Astrid Van Alem
Biographic Data
| ID | 2177996 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Astrid Van Alem |
| GIVEN NAMES | Astrid |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Alem |
| SIGNATURE | VAN ALEM A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Potsdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7350-9965 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling: Evidence from intervention effects in Frisian and Limburgian
Complementizer agreement in minority and nonstandard West Germanic languages is well-known and frequently studied, but there is little agreement on its analysis. In this paper, I add to this debate by presenting novel and underdiscussed data from Frisian and Limburgian on intervention effects: what happens to complementizer agreement when the complementizer and the subject are separated by an intervening element. In Frisian, intervention leads to…
First conjunct complementiser agreement and the structure of coordination
A recurring question in relation to first conjunct agreement concerns the underlying structure of the coordination: is first conjunct agreement the result of agreement with the first conjunct of a nominal coordination, or is it the result of agreement with the subject of a clausal first conjunct, that undergoes ellipsis and movement to make it look like a nominal conjunct? In this paper, I argue that several instances of first conjunct complement…
Negative Concord without Agree: Insights from German, Dutch and English Child Language
Children acquiring a non-negative concord language like English or German have been found to consistently interpret sentences with two negative elements in a negative concord manner as conveying a single semantic negation. Corpus-based investigations for English and German show that children also produce sentences with two negative elements but only a single negation meaning. As any approach to negative concord and negative indefinites needs to a…
Poor weak het ‘it’ and agreement patterns in pronominal clefts
This paper proposes a novel analysis of the exceptional agreement patterns in pronominal het ‘it’-clefts with the order het-copula-pronoun in Dutch. We argue that the complex interaction in clefts between case, agreement and word order can be explained from the radical featural defectivity of het ‘it’: het ‘it’ has a third person (3p) feature, but no case, number, strength and gender features. We show that het ‘it’ is different from all personal …
Complementizer agreement is not allomorphy: A reply to Weisser (2019)
Weisser (2019) reanalyzes the Breton rannig, Busan Korean interrogative complementizer alternations, and West-Germanic complementizer agreement as allomorphy instead of agreement, and proposes a set of diagnostics to distinguish allomorphy from agreement. While the cases for Breton and Busan Korean are convincing and the results coherent, West-Germanic complementizer agreement diverges in several respects. In this squib, I review the three case s…
Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling: Evidence from intervention effects in Frisian and Limburgian
Complementizer agreement in minority and nonstandard West Germanic languages is well-known and frequently studied, but there is little agreement on its analysis. In this paper, I add to this debate by presenting novel and underdiscussed data from Frisian and Limburgian on intervention effects: what happens to complementizer agreement when the complementizer and the subject are separated by an intervening element. In Frisian, intervention leads to…
Negative Concord without Agree: Insights from German, Dutch and English Child Language
Children acquiring a non-negative concord language like English or German have been found to consistently interpret sentences with two negative elements in a negative concord manner as conveying a single semantic negation. Corpus-based investigations for English and German show that children also produce sentences with two negative elements but only a single negation meaning. As any approach to negative concord and negative indefinites needs to a…
Complementizer agreement is not allomorphy: A reply to Weisser (2019)
Weisser (2019) reanalyzes the Breton rannig, Busan Korean interrogative complementizer alternations, and West-Germanic complementizer agreement as allomorphy instead of agreement, and proposes a set of diagnostics to distinguish allomorphy from agreement. While the cases for Breton and Busan Korean are convincing and the results coherent, West-Germanic complementizer agreement diverges in several respects. In this squib, I review the three case s…
Poor weak het ‘it’ and agreement patterns in pronominal clefts
This paper proposes a novel analysis of the exceptional agreement patterns in pronominal het ‘it’-clefts with the order het-copula-pronoun in Dutch. We argue that the complex interaction in clefts between case, agreement and word order can be explained from the radical featural defectivity of het ‘it’: het ‘it’ has a third person (3p) feature, but no case, number, strength and gender features. We show that het ‘it’ is different from all personal …
First conjunct complementiser agreement and the structure of coordination
A recurring question in relation to first conjunct agreement concerns the underlying structure of the coordination: is first conjunct agreement the result of agreement with the first conjunct of a nominal coordination, or is it the result of agreement with the subject of a clausal first conjunct, that undergoes ellipsis and movement to make it look like a nominal conjunct? In this paper, I argue that several instances of first conjunct complement…
Negative Concord without Agree: Insights from German, Dutch and English Child Language
Children acquiring a non-negative concord language like English or German have been found to consistently interpret sentences with two negative elements in a negative concord manner as conveying a single semantic negation. Corpus-based investigations for English and German show that children also produce sentences with two negative elements but only a single negation meaning. As any approach to negative concord and negative indefinites needs to a…
Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling: Evidence from intervention effects in Frisian and Limburgian
Complementizer agreement in minority and nonstandard West Germanic languages is well-known and frequently studied, but there is little agreement on its analysis. In this paper, I add to this debate by presenting novel and underdiscussed data from Frisian and Limburgian on intervention effects: what happens to complementizer agreement when the complementizer and the subject are separated by an intervening element. In Frisian, intervention leads to…
Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (5 works) · Agreement (4 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (3 works) · Complementizer (2 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Syntax (2 works)