John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia 2011, 123-134. (with
Ankelien Schippers)
- Discourse scalarity: the case of Dutch helemaal, Journal of Pragmatics 43(11), 2011, 2810-2825.
- Looking at Middle English through the mirror of Anglo-Norman in Pierre Larrivee and Richard Ingham, editors,
The Evolution of Language. Beyond the Jespersen cycle. De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin/Boston, 2011, 165-178.
- Diachronic changes in long-distance dependencies: The case of Dutch In: Ans van Kemenade & Nynke de
Haas, eds., 2012, Historical Linguistics 2009. Selected papers from the 19th International Conference on Historical Linguistics,
Nijmegen 10-14 August 2009, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 155-170 (with Ankelien Schippers).
- Elative Compounds in Dutch: Types and Historical Development. in Guido Oebel, ed., Crosslinguistic comparison
of intensified adjectives and adverbs, vol. 2, 97-142, Verlag Dr. Kovač, Hamburg, 2012.
- On the natural history of negative polarity items. Linguistic Analysis, 38(1/2), 2012, 3-33.
- Literal and nonliteral meaning in placename idioms. Yearbook of Phraseology vol. 3, 2012, 127-142.
(with Manfred Sailer)
- Processing polarity: ERP evidence for differences between positive and negative polarity, Neuropsychologia, 51(1), 2013, 132-141
(with Anna Yurchenko, Dirk-Bart den Ouden, Olga Dragoy, John C.J. Hoeks, Laurie A. Stowe)
- Polarity items in Strawsonian contexts - A comparison. In: Eva Csipak, Regine Eckardt, Mingya Liu & Manfred Sailer, eds.,
Beyond 'Any' and 'Ever': New Explorations in Negative Polarity Sensitivity., De Gruyter-Mouton, Berlin, 2013, 47-78.
- Immediate Future Readings of universal quantifier constructions. In: Ritsuko Kikusawa & Lawrence A. Reid (eds.),
Historical Linguistics 2011. Selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, 25-30 July 2011,
John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 2013, 227-241.
- Measuring variation in perception of ambiguity: A magnitude estimation investigation of Netherlands and Belgian Dutch, by Laurie A. Stowe, Robert Hartsuiker, Magda De Vos and Jack Hoeksema, in Jack Hoeksema and Dicky Gilbers, eds., Black Book: A Festschrift in honor of Frans Zwarts, 311-329. Groningen: University of Groningen, 2014.
- The Middle Dutch negative clitic: Status, position and disappearance. Lingua 147 (2014), 50-68.
- Sluicing in Dutch: A Problem for PF-deletion approaches, In : Skase, 11(2), 2014, 30-41.
- In Hülle und Fülle: Quantification at a distance in German, Dutch and English. In: Martijn Wieling, Gosse Bouma & Gertjan van Noord (eds.), From semantics to dialectometry, 123-133. Groningen: University of Groningen, 2016.
- Polarity licensing and intervention by conjunction. In H. Reckman, L. L. S. Cheng, M. Hijzelendoorn, &
R. Sybesma (Eds.), Crossroads Semantics: Computation, experiment and grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishers, 2017, 93-106.
- NEG-Raising and long-distance licensing of negative polarity items. In: Debra Ziegeler & Zhiming Bao, eds., Negation and Contact. With special focus on Singapore English.. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2017,33-61.
- Not that I know of: a polarity-sensitive construction. Linguistics 55(6), 2017, 1281-1310.
- Positive polarity predicates. Linguistics, 56(2), 361-400.
- Minimizers in Azerbaijani from a comparative perspective. By Venera Suleymanova and Jack Hoeksema. Folia Linguistica 52(1), 2018, 177-211.
- Taboo terms and their grammar, in Keith Allen (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019, 160-179.
- Degree Resultatives as Second-Order Constructions. By
Jack Hoeksema, Donna Jo Napoli. 2019. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 31(3), 225-297.
- Derivational networks in Dutch. In Livia Körtvélyessy, Alexandra Bagasheva & Pavol Štekauer, eds., Derivational networks across languages, 137-145. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2020.
- On the Dutch temporal adverbial goed en wel. By Jack Hoeksema and Ton van der Wouden. In: Linguistics in the Netherlands vol. 37, 2020, 90-102.
- SPOD: Syntactic Profiler of Dutch. By Gertjan van Noord, Jack Hoeksema, Peter Kleiweg, and Gosse Bouma. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal, vol. 10, 2020, 129-145.
- Verbs of deception, point of view and polarity. In Stefan
Müller & Nurit Melnik (eds.), Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar Online (Frankfurt/Main), 26-46. Frankfurt/Main: University Library, 2021. DOI: 10.21248/hpsg.2021.2.
- Adverbs of degree in early Middle Dutch: Documentation and Development, by Lourens Visser & Jack Hoeksema. Nederlandse Taalkunde 27(2), 2022, 198-228.
- Syntactic Profiles in Secondary School Writing Using PaQu and SPOD, by Jack Hoeksema, Kees de Glopper & Gertjan van Noord. In: CLARIN: The Infrastructure for Language Resources ed. by Darja Fišer & Andreas Witt, 691-707. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.
- Elative Compounds. In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology (eds. P. Ackema, S. Bendjaballah, E. Bonet and A. Fábregas), 1-23. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2023. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119693604.morphcom027
- Prosodic disambiguation and the scope ambiguity of sentences with negation and disjunction in Dutch. By Angeliek van Hout, Jelle Kisjes, Antoine Cochard, Máté Gulás, Jack Hoeksema, Elena Pagliarini, Mieke Sarah Slim, Annika van Wijk, Balázs Surányi. Tabu, special issue 2024, 329-365.
- If I had half a brain: Polarity sensitive idioms in conditional clauses. In: Ryan Bochnak, Eva Csipak, Lisa Matthewson, Marcin Morzycki, and Daniel K. E. Reisinger (eds.) The title of this volume is shorter than its contributions are allowed to be: Papers in honour of Hotze Rullmann, 171-182. Vancouver, BC: UBCOPL, 2024.
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.
- Iets over werkwoordsvolgorden. Tabu 11(4), 1981, 91-94.
- 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.
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(with Henny Klein), Gramma/TTT 3-2, 1994, 75-88.
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Tabu 26-3, 1996, 129-149.
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ooit, in: Tabu 29-4, 1999, 147-172.
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dat-constructie, Tabu 30-3/4, 2000, 113-142.
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negatief-polaire uitdrukking en de neergang van focus scrambling, in:
Tabu, vol. 33-1/2, 2003-2004, 27-50.
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(with Dirk-Bart den Ouden), Tabu, vol. 34-3/4, 2005, 129-144.
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59-78.
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bijwoorden van polariteit ingeleid door van, Tabu 35, 3-4, 2006, 135-158.
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Ommen and Dicky Gilbers), Tabu, 36-1/2, 2007, 39-64.
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37-1/2, 2008, 69-78.
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en Duits, Tabu 37-3/4, 2008, 111-195.
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Noordelijke polyfonie, special issue dedicated to Jan Koster, Tabu 38(1/4), 121-132.
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- Keus van bijwoorden van hoge graad: Een vergelijking van studenten met VMBO-leerlingen(with
Jan Korterink), Tabu 39(1/2), 2011, 23-37.
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Tabu 40(3/4), 2012, 89-109.
- Bij de vleet: een kwantor op afstand, Tabu 40(3/4), 2012, 153-165.
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Neerlandistiek in Beeld, Stichting Neerlandistiek VU Amsterdam - Nodus Publikationen Münster, 2013, 27-36.
- De plaats van het voorzetselvoorwerp. Nederlandse Taalkunde 19(2), 2014, 221-244.
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- Commentaar op: Directionele PP's als predicaten (of niet). Nederlandse Taalkunde 19(2), 2014, 276-281.
- De opkomst van aan als verbindend element in maatnomenconstructies. In: Freek van de Velde, Hans Smessaert, Frank van Eynde en Sara Verbrugge, red., Patroon en Argument. Een dubbelfeestbundel bij het emeritaat van William van Belle en Joop van der Horst. Universitaire Pers Leuven, 2014, 421-432.
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- Langeafstandsverplaatsing in het Nederlands, Engels en Duits: De sandwich ontleed. By Ankelien Schippers and Jack Hoeksema. Nederlandse Taalkunde 26(1), 2021, 41-78.
- Rillen van angst en blaken van zelfvertrouwen: Emotietermen in constructie met causatief van. Nederlandse Taalkunde 27(1), 2022, 105-134.
- Dirk Geeraerts en de diachrone semantiek. Nederlandse Taalkunde 27(2), 2022, 175-185.
- Semantische harmonie en disharmonie. In: Jack Hoeksema & Bart Hollebrandse, Nuts gone flake. Liber amicorum voor Dicky Gilbers, 69-84. Groningen: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 2022.
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taalgebied, Amsterdam, 2000, in: Tabu 30-3/4, 2000, 186-188.
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