Marijke De Belder
Biographic Data
| ID | 1498627 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marijke De Belder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marijke |
| FAMILY NAME | De Belder |
| SIGNATURE | DE BELDER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1929-5131 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Semi‐Lexicality
This paper is a state of the art paper on the linguistic phenomenon ‘semi‐lexicality’. We discuss what a semi‐lexical item is, namely an item which is typically considered to be from a lexical, open class (noun, verb, adjective) but which shows morphosyntactic and/or semantic properties that are usually associated with elements from functional, closed classes (quantifiers, auxiliaries, etc.), and its theoretical relevance for the field of generat…
Distributed Morphology
In this paper we aim to explain and illustrate the theory of Distributed Morphology for non-specialists. The goal is to take away any misunderstandings and to provide some illustrations of the workings of the theory, mainly on the basis of data from Dutch. Distributed Morphology is a theory of morphology that embraces the so-called Separation Hypothesis: derivation – the forming of a new word by some abstract operation – is separated from affixat…
N-to-D Movement within Compounds and Phrases
Noun-noun concatenations can differ along two parameters. They can be compounds, i.e., single words, or constructs, i.e., constituents, and they can have modificational non-heads or referential non-heads. Of the four logical possibilities, one was argued not to exist: compounds of which the non-head is referential were considered to be principally excluded. In this article, I argue that Dutch has compounds with a referential non-head. They resemb…
A split approach to the selection of allomorphs
In this article it is argued that the selection of allomorphs is distributed over two modules, viz. Vocabulary Insertion and Phonology. This is done on the basis of a case study of vowel length alternating allomorphs in Dutch. The data show a split pattern: some empirical domains can be fully captured by phonological principles. For these cases, the phonologically most optimal allomorph will be selected. In other empirical domains, phonological p…
The Root and Nothing but the Root
This article is an addendum to recent contributions on the structure of compounds in root-based frameworks, such as the Exoskeletal Model (Borer,:chap. 6, 2013b) or Distributed Morphology (Harley). It presents a subtype of Dutch primary compounds of which the nonhead is demonstrably a bare root. The nonhead of this type of compounding is fully acategorial. It does not contain categorial heads (i.e., little heads) and neither is it categorized oth…
How to Merge a Root
The main goal of this article is to show that four properties of roots can be derived in a principled manner from the theory of Merge. The properties in question are the following: (a) roots have no grammatical features, (b) roots have no syntactic category, (c) roots are defined structurally rather than lexically, and (d) roots are dominated by functional material (rather than the other way around). We argue that the first Merge operation in eac…
Against conflation
Collective mass affixes
Silence and the construct state in Dutch date expressions
In this paper, I examine two types of date expressions in Dutch. The first one contains an ordinal, the second one a cardinal. I have argued that the first construction contains both a silent preposition and a silent noun DAG ‘day’. As for the second construction, I have provided evidence for the fact that it also contains a silent noun DAG and that it instantiates a construct state. From a slightly broader perspective, then, these analyses provi…
The Root and Nothing but the Root
This article is an addendum to recent contributions on the structure of compounds in root-based frameworks, such as the Exoskeletal Model (Borer,:chap. 6, 2013b) or Distributed Morphology (Harley). It presents a subtype of Dutch primary compounds of which the nonhead is demonstrably a bare root. The nonhead of this type of compounding is fully acategorial. It does not contain categorial heads (i.e., little heads) and neither is it categorized oth…
How to Merge a Root
The main goal of this article is to show that four properties of roots can be derived in a principled manner from the theory of Merge. The properties in question are the following: (a) roots have no grammatical features, (b) roots have no syntactic category, (c) roots are defined structurally rather than lexically, and (d) roots are dominated by functional material (rather than the other way around). We argue that the first Merge operation in eac…
Distributed Morphology
In this paper we aim to explain and illustrate the theory of Distributed Morphology for non-specialists. The goal is to take away any misunderstandings and to provide some illustrations of the workings of the theory, mainly on the basis of data from Dutch. Distributed Morphology is a theory of morphology that embraces the so-called Separation Hypothesis: derivation – the forming of a new word by some abstract operation – is separated from affixat…
Collective mass affixes
Silence and the construct state in Dutch date expressions
In this paper, I examine two types of date expressions in Dutch. The first one contains an ordinal, the second one a cardinal. I have argued that the first construction contains both a silent preposition and a silent noun DAG ‘day’. As for the second construction, I have provided evidence for the fact that it also contains a silent noun DAG and that it instantiates a construct state. From a slightly broader perspective, then, these analyses provi…
Collective mass affixes
Against conflation
How to Merge a Root
The main goal of this article is to show that four properties of roots can be derived in a principled manner from the theory of Merge. The properties in question are the following: (a) roots have no grammatical features, (b) roots have no syntactic category, (c) roots are defined structurally rather than lexically, and (d) roots are dominated by functional material (rather than the other way around). We argue that the first Merge operation in eac…
The Root and Nothing but the Root
This article is an addendum to recent contributions on the structure of compounds in root-based frameworks, such as the Exoskeletal Model (Borer,:chap. 6, 2013b) or Distributed Morphology (Harley). It presents a subtype of Dutch primary compounds of which the nonhead is demonstrably a bare root. The nonhead of this type of compounding is fully acategorial. It does not contain categorial heads (i.e., little heads) and neither is it categorized oth…
A split approach to the selection of allomorphs
In this article it is argued that the selection of allomorphs is distributed over two modules, viz. Vocabulary Insertion and Phonology. This is done on the basis of a case study of vowel length alternating allomorphs in Dutch. The data show a split pattern: some empirical domains can be fully captured by phonological principles. For these cases, the phonologically most optimal allomorph will be selected. In other empirical domains, phonological p…
Distributed Morphology
In this paper we aim to explain and illustrate the theory of Distributed Morphology for non-specialists. The goal is to take away any misunderstandings and to provide some illustrations of the workings of the theory, mainly on the basis of data from Dutch. Distributed Morphology is a theory of morphology that embraces the so-called Separation Hypothesis: derivation – the forming of a new word by some abstract operation – is separated from affixat…
N-to-D Movement within Compounds and Phrases
Noun-noun concatenations can differ along two parameters. They can be compounds, i.e., single words, or constructs, i.e., constituents, and they can have modificational non-heads or referential non-heads. Of the four logical possibilities, one was argued not to exist: compounds of which the non-head is referential were considered to be principally excluded. In this article, I argue that Dutch has compounds with a referential non-head. They resemb…
Semi‐Lexicality
This paper is a state of the art paper on the linguistic phenomenon ‘semi‐lexicality’. We discuss what a semi‐lexical item is, namely an item which is typically considered to be from a lexical, open class (noun, verb, adjective) but which shows morphosyntactic and/or semantic properties that are usually associated with elements from functional, closed classes (quantifiers, auxiliaries, etc.), and its theoretical relevance for the field of generat…
Linguistics (7 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Compounding (2 works)