Linguistics in the Netherlands 2005

1. Preface; 2. Contributors; 3. Doing the Split-S in Klon (by Baird, Louise); 4. How easy is it for speakers of Dutch to understand Frisian and Afrikaans, and why? (by Bezooijen, Renee van); 5. Linguistic variation in the subjuntivo imperfecto in Spanish America in the 16th century (by Branza, Mircea); 6. Auxiliary drop as subordination marking (by Breitbarth, Anne); 7. Locative inversion in English (by Broekhuis, Hans); 8. Modifiable and intensifier self in Dutch and Sign Language of the Netherlands (by Clerck, Liesbeth de); 9. Low Saxon possessive pronominals: Syntax and phonology (by Corver, Norbert); 10. Why there is(n't) wh-movement in there-constructions (by Hartmann, Jutta); 11. Subject-Object ambiguities in spoken and written Dutch (by Jansen, Frank); 12. Quantification and learnability: Early mastery of the weak-strong distinction (by Kramer, Irene); 13. Phonetic and phonological processing of pitch levels: A perception study of Chinese (aphasic) speakers (by Liang, Jie); 14. The perception of interrogativity by Japanese speakers of Dutch as a second language (by Niioka, Yuki); 15. Weak and weaker prepositional complements (by Ruys, Eddy G.); 16. The phonological bootstrapping of determiners (by Santos, Raquel S.); 17. Classifying Dutch dialects using a syntactic measure: The perceptual Daan and Blok dialect map revisited (by Spruit, Marco Rene); 18. Cross-modularity in active to passive alternations (by Swart, Peter de); 19. A note on the scope of adverbs in Malagasy (by Thiersch, Craig L.); 20. Merge: Properties and boundary conditions (by Vries, Mark de); 21. Some notes on coordination in head-final languages (by Zwart, C. Jan-Wouter)