Marjo Van Koppen
Biographic Data
| ID | 825130 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marjo Van Koppen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marjo |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Koppen |
| SIGNATURE | VAN KOPPEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9044-4312 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A quantitative and qualitative analysis of syntactic variation in Dutch dialects
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.This paper aims to provide a parametric account of a set of morphosyntactic variation data from Dutch dialects. The analysis proceeds in two steps: first, the raw data are fed into a number of exploratory statistical techniques so as to be able to discern the main patterns and tendencies, and in a second step the outcome of the quantitative analysis is analyzed from a f…
Pronominal Gender in Dutch
This article discusses pronominal gender agreement in Dutch. Based on a sentence completion task filled out by about 10,000 speakers, we provide evidence for the claim that there is an ongoing shift from lexical to semantic agreement in Dutch, even in a formal register. Results of correspondence and cluster analyses indicate that nouns with the same degree of individuation group together. Furthermore, the analyses reveal an age effect, with three…
Inflected imperatives in Dutch dialects
This paper investigates a striking agreement phenomenon in several Hollandic dialects of Dutch. In these dialects, imperatives of Exceptional Case Marking (ECM) verbs (such as kijken ‘look’ and horen ‘hear’) show number agreement with the subject of their embedded infinitival clause, an agreement pattern not attested in Standard Dutch. We refer to such constructions as ‘inflected imperatives’. We argue that in these cases the imperative verb lack…
Multimodal dairy cow-human interaction in an intensive farming context
In our consideration of how to decentre an anthropocentric view in linguistics, we will address the following research question: how do dairy cows and humans imbue their interspecies interaction as a semiotic resource with meaning that makes sense for both species under specific social conditions (Jørgensen, 2008:167). We address the question by using a social-interactional approach informed by conversation analysis (CA) (Goodwin, 2017, Mondada, …
Spelen met verwachtingen
The lively research into changing negation patterns focuses mostly on the patterns found between authors. It rarely offers any insight into the individual language user who uses one- and two-part negations interchangeably in everyday communication, or in literary products. To fill this gap, this article focuses on the negation variation of the individual seventeenth-century language user Michiel de Ruyter (1607-1676), by studying travel journals …
Reimagining language
What is language and who or what can be said to have it? In this essay we consider this question in the context of interactions with non-humans, specifically: animals and computers. While perhaps an odd pairing at first glance, here we argue that these domains can offer contrasting perspectives through which we can explore and reimagine language. The interactions between humans and animals, as well as between humans and computers, reveal both the…
A linguistic-pragmatic analysis of cat-induced deixis in cat-human interactions
A quantitative-theoretical analysis of syntactic microvariation
A quantitative-theoretical analysis of syntactic microvariation
This article is a case study in how quantitative-statistical and formal-theoretical (generative) approaches to language variation can be combined. We provide a quantitative analysis of word-order variation in verb clusters in 185 dialects of Dutch and map the results of that analysis against linguistic parameters extracted from the theoretical literature on verb clusters. Based on this novel methodology, we argue that verb cluster ordering in Dut…
Complementizer Agreement
Complementizers agree in phi‐features with the embedded subject in dialects of German and Dutch, in Tense with the embedded clause in Irish and in phi‐features with the matrix subject in certain African languages. These complementizer agreement phenomena will be the main empirical focus of this chapter. In particular it discusses the empirical generalizations and analyses of complementizer agreement itself as well as the relevance of this phenome…
MIcrocomparative MOrphosyntactic REsearch (Mimore)
Discovering the Dutch
The distribution of phi-features in pronouns
This paper focuses on the question which phi-features are associated with pronouns and how these features are distributed over their internal structure. I argue that pronouns contain Participant and Individuation features (Harley and Ritter 2002). The Participant features and the Individuation features are merged as discrete sets of features which can be targeted for syntactic operations like Agree independently from the other phi-features associ…
Complementizer Agreement and the Relation between C0and T0
Several proposals suggest a φ-feature dependency between C0and T0(see, e.g., Zwart 1993 , Chomsky 2008 ). In most (if not all) of these proposals, the core piece of empirical evidence is complementizer agreement (CA). On the basis of two sets of CA data, CA with coordinated subjects and CA with external possessors, we conclude that there is no φ-feature dependency between C0and T0; instead, C0and T0must each be endowed with a discrete set of φ-fe…
NP-ellipsis with adjectival remnants
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
Boolean Agreement in Tegelen Dutch
Agreement with coordinated subjects
I discuss the variation concerning agreement with coordinated subjects in Dutch dialects. I show that a verb or a complementizer in several variants of Dutch agrees with the first conjunct of a coordinated subject and in other variants with the coordinated subject as a whole. I argue that this variation can be accounted for by the interaction between the syntactic derivation and the post-syntactic morphological component.More specifically, I argu…
Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects
This paper discusses some of the advantages and disadvantages of the various choices we had to make in order to realize the Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects (SAND) in a relatively short period.The idea is that by presenting the SAND in this way, we enable the ScanDiaSyn project and other new dialect syntax projects to profit from our experience in a similar enterprise.The presentation and explicitation of the choices we had to make, the prob…
Complementizer Agreement and the Relation between C0and T0
Several proposals suggest a φ-feature dependency between C0and T0(see, e.g., Zwart 1993 , Chomsky 2008 ). In most (if not all) of these proposals, the core piece of empirical evidence is complementizer agreement (CA). On the basis of two sets of CA data, CA with coordinated subjects and CA with external possessors, we conclude that there is no φ-feature dependency between C0and T0; instead, C0and T0must each be endowed with a discrete set of φ-fe…
A linguistic-pragmatic analysis of cat-induced deixis in cat-human interactions
Multimodal dairy cow-human interaction in an intensive farming context
In our consideration of how to decentre an anthropocentric view in linguistics, we will address the following research question: how do dairy cows and humans imbue their interspecies interaction as a semiotic resource with meaning that makes sense for both species under specific social conditions (Jørgensen, 2008:167). We address the question by using a social-interactional approach informed by conversation analysis (CA) (Goodwin, 2017, Mondada, …
The distribution of phi-features in pronouns
This paper focuses on the question which phi-features are associated with pronouns and how these features are distributed over their internal structure. I argue that pronouns contain Participant and Individuation features (Harley and Ritter 2002). The Participant features and the Individuation features are merged as discrete sets of features which can be targeted for syntactic operations like Agree independently from the other phi-features associ…
NP-ellipsis with adjectival remnants
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
A quantitative-theoretical analysis of syntactic microvariation
This article is a case study in how quantitative-statistical and formal-theoretical (generative) approaches to language variation can be combined. We provide a quantitative analysis of word-order variation in verb clusters in 185 dialects of Dutch and map the results of that analysis against linguistic parameters extracted from the theoretical literature on verb clusters. Based on this novel methodology, we argue that verb cluster ordering in Dut…
Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects
This paper discusses some of the advantages and disadvantages of the various choices we had to make in order to realize the Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects (SAND) in a relatively short period.The idea is that by presenting the SAND in this way, we enable the ScanDiaSyn project and other new dialect syntax projects to profit from our experience in a similar enterprise.The presentation and explicitation of the choices we had to make, the prob…
Agreement with coordinated subjects
I discuss the variation concerning agreement with coordinated subjects in Dutch dialects. I show that a verb or a complementizer in several variants of Dutch agrees with the first conjunct of a coordinated subject and in other variants with the coordinated subject as a whole. I argue that this variation can be accounted for by the interaction between the syntactic derivation and the post-syntactic morphological component.More specifically, I argu…
Boolean Agreement in Tegelen Dutch
DP-internal information structure
NP-ellipsis with adjectival remnants
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…
The distribution of phi-features in pronouns
This paper focuses on the question which phi-features are associated with pronouns and how these features are distributed over their internal structure. I argue that pronouns contain Participant and Individuation features (Harley and Ritter 2002). The Participant features and the Individuation features are merged as discrete sets of features which can be targeted for syntactic operations like Agree independently from the other phi-features associ…
Complementizer Agreement and the Relation between C0and T0
Several proposals suggest a φ-feature dependency between C0and T0(see, e.g., Zwart 1993 , Chomsky 2008 ). In most (if not all) of these proposals, the core piece of empirical evidence is complementizer agreement (CA). On the basis of two sets of CA data, CA with coordinated subjects and CA with external possessors, we conclude that there is no φ-feature dependency between C0and T0; instead, C0and T0must each be endowed with a discrete set of φ-fe…
Discovering the Dutch
MIcrocomparative MOrphosyntactic REsearch (Mimore)
Complementizer Agreement
Complementizers agree in phi‐features with the embedded subject in dialects of German and Dutch, in Tense with the embedded clause in Irish and in phi‐features with the matrix subject in certain African languages. These complementizer agreement phenomena will be the main empirical focus of this chapter. In particular it discusses the empirical generalizations and analyses of complementizer agreement itself as well as the relevance of this phenome…
A quantitative-theoretical analysis of syntactic microvariation
A quantitative-theoretical analysis of syntactic microvariation
This article is a case study in how quantitative-statistical and formal-theoretical (generative) approaches to language variation can be combined. We provide a quantitative analysis of word-order variation in verb clusters in 185 dialects of Dutch and map the results of that analysis against linguistic parameters extracted from the theoretical literature on verb clusters. Based on this novel methodology, we argue that verb cluster ordering in Dut…
Spelen met verwachtingen
The lively research into changing negation patterns focuses mostly on the patterns found between authors. It rarely offers any insight into the individual language user who uses one- and two-part negations interchangeably in everyday communication, or in literary products. To fill this gap, this article focuses on the negation variation of the individual seventeenth-century language user Michiel de Ruyter (1607-1676), by studying travel journals …
Reimagining language
What is language and who or what can be said to have it? In this essay we consider this question in the context of interactions with non-humans, specifically: animals and computers. While perhaps an odd pairing at first glance, here we argue that these domains can offer contrasting perspectives through which we can explore and reimagine language. The interactions between humans and animals, as well as between humans and computers, reveal both the…
A linguistic-pragmatic analysis of cat-induced deixis in cat-human interactions
Multimodal dairy cow-human interaction in an intensive farming context
In our consideration of how to decentre an anthropocentric view in linguistics, we will address the following research question: how do dairy cows and humans imbue their interspecies interaction as a semiotic resource with meaning that makes sense for both species under specific social conditions (Jørgensen, 2008:167). We address the question by using a social-interactional approach informed by conversation analysis (CA) (Goodwin, 2017, Mondada, …
A quantitative and qualitative analysis of syntactic variation in Dutch dialects
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.This paper aims to provide a parametric account of a set of morphosyntactic variation data from Dutch dialects. The analysis proceeds in two steps: first, the raw data are fed into a number of exploratory statistical techniques so as to be able to discern the main patterns and tendencies, and in a second step the outcome of the quantitative analysis is analyzed from a f…
Pronominal Gender in Dutch
This article discusses pronominal gender agreement in Dutch. Based on a sentence completion task filled out by about 10,000 speakers, we provide evidence for the claim that there is an ongoing shift from lexical to semantic agreement in Dutch, even in a formal register. Results of correspondence and cluster analyses indicate that nouns with the same degree of individuation group together. Furthermore, the analyses reveal an age effect, with three…
Inflected imperatives in Dutch dialects
This paper investigates a striking agreement phenomenon in several Hollandic dialects of Dutch. In these dialects, imperatives of Exceptional Case Marking (ECM) verbs (such as kijken ‘look’ and horen ‘hear’) show number agreement with the subject of their embedded infinitival clause, an agreement pattern not attested in Standard Dutch. We refer to such constructions as ‘inflected imperatives’. We argue that in these cases the imperative verb lack…
Linguistics (14 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (10 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (8 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (8 works) · Agreement (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Complementizer (6 works) · Natural language processing (6 works)