Nederlandse Taalkunde - Volume 21, Issue 1, 2016

Abstract Waar is je velo? Buiten staan. On fragment answers with infinitives in Maldegem dialect This paper describes the properties of a construction in a specific Flemish dialect, in which infinitives are used in fragment answers in contexts where this would be unacceptable in Standard Dutch or other varieties. Questions such as Waar is mijn bril? ‘Where are my glasses?’ and Waar is je velo? ‘Where is your bicy Read More

Abstract The ontological status of the dependent verb-first construction in Dutch Dependent verb-first clauses have received a fair amount of interest from a functionalist perspective. In this paper, I argue that their conceived unity as a grammatical construction might be overstated. I do so on the basis of both categorical and probabilistic differences in the distributions of the various types that I discern. The shared functio Read More

Abstract Dependent V1 clauses: Conditional, contrastive, concessive - functional-typological and constructional perspectives Responding to the preceding article by Beekhuizen, the present contribution comments from a functional-typological and constructional perspective on Beekhuizen’s opinion that the V1-order is not a “strong” linguistic sign in Dutch. Beekhuizen’s categorization of the different types of subordinate V1-cl Read More

Abstract Time to fell the syntactic tree. Long-distance dependencies without transformations or filler gaps Long-distance dependencies belong to the most controversial challenges in linguistics. These patterns seem to contain constituents that have left their original position in a sentence and that have landed in a different place. A typical example is the relative clause the person I have talked to yesterday, in which the direct o Read More

Abstract Taalportaal. A new scientific grammar of Dutch and Frisian (and Afrikaans) We describe the Taalportaal, a new comprehensive on-line scientific grammar of Dutch and Frisian.