Verbs (V), nouns (N), adjectives (A) and prepositions (P) constitute the four major word
classes. The present study deals with nouns and their projections (noun phrases). The …

The Syntax of Dutch will be published in at least seven volumes in the period 2012-2016
and aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It …

The volume Adpositions and Adpositional Phrases discusses the internal make-up and the
distribution of adpositional phrases. Topics that are covered include complementation and …

The central theme of the dissertation is an intriguing case of word order variation within the
verbal phrase in modern Standard Dutch. In the subordinate clause, verbal phrases …

We examine a case of word order variation where speakers choose between two near-
synonymous constructions partly on the basis of the processing complexity of the …

All humans have language. It is a part of our biology (Lenneberg 1964). Compared to the
language of other animals, human language is much more complex in how meanings are …

This article is a rejoinder to the various reviews of the Syntax of Dutch (2012-2016) that have
appeared in this and earlier volumes of Nederlandse Taalkunde. It focuses especially on …

This paper investigates the determinants of word order variation in presentative sentences
such as Er zijn geen getto's in Brussel “There are no ghettoes in Brussels”: in specific …

The present paper aims at refining current knowledge about the so-called complexity
principle as one of the driving forces in Dutch constituent ordering as well as re-evaluating …

This work investigates the application of a measure of surprisal to modeling a grammatical
variation phenomenon between near-synonymous constructions. We investigate a particular …