Research

Recent talks, papers, and publications by LiME-members:

Wiersma, S., S. Grondelaers & J. Swanenberg. 2024. Waarom doen wij altijd doen gebruiken? Evidentie uit een beoordelingsexperiment met geschaalde oordelen en free responses. Taal & Tongval 76(2): 237-262
Buurke, R., K. Doreleijers, M. Farasyn, L. Hilte, J. Swanenberg & C. Voeten. 2024. Introduction. Micro and macro variation: Diverse approaches in research on language variation and change. Taal & Tongval 76(2): 133-139.
Piepers, J., A. Backus & J. Swanenberg. 2025. Sociopragmatic pronouns in Limburgian: inferring speakers’ agency from self-reported automaticity, attitudes, and metalinguistic awareness.Cognitive Linguistics 36(1): 89-119.
Swanenberg, J. & M. Spotti. 2025. The Monolingual Campus and the Bilingual Campus: Ideological Debates on the Management of Language Diversity at Two Dutch Universities. Diversity & Inclusion Research 2(1): Article e70011.
Doreleijers, K., & S. Grondelaers. 2024. Between (anti-) grammar and identity: a quantitative and qualitative study of hyperdialectisms in Brabantish. Linguistics.
Doreleijers, K., & J. Swanenberg. 2024. Non-conforming dialect and its (social) meanings: younger and older speakers’ reactions to hyperdialectisms in Brabantish. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 47(3): 271–302.
Doreleijers, K., & I. Vierendeels. 2024. Van akker tot park: Taalculturele place-making en marketing in de online taalpraktijken van twee Belgische voetbalclubs. Taal & Tongval 76(2): 199-236.
Wouden, T. van der. 2024. Enige Nederlandse onbepaalde voornaamwoorden tussen sommige Duitse en Engelse. Leuvense Bijdragen – Leuven Contributions in Linguistics and Philology 104:121–153.
Broekhuis, H. & N. Corver. To appear. Adpositions and adpositional phrases A syntactic view from Dutch. Susanne Wurmbrand, Johannes Mursell & Katharina Hartmann (eds.). Handbook on the syntax of the Germanic languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Piepers, J., J. Swanenberg & A. Backus. 2023. Is ‘he’ still here? Exploring the contemporary use of masculine subject pronouns for women in Dutch dialects. Linguistics in the Netherlands 40:194–209
Doreleijers, K. 2023. Enregistering Grammatical Gender: Indexing Brabantishness through Languagecultural Practices in Digital Tiles. Signs and Society 11(3): 237–259.
Remijnse, L. & M. van Koppen. 2023. Intra- and inter-author variation in negation in the 17th century Dutch Letters as Loot. Journal of Historical Syntax 7, Article 26: 1–44.
Doreleijers, K., & J. Swanenberg. 2023. Hyperdialectisms revisited. Linguistics in the Netherlands 40:39–54.
Piepers, J., A. Backus, and J. Swanenberg. 2023. ‘It’ is not for everyone: variation in speakers’ evaluation of sociopragmatic pronouns in Limburgian. Languages 8(4):253. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8040253
Doreleijers, K., K. Mourigh, and J. Swanenberg. 2023. Negotiating local in-group norms in times of globalization. Adnominal gender variation in two urban youth varieties in the Netherlands. Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication 15: 117-143.
Broekhuis, H. 2023. Scrambling of definite object NPs in Dutch. Formal theories, corpus data and experimental research. Nederlandse Taalkunde 28(2):145–179. (preprint version)
Doreleijers, K., & Swanenberg, J. 2023. Putting local dialect in the mix: Indexicality and stylization in a TikTok challenge. Language & Communication 92, 1-14.
Doreleijers, K. 2023. Taalvariatie in de klas: Talige diversiteit benutten om taalbewustzijn te vergroten. In J. Dera, J. Gubbels, J. van der Loo, J. van Rijt (red.), Vaardig met Vakinhoud: Handboek Vakdidactiek Nederlands, 221–231. Bussum: Uitgeverij Coutinho.
Craenenbroeck, J. and M. van Koppen. 2023. Parameters and language contact: morphosyntactic variation in Dutch dialects. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 22: 1–25.
Doreleijers, K. 2022. Better catch them young, but how? A multilingual approach to dialects in education in North Brabant. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 11.
Broekhuis, H. 2022. VO or OV: V to v or not to v. Linguistic Variation 23(2):343–378.
Broekhuis, H. 2022. The distribution of SE-reflexives in Dutch. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1): 1–39.
Grondelaers, S., D. Speelman, R. De Troij, and R. van Hout. 2022. Do lexical biases (co-)determine the grammatical divergence between Belgian Dutch and Netherlandic Dutch? The role of random lexical effects in the modelling of syntactic variation. Talk at NWAV 50, Stanford University, 13–15 October 2022.
Hinskens, F. 2022. Variation in R-Pronouns in Moroccan and Turkish ethnolectal Dutch and what it tells us. Languages 7, 259.