Norbert Corver
Biographic Data
| ID | 788371 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norbert Corver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norbert |
| FAMILY NAME | Corver |
| SIGNATURE | CORVER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Understanding Manner Modification from a Cross-Dependency Perspective
This article aims to increase our understanding of the syntax of manner modification by examining it from the perspective of the syntax of anaphoric dependencies. It is proposed that the two grammatical dependencies share certain abstract formal properties and are governed by the same type of principle governing the computational system of human language. Building on the so-called IDI constraint (Inability to Distinguish Indistinguishables), it i…
Some remarks on the fine structure of ideophones and the meaning of structure
The meaning of structure Hierarchical structure, a core property of human language, is closely connected to the expression of meaning.A well-known illustration of this close bond between structure and meaning comes from syntactic ambiguity: the linear string John hit the dog with the stick has two different interpretations, where each reading corresponds to a different constituent structure: John [ VP hit [ NP the dog [ PP with the stick]]]meanin…
Generatieve syntaxis van het Nederlands: Standen van zaken en een casusstudie
This paper presents an overview of the generative-linguistic study of Dutch syntax over the last five decades. This is done from three perspectives: a quantitative perspective, a theoretical perspective, and a case study perspective, specifically the case of manner-adverbial patterns of the type A+P; for example, hardop ‘aloud’
Adverbial -s as last resort: N and a Get Their Support
This article examines the grammatical behavior of Dutch adverbs featuring so-called adverbial - s . This will be done on the basis of three questions: Firstly, what is the grammatical nature of adverbial - s ? Secondly, in which structural configurations does it appear? Thirdly, what does adverbial - s tell us about the existence of adverbs as a separate part of speech? The article provides the following three answers to these questions: Firstly,…
Adviserend beter: De pragmatiek en syntaxis van een modaal-subjectief bijwoord
This paper presents a qualitative analysis of a construction that has not been studied extensively yet, namely the Dutch beter-construction, as in Beter ga je bij Starbucks koffie halen, ‘You better get yourself a coffee at Starbucks’. The paper gives a detailed description of the syntactic structure and the pragmatics of the construction. We argue that the sentence-initial adverb beter in the beter-construction differs, in both meaning and distr…
Introduction: The compositionality and syntactic flexibility of verbal idioms
sponsorship: The research project "The Syntax of Idioms" (KU Leuven/Universiteit Utrecht) was funded by FWO (G.A049.12N) and NWO (326-78-001). (FWO|G.A049.12N, NWO|326-78-001)
Freezing Effects
The notion of freezing refers to the phenomenon whereby a constituent becomes an island for extraction when that constituent has undergone syntactic movement (displacement). In other words, the constituent is opaque (“frozen”) in its movement‐derived position. This chapter presents different types of movement‐derived syntactic configurations that display freezing effects and discusses various approaches that have been proposed in generative gramm…
Comparative Deletion and Comparative Subdeletion
This chapter discusses the syntax of the Comparative Deletion (CD) construction and the Comparative Subdeletion (CSD) construction. It starts with a presentation of some central basic concepts about comparatives, including a brief background in scalar semantics, the interpretation of the comparative morpheme, and the transparent mapping operations from logical forms to semantics. Special attention is paid to the organization of the comparative co…
Subextraction
Subextraction is the phenomenon that occurs when a constituent is moved out of a larger phrase in which it is embedded. The question arises of when subextraction is possible and when it is not. Furthermore, the question of what accounts for the (im)possibility of subextraction should be answered. These questions are addressed for the nominal domain. Issues that are discussed include the (im)possibility of subextraction of left branch constituents…
(Un)boundedness across syntactic categories
MIcrocomparative MOrphosyntactic REsearch (Mimore): Mapping partial grammars of Flemish, Brabantish and Dutch
Floating around in the Dutch nominal domain
In this article I investigate the internal syntax of Dutch nominal expressions like twee slangen van elk twee meter (two snakes of each two meter). The preposition van separates the quantifier elk from the expression twee slangen to which it is connected interpretatively. From a purely observational view, the quantifier could be said to be floating in the nominal domain. In this article I argue that this floating elk is an instance of so-called ‘…
Recursing in Dutch
Specific language impairment as a syntax-phonology (PF) interface problem: Evidence from Afrikaans
A theoretical account of specific language impairment (SLI) – one which places the locus of the impairment at Spell-Out at the syntax-phonology interface – is proposed and then tested against utterances from Afrikaans-speaking children with SLI. Drawing on Minimalism, our account offers a unified explanation for the seemingly diverse phenomena found in the Afrikaans data: omission of certain lexical material, double articulation of other lexical …
NP-ellipsis with adjectival remnants: A micro-comparative perspective
Two strategies of NP-ellipsis have been identified in the literature: (a) the elision strategy, and (b) the pronominalization strategy. The former has been said to be dependent on the presence of inflectional morphology (i.e., agreement) on the adjectival remnant. The latter strategy is used when the adjectival remnant does not carry any inflectional morphology. The aim of this article is to show that there are languages, among which Dutch, where…
DP-internal information structure: Some introductory remarks
Getting the (syntactic) measure of Measure Phrases
Taking the quest for symmetry in the analysis of the syntax of measure phrases (MP) as a heuristic background, this article tries to further our understanding of MPs by giving an in-depth, cross-linguistic analysis of adjectival and nominal constructions featuring an MP. It is shown that symmetry is found both at the level of phrase structural organization and at the level of displacement. As for the first level of symmetry, it is argued that MPs…
Collective numeral constructions in Dutch: Remarkable plurals, regular syntax and silent nouns
In this paper, we discuss some collective numeral constructions from Dutch, which display a remarkable plural morpheme -en: wij vieren “the four of us”, met ons vieren “with four” and met z’n vieren “with four”. We argue that these at first sight idiosyncratic constructs are formed in syntax by application of the regular syntactic rules: Merge and Move. A central claim we make is that these collective numeral constructions contain a silent noun P…
Dutch ‘Proper name + -s ’: A hidden possessive
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WH-Movement: Moving On
Wh-movement—the phenomenon by which interrogative words appear at the beginning of interrogative sentences—is one of the central displacement operations of human language. Noam Chomsky's 1977 paper "On Wh-Movement," a landmark in the study of wh-movement (and movement in general), showed that this computational operation is the basis of a variety of syntactic constructions that had previously been described in terms of construction-specific rules…
Linguistic perspectives on numerical expressions: Introduction
Prepositional numerals
Low Saxon possessive pronominals: Syntax and phonology
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On predicate numerals
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Conservation of grammatical knowledge: On the acquisition of possessive noun phrases by Turkish and Moroccan learners of Dutch
This article deals with the acquisition of possessive DP structures by Turkish and Moroccan adults and children learning Dutch without substantial classroom instruction. Our main claim is that L 2 learners systematically and consistently rely on their grammatical knowledge, which surfaces in the initial stages of the L 2 acquisition process but also has a strong impact on later developmental stages. Such a strong conservation encompasses paramete…
The Internal Syntax of the Dutch Extended Adjectival Projection
NP-ellipsis with adjectival remnants: A micro-comparative perspective
Two strategies of NP-ellipsis have been identified in the literature: (a) the elision strategy, and (b) the pronominalization strategy. The former has been said to be dependent on the presence of inflectional morphology (i.e., agreement) on the adjectival remnant. The latter strategy is used when the adjectival remnant does not carry any inflectional morphology. The aim of this article is to show that there are languages, among which Dutch, where…
DP-internal information structure: Some introductory remarks
Prepositional numerals
Adverbial -s as last resort: N and a Get Their Support
This article examines the grammatical behavior of Dutch adverbs featuring so-called adverbial - s . This will be done on the basis of three questions: Firstly, what is the grammatical nature of adverbial - s ? Secondly, in which structural configurations does it appear? Thirdly, what does adverbial - s tell us about the existence of adverbs as a separate part of speech? The article provides the following three answers to these questions: Firstly,…
Recursing in Dutch
Linguistic perspectives on numerical expressions: Introduction
Studies on Scrambling: Movement and Non-Movement Approaches to Free Word-Order Phenomena
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address…
The Internal Syntax of the Dutch Extended Adjectival Projection
Conservation of grammatical knowledge: On the acquisition of possessive noun phrases by Turkish and Moroccan learners of Dutch
This article deals with the acquisition of possessive DP structures by Turkish and Moroccan adults and children learning Dutch without substantial classroom instruction. Our main claim is that L 2 learners systematically and consistently rely on their grammatical knowledge, which surfaces in the initial stages of the L 2 acquisition process but also has a strong impact on later developmental stages. Such a strong conservation encompasses paramete…
On predicate numerals
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Low Saxon possessive pronominals: Syntax and phonology
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WH-Movement: Moving On
Wh-movement—the phenomenon by which interrogative words appear at the beginning of interrogative sentences—is one of the central displacement operations of human language. Noam Chomsky's 1977 paper "On Wh-Movement," a landmark in the study of wh-movement (and movement in general), showed that this computational operation is the basis of a variety of syntactic constructions that had previously been described in terms of construction-specific rules…
Linguistic perspectives on numerical expressions: Introduction
Prepositional numerals
Dutch ‘Proper name + -s ’: A hidden possessive
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Collective numeral constructions in Dutch: Remarkable plurals, regular syntax and silent nouns
In this paper, we discuss some collective numeral constructions from Dutch, which display a remarkable plural morpheme -en: wij vieren “the four of us”, met ons vieren “with four” and met z’n vieren “with four”. We argue that these at first sight idiosyncratic constructs are formed in syntax by application of the regular syntactic rules: Merge and Move. A central claim we make is that these collective numeral constructions contain a silent noun P…
Getting the (syntactic) measure of Measure Phrases
Taking the quest for symmetry in the analysis of the syntax of measure phrases (MP) as a heuristic background, this article tries to further our understanding of MPs by giving an in-depth, cross-linguistic analysis of adjectival and nominal constructions featuring an MP. It is shown that symmetry is found both at the level of phrase structural organization and at the level of displacement. As for the first level of symmetry, it is argued that MPs…
DP-internal information structure: Some introductory remarks
NP-ellipsis with adjectival remnants: A micro-comparative perspective
Two strategies of NP-ellipsis have been identified in the literature: (a) the elision strategy, and (b) the pronominalization strategy. The former has been said to be dependent on the presence of inflectional morphology (i.e., agreement) on the adjectival remnant. The latter strategy is used when the adjectival remnant does not carry any inflectional morphology. The aim of this article is to show that there are languages, among which Dutch, where…
Specific language impairment as a syntax-phonology (PF) interface problem: Evidence from Afrikaans
A theoretical account of specific language impairment (SLI) – one which places the locus of the impairment at Spell-Out at the syntax-phonology interface – is proposed and then tested against utterances from Afrikaans-speaking children with SLI. Drawing on Minimalism, our account offers a unified explanation for the seemingly diverse phenomena found in the Afrikaans data: omission of certain lexical material, double articulation of other lexical …
Floating around in the Dutch nominal domain
In this article I investigate the internal syntax of Dutch nominal expressions like twee slangen van elk twee meter (two snakes of each two meter). The preposition van separates the quantifier elk from the expression twee slangen to which it is connected interpretatively. From a purely observational view, the quantifier could be said to be floating in the nominal domain. In this article I argue that this floating elk is an instance of so-called ‘…
Recursing in Dutch
(Un)boundedness across syntactic categories
MIcrocomparative MOrphosyntactic REsearch (Mimore): Mapping partial grammars of Flemish, Brabantish and Dutch
Freezing Effects
The notion of freezing refers to the phenomenon whereby a constituent becomes an island for extraction when that constituent has undergone syntactic movement (displacement). In other words, the constituent is opaque (“frozen”) in its movement‐derived position. This chapter presents different types of movement‐derived syntactic configurations that display freezing effects and discusses various approaches that have been proposed in generative gramm…
Comparative Deletion and Comparative Subdeletion
This chapter discusses the syntax of the Comparative Deletion (CD) construction and the Comparative Subdeletion (CSD) construction. It starts with a presentation of some central basic concepts about comparatives, including a brief background in scalar semantics, the interpretation of the comparative morpheme, and the transparent mapping operations from logical forms to semantics. Special attention is paid to the organization of the comparative co…
Subextraction
Subextraction is the phenomenon that occurs when a constituent is moved out of a larger phrase in which it is embedded. The question arises of when subextraction is possible and when it is not. Furthermore, the question of what accounts for the (im)possibility of subextraction should be answered. These questions are addressed for the nominal domain. Issues that are discussed include the (im)possibility of subextraction of left branch constituents…
Introduction: The compositionality and syntactic flexibility of verbal idioms
sponsorship: The research project "The Syntax of Idioms" (KU Leuven/Universiteit Utrecht) was funded by FWO (G.A049.12N) and NWO (326-78-001). (FWO|G.A049.12N, NWO|326-78-001)
Adviserend beter: De pragmatiek en syntaxis van een modaal-subjectief bijwoord
This paper presents a qualitative analysis of a construction that has not been studied extensively yet, namely the Dutch beter-construction, as in Beter ga je bij Starbucks koffie halen, ‘You better get yourself a coffee at Starbucks’. The paper gives a detailed description of the syntactic structure and the pragmatics of the construction. We argue that the sentence-initial adverb beter in the beter-construction differs, in both meaning and distr…
Generatieve syntaxis van het Nederlands: Standen van zaken en een casusstudie
This paper presents an overview of the generative-linguistic study of Dutch syntax over the last five decades. This is done from three perspectives: a quantitative perspective, a theoretical perspective, and a case study perspective, specifically the case of manner-adverbial patterns of the type A+P; for example, hardop ‘aloud’
Adverbial -s as last resort: N and a Get Their Support
This article examines the grammatical behavior of Dutch adverbs featuring so-called adverbial - s . This will be done on the basis of three questions: Firstly, what is the grammatical nature of adverbial - s ? Secondly, in which structural configurations does it appear? Thirdly, what does adverbial - s tell us about the existence of adverbs as a separate part of speech? The article provides the following three answers to these questions: Firstly,…
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