Publications & Research

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Papers and book chapters

2012

Acepted in Press. De Vos, M. Homogeneity in subject-verb concord in South African English. To appear in Language Matters.

De Vos, M. & Mitchley, H. 2012. Subject marking and preverbal coordination in Sesotho: A perspective from Optimality Theory. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 30 pp155-170.

Accepted in Press. Estimated publication date 2013. De Vos, M. Afrikaans mixed adposition orders as a PF-linearization effect. To appear in Eds. Biberauer, T. and Sheehan, M. Theoretical Approaches to Disharmonic Word Orders. Oxford University Press. (Based on a conference presentation at the Theoretical Approaches to Disharmonic Word Orders Conference, Newcastle University, May 30th-June 1st 2009. [Draft version of the paper pre-review De Vos 2009 Afrikaans Adpositions] )

De Vos, M. 2012 Heads and specifiers: on spec-head word orders in English. In Zwart, J-W (Ed), Groninger Arbeiten zur germanistischen Linguistik, pp 53--78.

2011

De Vos, M. and Belluigi, D. 2011 Formative assessment as mediation Formative assessment as mediation . Perspectives in Education, 29(2), pp39--47.

2009

De Vos M. 2009. Comparing Afrikaans morpho-syntactic variation in a South African underdeveloped context. Journal of Macrolinguistics 3 pp 25--45. [Version before reviewers' comments DeVos 2009- comparing Afr Variation] Originally presented as The impact of economic development on Rural Afrikaans Dialects in Kai !Garib at KCTOS 2008 (Knowledge, Creativity and Transformations of Societies). 6--9 December, Vienna, Austria.
De Vos, M. 2009. An argument for VP coordination: Scene-setting coordination and weak islands. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 27(1): 1--23.[Abstract DeVos 2009 VP coordination]

2008

De Vos, M. 2008. Deriving Narrow Syntax through constraints on information structure: a parallel between linguistic models of displacement and database theory. Lingua 118 (2008) 1864–1899. [Accepted Authors Manuscript version Devos-Vicente-wccfl proceedings cornr--prefinal.pdf De Vos 2008 Lingua Web Version ] [DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2008.05.002].

2007

De Vos, M. 2007. Towards a definition of SUBJECT in binding domains and subject-oriented anaphora. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 37, pp23--65. [Pre-editorial version De Vos 2007 SPIL]
De Vos, M. 2007. And as an aspectual connective in the event structure of pseudo-coordinative constructions. In Connectives as Discourse Landmarks, Celle, Agnes and Ruth Huart (eds.), 49--70. Based on the talk, Connectives in verbal reduplication, pseudo coordination and the aspectual system, presented at the International Conference on English Linguistics in Paris, France (26--28 May 2005). [Draft pre-editorial De Vos 2007 Connectives Pre-Editorial].

2006 and before

De Vos, M. Quirky verb-second in Afrikaans: complex predicates and head movement. In Hartmann, J.M. and Molnarfi, L. (2006) Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax: From A(frikaans) to Z(urich German), pp89--114. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.Presented at the Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 20 in Tilburg, The Netherlands (9--11 June 2005). [Draft pre-editorial De Vos 2006 CGSW Draft].
De Vos, M. Notes on Noun Morphology and Clefting Constructions in Kotoko. In Schmidt, B., Odden, D. & Holmberg, A. 2002. Some aspects of the grammar of Zina Kotoko, Lincom, pp58--71.
De Vos, M. Pseudo co-ordination is not subordination. In Cornips, L. & Doetjes, J. (Eds). 2004. Linguistics in the Netherlands 2004, John Benjamins, Amsterdam,pp181--192.

Reviews

De Vos, M. 2008. Review of: Roland Hinterhölzl,Scrambling, remnant movement, and restructuring in West Germanic. Journal of Linguistics, 44, pp243-247.
De Vos, M. 2007. Events: A Study in the Semantics of Lexical Aspect, Rothstein Susan. In Lingua (117) 1490--1496.

Conference proceedings

De Vos, M. SUBJECTHOOD AND PHRASE STRUCTURE: evidence from long-distance anaphora. (2006) Proceedings of SICOL 2006, pp219--228. Presented at SICOL 2006 Seoul, 24-26 July 2006. (A preliminary version of this paper was also presented at the general meeting of the Linguistics Society of Southern Africa (LSSA/SAALA) at University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (5--7 July 2006).
De Vos, M. and Vicente, L. Coordination under RNR (CoRNR): at the intersection of Syntax and PF pp97-104. in Proceedings of the 24th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. John Alderete, Chung-hye Han, and Alexei Kochetov (Eds). Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA.[ De Vos and Vicente CoRNR, Presented at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 24, 18-20 March 2005. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.
De Vos, M. Past Participles in Afrikaans Dialects and Dutch. In Harding, G. & Tsujimura, M. (Eds), 2003, Proceedings of the 22nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, pp519-532, Cascadilla Press, Somerville, MA.
De Vos, M. Dutch and Afrikaans inseparable prefixes. In Markopoulos, T., Salamoura, A., Skoufaki, S., & Hall, D. (Eds), 2003 Proceedings of the First Postgraduate Conference on Language Research. pp105-111, Cambridge, UK.
De Vos, M. Verbal compounding and complex initials. In Austin, D., Chondrogianni, V., Daskalaki, E., Katsos, N., Mavrogiorgos, M., Newton, G., Orfanidou, E., Reeve, M.J. & Srioutai, J. (Eds). Proceedings of the Second Postgraduate Conference on Language Research 2004, Cambridge UK.

Edited Volumes

Blaho, S., Vicente, L. & De Vos, M. (Eds).Proceedings of Console XII. 2004. http://www.sole.leidenuniv.nl.
Arsenijevic, B., Elouazizi, N., Salzman, M. & Vos, M. (Eds). 2004. Leiden working papers in linguistics. http://www.ulcl.leidenuniv.nl/index.php3?m=7&c=68
Van Koppen, M., Sio, J. & De Vos, M. (Eds). 2003. Proceedings of Console XI. http://www.sole.leidenuniv.nl.
Van Koppen, M., Sio, J. & De Vos, M. (Eds). 2002. Proceedings of Console X. http://www.sole.leidenuniv.nl.

Dissertations and books

De Vos, M. The syntax of pseudo-coordination in English and Afrikaans. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Leiden Centre for Linguistics. Published by Igitur Publishing, Utrecht The Netherlands.[ De Vos 2005 Dissertation Complete Text] [Link to off site download page].
De Vos, M. 2001. Afrikaans verb clusters: A functional-head analysis. Master's thesis, University of Tromsø, Norway.

Invited talks

De Vos, M. 2008. Progress Report: Comparing syntactic variation in a South African underdeveloped context.Presented at the Workshop European Dialect Syntax III. Venice 18-21 September 2008.

Group Research

This category is for research conducted in group research projects and for to which I did not contribute a substantial amount of work.

V. de Klerk, R. Adendorff, M. de Vos, S. Hunt, T. Niesler, S.R. Simango and L. Todd. (2006) Educated mother-tongue South African English: a corpus approach. Language Matters 37(2) pp. 206 --226
V. de Klerk, R. Adendorff, M. de Vos, S. Hunt, T. Niesler, S.R. Simango and L. Todd.(2006) Educated mother-tongue South African English: a corpus approach ICAME Conference, Helsinki, Finland, May 2006. (Presented by Prof. V. de Klerk).

Current drafts, recent unpublished research and some selected presentations not mentioned elsewhere

De Vos, M. 2012. Normalization Theory and Evolution of Language. Presentation at University of the North West, 24 August 2012.
De Vos, M. 2009. Expletives on the interface: Linearization and PF output conditions. Presentation at the Leiden University Wednesday Syntax Meeting 24 June 2009. [Draft De Vos 2009 Expletives on the Interface]
De Vos, M. 2009. Adpositions at the interface. Presentation at the Midweek Utrecht Syntax Talks (MUST) series.17 June 2009.
De Vos, M. 2008. The configurational nature of EPP. Presentation at the LSSA Stellenbosch 17--19 January 2008.

De Vos, M. 2007. Reconceptualizing Afrikaans variation. Presented at LSSA Potchefstroom, 4-6 July.
De Vos, M. Pseudo coordinative predicates, agreement and Afrikaans. Presented at Syntax Colloquium of the Linguistics Department at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. 11 November 2004, Amherst MA.