The 39th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 2nd, 2008. The aim of the annual meetings is to provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.
At this year’s meeting, 91 papers were presented, of which 24 were submitted to the present volume. This volume contains a selection of these papers, which present an overview of current research in a variety of fields in linguistics.
Pauses as indicators in story structure (Benin) Marjolijn Aalders Grool 1–12
Predicting intelligibility and perceived linguistic distance by means of the Levenshtein algorithm Karin Beijering, Charlotte Gooskens and Wilbert Heeringa 13–24
The Early Surinamese Creoles in the Suriname Creole Archive (SUCA) Margot van den Berg and Adrienne Bruyn 25–36
VP-Internal DPs and Right-Dislocation in Zulu Leston Buell 37–49
How universal is the Universal Grinder? Lisa L.S. Cheng, Jenny Doetjes and Rint Sybesma 50–62
Proper names used as Common Nouns in Belgian Dutch and German Karen De Clercq 63–74
Preposition stranding in development Peter Coopmans and Rianne Schippers 75–86
Preliminary remarks on object-marking in Makalero Juliette Huber 87–96
Language Attrition in Dutch Emigrants in Anglophone Canada: Internally or externally-induced change? Merel Keijzer 97–108
NPI-licensing and dependent tense in Serbian Nataša Milicević 109–120