Eva van Lier

Current and recent research projects

I'm currently working as postdoctoral researcher on the project "Nouns and verbs, and what it means not to have them", with an NWO VENI-grant from the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research.
My project investigates the semantics and morpho-syntax of word classes in a sub-family of Oceanic languages, from a functional-typological perspective.
In relation to this project, I'm co-editing a book on flexible word class systems, together with Jan Rijkhoff.

After obtaining my PhD in Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam in 2009, I worked for two years as a postdoctoral research associate with Prof. Anna Siewierska at Lancaster University, on the project "Referential hierarchies in morpho-syntax" (RHIM), funded by the European Science Foundation (see EuroBABEL link below). In May2011 we hosted an international workshop on referential effects in ditransitive constructions. I'm currently guest-editing a special issue of Linguistic Discovery, containing contributions to this workshop, in memory of Anna Siewierska.

My PhD research comprised a typological study of word class systems and dependent clause constructions in 50 languages. Specifically, it investigates the relation between functional flexibility of lexical and clausal constructions in any particular language.

 

Summary VENI-project

RHIM project

Workshop Ditransitives Lancaster

EuroBABEL ESF

Download/order my thesis (2009)

INTERVIEW VENI RADIO1!

Listen to a brief interview on national radio about my VENI project.

Open the link, choose Dinsdag 19 oktober, and time 18:00. When the file starts playing, skip to 19:30 minutes.

radio 1 interview

Publications

Under review

Van Lier, E. & J. Rijkhoff (eds.), Flexible word classes: a typological study of underspecified parts-of-speech (book manuscript under review with Oxford University Press).

Don, J. & E. van Lier. Categorization and derivation in flexible and differentiated languages. In J. Rijkhoff & E. van Lier (eds.), Flexible word classes: a typological study of underspecified parts-of-speech.

 To appear

Siewierska, A. & E. van Lier 2012. “Introducing a person to another person”: On the encoding of a non-prototypical three-participant event across Europe. In E. van Gelderen, M. Cennamo and J. Barðdal. (eds.), Variation and change in argument realization. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Siewierska, A. & E. van Lier 2011. Ditransitive constructions with two human non-agentive arguments. Faits de Langues. Special issue on salience, edited by K. Haude & A. Montaut.

Appeared

Fischer, R. & E. van Lier 2011. Cofán subordinate clauses in a typology of subordination. In P. Muysken, K. Haude & R. van Gijn (eds.), Subordination in South American Indian Languages. Amsterdam: Benjamins. pp. 221 – 249.

Hengeveld, K. & E. van Lier. 2010. A functional map of Parts-of-Speech. In A. Malchukov, M. Cysouw & M. Haspelmath (eds.), Sema ntic Maps: Methods and Applications . Special issue of Linguistic Discovery 7/1.

  Van Lier, E. 2009. Parts of Speech and Dependent Clauses. A typological study (LOT dissertation series no. 221). Utrecht: LOT.

Hengeveld, K. & E. van Lier 2008. Lexical and complex heads in Functional Discourse Grammar. Studies in Language 32/3 753 – 785.

Van Lier, E. 2006. Parts-of-speech systems and dependent clauses: a typological study. Folia Linguistica 40/3-4, 239 – 304.

Verhagen, J., E. van Lier, S. Dikker, H. Cardoso, & J. Arends 2006. On the presence versus absence of morphological marking in four Romance-based creoles. In P. Bhatt & I. Plag (eds.), The structure of creole words: Segmental, syllabic and morphological aspects. (Linguistische Arbeiten 505) Tübingen: Niemeyer. pp. 223 – 241.

Dikker, S. & E. van Lier 2005. The interplay between syntactic and conceptual information: Agreement domains in FDG. In J. Lachlan Mackenzie & M. de los Ángeles Gómez-Gonzáles (eds.), Studies in Functional Discourse Grammar. (Linguistic Insights 26) Bern: Peter Lang. pp. 83 – 108.

Van Lier, E. 2005. The explanatory power of typological hierarchies: developmental perspectives on non-verbal predication. In C. de Groot & K. Hengeveld (eds.), Morphosyntactic Expression inFunctional Grammar. (Functional Grammar Series 27) New York/Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 249 – 280.

Van Lier, E. 2004. Straattaal. Neerlandica Extra Muros. Tijdschrift van de Internationale Vereniging voor Neerlandistiek. Februari 2004. Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers.