Linguistics in the Netherlands 2008

Editors
Marjo van Koppen | Utrecht University
Bert Botma | Leiden University
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The 39th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 2nd, 2008. The aim of the annual meetings is to provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.

At this year’s meeting, 91 papers were presented, of which 24 were submitted to the present volume. This volume contains a selection of these papers, which present an overview of current research in a variety of fields in linguistics.

[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 25] 2008.  190 pp.
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Table of Contents
Foreword
v
Contributors
vii–viii
Articles
Pauses as indicators in story structure (Benin)
Marjolijn Grool
1–12
Predicting intelligibility and perceived linguistic distance by means of the Levenshtein algorithm
Karin Beijering, Charlotte Gooskens and Wilbert Heeringa
13–24
The Early Surinamese Creoles in the Suriname Creole Archive (SUCA)
Margot van den Berg and Adrienne Bruyn
25–36
VP-Internal DPs and Right-Dislocation in Zulu
Leston Buell
37–49
How universal is the Universal Grinder?
Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng, Jenny Doetjes and Rint Sybesma
50–62
Proper names used as Common Nouns in Belgian Dutch and German
Karen De Clercq
63–74
Preposition stranding in development
Peter Coopmans and Rianne Schippers
75–86
Preliminary remarks on object-marking in Makalero
Juliette Huber
87–96
Language Attrition in Dutch Emigrants in Anglophone Canada: Internally or externally-induced change?
Merel Keijzer
97–108
NPI-licensing and dependent tense in Serbian
Nataša Milicević
109–120
Czech modal existential wh-constructions as vP-level free relatives
Radek Simík
121–132
Intensive plurality: Hausa pluractional verbs and degree semantics
Kateřina Součková and Malami Buba
133–144
Mutual intelligibility of Chinese dialects tested functionally
Chaoju Tang and Vincent J. van Heuven
145–156
The encoding of adjectives
Annemarie Verkerk and Sander Lestrade
157–168
The placement of bare plural subjects in Dutch
Jorrig Vogels and Monique Lamers
169–180
Subjects

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General