Taalportaal

The Taalportaal (taalportaal.org) provides freely accessible, authoritative grammatical descriptions of languages like Dutch, Frisian, and Afrikaans for scientific purposes. The Meertens Institute is responsible for the production and maintenance of the Dutch component. In the upcoming research period, several missing components will be added to the field of syntax, including sizable descriptions of coordination and phenomena that are interrelated, such as contractions. A number of topics in the overlapping area of syntax and semantics will also be described, such as negation and negative polarity items (in Ik denk niet dat er ook maar iemand zal zijn). Some of the syntax components date back to the end of the previous century and will be updated with the most recent information.