Hi!
I am a lecturer in (Dutch) linguistics at Leiden University and Utrecht University. Previously, I was a postdoc in the research group on Syntax, Morphology and Variability at the University of Potsdam. I got my PhD at Leiden University.
I am interested in syntactic and morphosyntactic variation. I mainly work on Dutch and its dialects, and closely related languages. Some topics I have worked on or am currently researching are complementiser agreement, agreement alternations, the organisation of phi-features, word order in imperatives, Right Node Raising, and clitic doubling.
News
New publication! Complementiser agreement is clitic doubling: evidence from intervention effects in Frisian and Limburgian in NLLT.
Recent and upcoming talks:
Complementiser agreement in Limburg: grammatical, social, and geographical factors of variation. Limburg as a linguistic laboratory. With Stef Grondelaers and Marjo van Koppen, September 2024 (slides)
Right Node Raising in Frisian. Taalkundedei. With Fenna Bergsma, October 2024
Dag van de Nederlandse Spraakkunst. Gent, December 2024
Oberseminar English Linguistics, University of Göttingen, January 2025
LiME lecture. Meertens Institute, April 2025
Contact info:
a.h.j.vanalem at uu dot nl
a.h.j.van.alem at hum dot leidenuniv dot nl