Craenenbroeck, prof. dr. J. van (Jeroen)

Researcher Linguistics and Language Variation
E-mail:
jeroen.van.craenenbroeck@meertens.knaw.nl
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Biography

Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (1976) is Researcher Linguistics and Language Variation at the Meertens Institute. He is also professor of Dutch Linguistics at KU Leuven. He studied Linguistics and Literature: Dutch and English at KU Leuven and got his PhD from the University of Leiden in 2004 with a dissertation about ellipsis in Dutch dialects. He is currently actively involved in research projects on imperatives and comparatives, and he is the head of the scientific research community Re-examining dialect syntax (REEDS), a network of 17 universities and research institutes across Europe and the US, including the Meertens Institute.

Key publications

  • Craenenbroeck, J. van. 2022. Dutch specCP-expletives are main clause complementizers. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 25:385–416.
  • Craenenbroeck, J. van, M. van Koppen, and A. van den Bosch. 2019. A quantitative-theoretical analysis of syntactic microvariation. Word order in Dutch verb clusters. Language 95(2): 333–370.
  • Craenenbroeck, J. van & T. Temmerman (eds.). 2018. The Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Craenenbroeck, J. van. 2010. The syntax of ellipsis: evidence from Dutch dialects. New York: Oxford University Press.

Publications

2023

van Craenenbroeck, J. & van Koppen, M. (2023). Parameters and Language Contact: Morphosyntactic Variation in Dutch Dialects. Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 22, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/catjl.363

2022

van Craenenbroeck, J. (2022). Dutch specCP-expletives are main clause complementizers. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 25, 385-416. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10828-022-09139-7
van Craenenbroeck, J. & van Koppen, M. (Accepted/In press). Subject doubling, clitic pronouns and the left periphery in Dutch dialects. Quaderni di lavoro ASIt - ASIt working papers.
Jaspers, D. van Craenenbroeck, J. & Vanden Wyngaerd, G. (2022). The syntax and semantics of Dutch diminishers. Rivista di Grammatica Generativa, 44, 1-24.

2019

Corver, N. Van Craenenbroeck, J. Harwood, W. Hladnik, M. Leufkens, S. & Temmerman, T. (2019). Introduction: The compositionality and syntactic flexibility of verbal idioms. Linguistics, 57(4), 725-733. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2019-0021
Temmerman, T. & van Craenenbroeck, J. (2019). Over corpora, intuïties, en idiomen. Tijdschrift Voor Nederlandse Taal-en Letterkunde, 135(4), 453-464. https://doi.org/10.5117/TNTL2019.4.012.TEMM

2023

van Craenenbroeck, J. & van Koppen, M. (Accepted/In press). Quantitative approaches to syntactic variation. In The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Syntax Cambridge University Press.
Cornips, L. van Craenenbroeck, J. van der Sijs, N. & Swanenberg, J. (2023). Wat riekt het hier zwallig! Geurwoorden in het Nederlands en zijn dialecten. In I. Leemans, C. Verbeek, M. van Erp, G. Dijksterhuis, A. Groot, F. Bloem, M. W. Dagnino, & J. de Groot (Eds.), Neuswijzer: Geuratlas van de Lage Landen (pp. 163-169). Boom Uitgevers.

2022

van Craenenbroeck, J. (2022). Obligatory extraposition and clausal complementation. In C. Bourgoin, L. Vandelanotte, W. Van Praet, & J-C. Verstraete (Eds.), Signs and wonders: Liber amicorum for Kristin Davidse

2023

Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (2023). Limits on Participant Switching in VPE. 26-04-2023. (Colloquium on generative grammar)
Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (2023). Sloppy symmetry: a derivational account of symmetric predicates. 25-04-2023. (Colloquium on generative grammar)

2022

Jeroen van Craenenbroeck, J.M. (Marjo) van Koppen (2022). Seeking order in chaos: Morphosyntactic variation in Dutch dialects. 16-06-2022.
Jeroen van Craenenbroeck, J.M. (Marjo) van Koppen (2022). Morphosyntactic microvariation in Dutch: a quantitative‐parametric approach. 08-02-2022.