Boekbespreking: Zwart, Jan Wouter, The syntax of Dutch - (Cambridge Syntax Guides.)

Matching Jan - Wouter

In Chomsky’s Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1992), formal licensing operations are defined as feature matching operations. Elements are inserted in fully inflected form, carrying abstract morphological features associated with the inflection. These features have counterparts represented in functional heads. At some point in the derivation, the inflected elements raise to a position close to these ...

The Syntax and Semantics of timed CRL Jan Friso

We de ne a speci cation language called `timed CRL'. This language is designed to describe communicating processes employing data and time. Timed CRL is the successor of CRL [17]. It di ers in two main aspects. It is possible to make explicit reference to time using a new `at' operator; p,t is the process p where the rst action must take place at time t. Furthermore, a distinction has been made...

Syntax-related ERP-effects in Dutch.

In two studies subjects were required to read Dutch sentences that in some cases contained a syntactic violation, in other cases a semantic violation. All syntactic violations were word category violations. The design excluded differential contributions of expectancy to influence the syntactic violation effects. The syntactic violations elicited an Anterior Negativity between 300 and 500 ms. Th...

Topics in Corpus-Based Dutch Syntax

Syntax

Syntax is the cognitive capacity of human beings that allows us to connect linguistic meaning with linguistic form. The study of syntax is a huge field that has generated a great deal of empirical and theoretical work over the decades. This article outlines why understanding our syntactic capacity is important to cognitive science in general and why the data of syntactic research is to be taken...