Linguistics in the Netherlands 1987

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of contributors -- Adverbial arguments -- Glide insertion: domains, speech rate and phonetic prominence -- Playing level with Dutch morphology -- The discourse function of quantifier float: tous in French -- Word order phenomena in second language acquisition of Dutch -- Single-valued features and the distinction between [-F] and [ØF] -- Van constructions in Dutch -- The impersonal construction in French and the Burzio-generalization -- Vowel harmony in Khalkha and Buriat (East Mongolian) -- The relationship between global language proficiency tests and language loss -- Estar comes of age -- On the functional interpretation of prenominal adjectives in Dutch -- On explaining subjacency -- Stress assignment in Dutch compound nouns -- Some notes on the syntax and semantics of modification in Hungarian -- Hit and dative complements in Old English -- Alternating verb forms in Papiamentu -- How do you do do? -- Incorporation in the Groningen dialect -- Word stress and higher level prosodies -- On Chomsky and Jespersen: two approaches to grammar -- On certain functional approaches to word order -- The change from OV to VO as a 'possible change' -- Adjective plus infinitive in Old English