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Zwart, Cornelius Jan-Wouter was born on September 20, 1960 in Oss, N Brabant, The Netherlands. Son of Simon and Hendrika Maria Helena Eugenie (Kruijsse) Zwart.
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Morphosyntax of Verb Movement discusses the phenomenon of Dutch, present in many Germanic languages, that the finite verb is fronted in main clauses but not in embedded clauses. The theoretical framework adopted is the so-called Minimalist Program of Chomsky (1995), the latest developmental stage of generative grammar. Taking issue with previous analyses, the author argues that phrase structure in Dutch is uniformly head initial, and that the finite verb moves to different positions in subject initial main clauses and in inversion constructions. The book contains lucid and detailed discussion of many theoretical issues in connection with the Minimalist Program, such as the relation between syntax and morphology, the nature of syntactic licensing, and the structure of the functional domain. At the same time, it offers a survey of the properties of Dutch syntax, a discussion of previous analyses of Dutch syntax and a wealth of material from dialects of Dutch and other Germanic languages.
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Zwart, Cornelius Jan-Wouter was born on September 20, 1960 in Oss, N Brabant, The Netherlands. Son of Simon and Hendrika Maria Helena Eugenie (Kruijsse) Zwart.
Kandidaat Classics, University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 1983. Master of Arts in General Linguistics, University Groningen, The Netherlands, 1988. Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics cum laude, University Groningen, The Netherlands, 1993.
Research assistant, U. Groningen, The Netherlands, 1989-1993; assistant professor, U. Groningen, 1993-1995; researcher, Nederlandes Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, The Hague/Groningen, since 1995. Staff member Control European Summer School in Generative Linguistics, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia, 1995-1996.
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Member Linguistic Society of America, Linguistic Society of The Netherlands, G.L.O.W.
Married Johanna Cornelia Ramselaar.