Marjolein Poortvliet
Biographic Data
| ID | 6223023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marjolein Poortvliet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marjolein |
| FAMILY NAME | Poortvliet |
| SIGNATURE | POORTVLIET M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5860-9992 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Emergence of the Descriptive Perception Verb Construction in Dutch
This article traces the syntactic and semantic development of the Descriptive Perception Verb Construction from Early Middle Dutch to present-day Dutch. The Dutch Descriptive Perception Verb Construction takes the simplified form [SUBJSTIM V PRED], e.g., Hij klinkt moe ‘He sounds tired’, where the subject is the stimulus of the perceptual event and the verb is followed by a predicative complement, e.g., an adjective. In its verb slot, this constr…
Topicality and anaphoricity in Dutch scrambling
Direct objects in Dutch can precede or follow adverbs, a phenomenon commonly referred to as scrambling . The linguistic literature agrees in its assumption that scrambling is regulated by the topicality and anaphoricity status of definite objects, but theories vary as to what kinds of objects exactly are predicted to scramble. This study reports experimental data from a sentence completion experiment with adult native speakers of Dutch, showing t…
Early Alternatives to Dutch Descriptive Perception Verb Constructions
Copular constructions (i.e. Subject‐Verb‐Predicative adjective) containing the Dutch descriptive perception verbs eruitzien ‘look’, klinken ‘sound’, voelen ‘feel’, ruiken ‘smell’ and smaken ‘taste’ (e.g. Zij klinkt blij ) emerged throughout Middle Dutch and Early Modern Dutch. It is surprising, then, that no descriptive perception verb constructions are found in the Dutch Bible translation from 1637, even though seventy instances are found in the…
Proeven as an acquired taste
This paper demonstrates the diachronic development of the Dutch gustatory verbs proeven and smaken and the semantic encroachment of the former on the meanings covered by the latter, and explains the current use of proeven in constructions in which smaken is expected (i.e. De soep proeft lekker ‘the soup tastes good’). This spread of the use of proeven (and the consequential increasingly limited use of smaken ) can be explained by metaphorization …
Copy Raising in English, German, and Dutch
This study discusses copy raising in English, German, and Dutch from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. Synchronically, copy raising has the same purpose in all three languages: to mark direct evidence. However, the languages differ in whether they allow their ‘seem’-verbs to appear in copy-raised constructions: English seem can copy raise, German scheinen cannot, whereas the status of Dutch lijken is undecided. This difference is expl…
Topicality and anaphoricity in Dutch scrambling
Direct objects in Dutch can precede or follow adverbs, a phenomenon commonly referred to as scrambling . The linguistic literature agrees in its assumption that scrambling is regulated by the topicality and anaphoricity status of definite objects, but theories vary as to what kinds of objects exactly are predicted to scramble. This study reports experimental data from a sentence completion experiment with adult native speakers of Dutch, showing t…
Copy Raising in English, German, and Dutch
This study discusses copy raising in English, German, and Dutch from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. Synchronically, copy raising has the same purpose in all three languages: to mark direct evidence. However, the languages differ in whether they allow their ‘seem’-verbs to appear in copy-raised constructions: English seem can copy raise, German scheinen cannot, whereas the status of Dutch lijken is undecided. This difference is expl…
Proeven as an acquired taste
This paper demonstrates the diachronic development of the Dutch gustatory verbs proeven and smaken and the semantic encroachment of the former on the meanings covered by the latter, and explains the current use of proeven in constructions in which smaken is expected (i.e. De soep proeft lekker ‘the soup tastes good’). This spread of the use of proeven (and the consequential increasingly limited use of smaken ) can be explained by metaphorization …
Early Alternatives to Dutch Descriptive Perception Verb Constructions
Copular constructions (i.e. Subject‐Verb‐Predicative adjective) containing the Dutch descriptive perception verbs eruitzien ‘look’, klinken ‘sound’, voelen ‘feel’, ruiken ‘smell’ and smaken ‘taste’ (e.g. Zij klinkt blij ) emerged throughout Middle Dutch and Early Modern Dutch. It is surprising, then, that no descriptive perception verb constructions are found in the Dutch Bible translation from 1637, even though seventy instances are found in the…
Topicality and anaphoricity in Dutch scrambling
Direct objects in Dutch can precede or follow adverbs, a phenomenon commonly referred to as scrambling . The linguistic literature agrees in its assumption that scrambling is regulated by the topicality and anaphoricity status of definite objects, but theories vary as to what kinds of objects exactly are predicted to scramble. This study reports experimental data from a sentence completion experiment with adult native speakers of Dutch, showing t…
The Emergence of the Descriptive Perception Verb Construction in Dutch
This article traces the syntactic and semantic development of the Descriptive Perception Verb Construction from Early Middle Dutch to present-day Dutch. The Dutch Descriptive Perception Verb Construction takes the simplified form [SUBJSTIM V PRED], e.g., Hij klinkt moe ‘He sounds tired’, where the subject is the stimulus of the perceptual event and the verb is followed by a predicative complement, e.g., an adjective. In its verb slot, this constr…
Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (3 works) · History (2 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (2 works) · Perception (2 works) · Predicative expression (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)