Dissertation
Papers
(2025) 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Variability in agreement in two types of Dutch dialects (old manuscript, now superseded by Chapter 2 of my PhD thesis)
Recent presentations
On the headedness of Dutch quantitative 'er': peeling off structure and long head movement. Syntax Circle, Utrecht, September 2025.
Is quantitative 'er' a head? Insights from ellipsis interactions. LiME lecture. Meertens Institute, April 2025 (slides)
'Er'-deletion under gapping and the nature of quantitative 'er'. Grote Taaldag, Utrecht, January 2025 (handout)
Complementiser agreement as subject doubling: the view from Brabantic. Oberseminar English Linguistics, University of Göttingen, January 2025 (slides)
Voegwoordvervoeging als subjectverdubbeling. Het perspectief uit Brabant. Dag van de Nederlandse Spraakkunst, December 2024 (slides)
Right Node Raising in Frisian. Taalkundedei. With Fenna Bergsma, October 2024 (email me for the handout)
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)
See my CV for a complete list of presentations
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
(2024) 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.)