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Dissertation
Papers
(Accepted) Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling: evidence from intervention effects in Frisian and Limburgian. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
(2023) with Johannes Hein, Cory Bill, Imke Driemel, Aurore Gonzalez, Ivona Ilić, and Paloma Jeretič. Negative concord without Agree: Insights from German, Dutch, and English child languages. Languages 8(3), special collection on Errors of commission in child language.
(2023). First conjunct complementiser agreement and the structure of coordination. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics (8)1, special collection on Multivaluation in agreement.
(2021) with Sjef Barbiers. Poor weak het 'it' and agreement patterns in pronominal clefts. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 53(2).
(2021) Licensing imperative subjects without an imperative operator: evidence from word order in West Germanic imperatives. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 24.
(2020) Complementizer agreement is not allomorphy: A reply to Weisser (2019). Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 5(1):44.
(2017) Prepositional numerals and spurious determiners. LingUU Journal, 1.1.
Variability in agreement in two types of Dutch dialects (old manuscript, now superseded by Chapter 2 of my PhD thesis)
Invited or colloquium talks
With Marjo van Koppen. The effect of A-bar contexts on A-agreement: the case of complementizer agreement. Move & Agree Forum, McGill/UBC, 31 May-4 June 2021.
Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling. Intervention effects and beyond. Grammar & Cognition lunch meeting, University of Amsterdam, 9 October 2020.
Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling. A uniform analysis of intervention effects. Syntax interface lectures, Utrecht University, 6 February 2020. slides
Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling: Evidence from intervention effects. ComSyn, Leiden University, 26 September 2019.
Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling: Evidence from intervention effects. Clitics seminar, University of Leipzig, 19 June 2019.
Anti-agreement on complementizers in non-standard varieties of West-Germanic. SynSem Colloquium, University of Potsdam, 28 May 2019.
Word order and person marking in West-Germanic imperatives. Syntax seminar, University of Groningen, 19 April 2018. Handout
With Sjef Barbiers. The case of Dutch and its dialects. An inventory. Workshop on case-impoverished Germanic, Lund University, 6 October 2017.
Conference presentations
With Johannes Hein, Cory Bill, Imke Driemel, Aurore Gonzalez, Ivona Ilić, and Paloma Jeretič. Negative concord in Dutch, English, and German child language: a corpus study. Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW) 35, University of Chicago, 14-15 October 2022.
Reinstating the clausal analysis of first conjunct agreement: evidence from complementiser agreement. Agreement in multivaluation constructions, Goethe University Frankfurt, 19-20 May 2021. Handout
Intervention effects on complementizer agreement: Revisiting the Agree vs. PF debate (speed session talk). Online CamCoS 9 New, Newcastle University, 8-11 September 2020. Slides
Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling. A uniform analysis of intervention effects (alternate talk). Virtual GLOW 43, Humboldt University Berlin, 8-20 April 2020. Slides
With Sjef Barbiers. Poor weak 't (it) and the syntax of pronominal clefts. Grote Taaldag 2020, Utrecht University, 31 January 2020.
3 puzzles in Frisian agreement. Conference on Frisian linguistics, Fryske Akademy, 25 October 2019. Slides
Agreement alternations and Defective Probes in Dutch
Talk at ConSOLE XXVII, Humboldt University Berlin, 21-23 February 2019 & EDSW IX, University of Glasgow, 22-23 March 2019. Handout
Poster at DISCO, University of Leipzig, 16-17 April 2019 & GLOW, University of Oslo, 7-11 May 2019.
Position Dependent Agreement in Dutch as a result of Defective Probes. Grote Taaldag 2019, Utrecht University, 2 February 2019. Handout
(Non-)canonical word orders in West-Germanic imperatives. Workshop on non-canonical imperatives, Humboldt University Berlin, 25 May 2018. Handout
Word order and person marking in West-Germanic imperatives. CamCos 7, University of Cambridge, 11 May 2018. Handout
Move "that" to the left! On topicalization in imperatives. Grote Taaldag 2018, Utrecht University, 3 February 2018. Handout
Variability in agreement in two types of Dutch dialects. TWIST Student Conference for Linguistics, Leiden University, 22 April 2017.
With Ying Liu and Hanna de Vries. Non-quantificational distributivity with HAVE-predicates. Workshop on Co-Distributivity, CNRS Paris, 23 February 2017.
Edited volumes
ConSOLE XXVIII: Proceedings of the 28th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (29-31 January 2020, Universitat Pompeu Fabra). With Mirella De Sisto, Elisabeth J. Kerr, and Joanna Wall.
ConSOLE XXVII: Proceedings of the 27th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (21-23 February 2019, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). With Mirella De Sisto, Elisabeth J. Kerr, and Joanna Wall.
ConSOLE XXVI: Proceedings of the 26th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (14-16 February 2018, UCL London). With Anastasiia Ionova and Cora Pots.
Outreach
Radio interview on dialects and linguistics for NPO Radio 1 (link) [in Dutch].
(2022) 'Ja' en 'nee' zeggen in het dialect. In M. van Oostendorp, S. Wolff (ed.), Het dialectendoeboek: de schatkamer van 90 jaar Meertens Instituut (pp. 15-19). Sterck & De Vreese.
Beter is er licht! Blog post on Neerlandistiek.nl, 7 july 2018 [in Dutch]. The Dutch newspaper Nederlands Dagblad wrote an article based on my blog post, which can be read in full here [also in Dutch]. I also gave a radio interview about this research for Groot Nieuws Radio.
Data
I have collected data on Dutch dialects and other varieties of West Germanic, on the following phenomena: V2 imperatives; verbal agreement; complementizer agreement. Let me know if you are interested in the looking at the data for your research. (Click here for a picture of me doing fieldwork.)