My main current research interests in linguistics are: the formalism of phonological representation; poetic meter and the way it travels from one tradition to the next; and language policy. Here are some of my recent papers; for a complete list of publications please see my CV.

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• Bax, P.A., Coppen, P.A.J.M., Evers-Vermeul, J., Glopper, C.M. de, Herten, M., Mantingh, E., Oostendorp, M. van & Voorst. 2021. Bewuste geletterheid in perspectief. Kennis, vaardigheden en inzichten. Nederlands, Vakdidactiek Geesteswetenschappen.

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• Oostendorp, M. van and I.L. Stengs. 2021. Meertensonderzoek in tijden van corona. In: Van Oostendorp, Marc Wolff, Simone (ed.). Viraal Nederland: Taal en cultuur van de eerste golf. Uitgeverij Sterck & De Vreese. 7-13.

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• Oostendorp, M. van. 2021.'Wij zijn nog geen lijk/Wij zijn jullie opa en oma': Persoonlijk voornaamwoorden op Coronagedicht.nl. In: Van Oostendorp, Marc Wolff, Simone (ed.). Viraal Nederland: Taal en cultuur van de eerste golf. Uitgeverij Sterck & De Vreese. 27-40.

 

• Oostendorp, M. van and E. Cavirani. 2020. A theory of the theory of vowels. In: Nasukawa, Kuniya (editors). Morpheme-internal Recursion in Phonology. De Gruyter Mouton. 37-56.

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• Oostendorp, M. van and R. D'Alessandro. 2020. Language Variation and Functional Heads: Magnetic Grammar. Linguistic Analysis 42/4, 405-440. 

 

• Oostendorp, M. van. 2020. Germanic Syllable Structure. In: Putnam, M.T and Page, Richard (ed.). The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics. Chapter 2, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 33-48.

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• Zijlmans, A.H.M., Oostendorp, M. van and Hout, R.W.N.M. van. 2020. Studying in a foreign language. Study performance and experiences of German students at a Dutch university. Language Learning in Higher Education, 10 (1), 25-51. doi: 10.1515/cercles-2020-2017

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• Cavirani, E. and Oostendorp, M. van. 2019. Empty morphemes in Dutch dialect atlases: Reducing morphosyntactic variation by refining emptiness typology. Glossa. A Journal of General Linguistics, 4 (1):88.

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• Oostendorp, M. van. 2019. Language contact and constructed languages. Darquennes, Jeroen Salmons, Joseph Vandenbussche, Wim (ed.). Language Contact. Chapter 11, Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 124-136.

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• Oostendorp, M. van and R. D'Alessandro. 2019. Metaphony as magnetism. In: Grimaldi, Mirko and Lai, Rosangela Franco, Ludovico Baldi, Benedetta (ed.). Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing. 289-306.

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• Studying in a foreign language: Study performance and experiences of German students at a Dutch university
  Paper in Language Learning in Higher Education (August 2020)
   

• Germanic syllable structure
  Chapter for a Handbook on Germanic linguistics. (December 2017).
   

• Language Contact and Constructed Languages
  Chapter for a Handbook on Language contact. (December 2017).
   

• On the Diversity of Linguistic Data and the Integration of the Language Sciences
  Paper with Roberta D'Alessandro (November 2017)
   

• Metaphony as magnetism
  Paper with Roberta D'Alessandro (October 2017)
   

• On silent markedness
  Paper together with Edoardo Cavirani on different kinds of phonological empty positions. (February 2017).

 

• Dual metrics in the Tsjebbe Hettinga's poetry
  Paper on the intriguing metrics of probably the most famous Frisian poet ever. (February 2017).

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• The head in poetic metrics
  Paper on what phonology and poetry can see from each other (January 2017).

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• Van Oostendorp, M. 2015. Parameters in phonological analysis: stress. In A. Fabregas, J. Mateu, & M. Putnam (Eds.), Contemporary Linguistic Parameters. (pp. 234-258). (Contemporary Studies in Linguistics). London: Bloomsbury.

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