1.1 Setting This study is a corpus-based investigation into the (frequency of the) functions of
the English imperative, those of the Dutch imperative, the (dis) similarities between both …

This article gives a unified semantic analysis of the various uses of the Dutch discourse
marker eigenlijk. Eigenlijk is analyzed as involving implicit assumptions of the speaker about …

This article examines the imperative of say as a pragmatic marker in English and Dutch.
Present-day say and zeg 'say'are contrasted on the basis of comparable corpus data. This …

Abstract Comparing ('t) schijnt to (zo) schijnt het (lit.'so seems it'), the parenthetical use of the
verb schijnen 'seem', we argue that ('t) schijnt is best analysed as an evidential particle …

The paper describes the syntactic annotation of the Spoken Dutch Corpus (“Corpus
Gesproken Nederlands” or CGN), the Dutch-Flemish project (1998-2003) aiming at the …

Starting a sentence in Dutch Page 1 Starting a sentence in Dutch Gerlof Bouma 29 November
2013 Page 2 Alfred Jodocus Kwak 1) Ik ben vandaag zo vrolijk. I am today so happy ‘I am so …

Good communicative skills are key to medical professionals; they may even be life saving.
Because of a lack of research on migrant doctors (rather than migrant patients) and on …

Have-doubling constructions closely resemble periphrastic perfect tense constructions but
have an additional, seemingly superfluous form of the verb have. Whilst these constructions …

Modal particles may show strong tendencies to cluster. In this paper, we investigate the
possibilities of giving a sound, quantitative, corpus-based foundation for this generalization …

There is still no dictionary of particles, although particle research is on-going This paper
seeks to explain why there is (still) no comprehensive descriptive work of the particles of …