In Dutch, a ditransitive verb can take two alternating patterns (“the dative alternation”): the Double Object Construction (DOC) (‘Jan geeft het meisje een boek’) and the prepositional construction (POC) (‘Jan geeft een boek aan het meisje’). The choice of one of both constructions is associated with multiple discourse-pragmatic factors. In German, however, the POC is ungrammatical with a verb such as geben‚ ‘to give‘: ‘Jan gibt ein Buch *[an das Mädchen]’. This article reports on two sentence rating experiments (acceptability judgments) to test whether Dutch learners of German transfer their preferences about the dative alternation to the ditransitive construction in German. If no transfer were involved, (proficient) learners of L2 German ...
The vulnerability of the syntax–semantics interface in simultaneous bilingual first language acquisi...
Frisian and Dutch both have a direct speech reporting construction and an indirect speech reporting ...
My PhD thesis deals with the dative causee in German and Dutch causative constructions with the auxi...
In Dutch, a ditransitive verb can take two alternating patterns (“the dative alternation”): the Doub...
The syntactic structure of main and subordinate clauses is determined to a considerable extent by ve...
ith a large number of quite diverse Dutch verbs, the language user has a choice to express the objec...
In semantic studies of argument structure alternations as well as in recent psycholinguistic researc...
The results of two self-paced reading experiments are reported, which investigated the on-line proce...
In this discussion note, we offer some thoughts on the relation between explanation and the extensiv...
Ditransitive constructions constitute a central topic in Construction Grammar (Goldberg 1992 & 2019;...
This paper discusses the role of cognitive factors in language change; specifically, it investigates...
Many continental West Germanic dialects show so-called ‘Einheitsplural’, i.e. the phenomenon that ve...
This paper reports on a corpus-based investigation of the verb geben in two alternating ditransitive...
Ditransitive constructions constitute a central topic in Construction Grammar (Goldberg 1992 & 2019;...
While English, Dutch and French mainly resort to neutral alignment (e.g. double object constructions...
The vulnerability of the syntax–semantics interface in simultaneous bilingual first language acquisi...
Frisian and Dutch both have a direct speech reporting construction and an indirect speech reporting ...
My PhD thesis deals with the dative causee in German and Dutch causative constructions with the auxi...
In Dutch, a ditransitive verb can take two alternating patterns (“the dative alternation”): the Doub...
The syntactic structure of main and subordinate clauses is determined to a considerable extent by ve...
ith a large number of quite diverse Dutch verbs, the language user has a choice to express the objec...
In semantic studies of argument structure alternations as well as in recent psycholinguistic researc...
The results of two self-paced reading experiments are reported, which investigated the on-line proce...
In this discussion note, we offer some thoughts on the relation between explanation and the extensiv...
Ditransitive constructions constitute a central topic in Construction Grammar (Goldberg 1992 & 2019;...
This paper discusses the role of cognitive factors in language change; specifically, it investigates...
Many continental West Germanic dialects show so-called ‘Einheitsplural’, i.e. the phenomenon that ve...
This paper reports on a corpus-based investigation of the verb geben in two alternating ditransitive...
Ditransitive constructions constitute a central topic in Construction Grammar (Goldberg 1992 & 2019;...
While English, Dutch and French mainly resort to neutral alignment (e.g. double object constructions...
The vulnerability of the syntax–semantics interface in simultaneous bilingual first language acquisi...
Frisian and Dutch both have a direct speech reporting construction and an indirect speech reporting ...
My PhD thesis deals with the dative causee in German and Dutch causative constructions with the auxi...