Prof.dr. A. (Arie) Verhagen
Position:
- Professor
- Cognitive linguistics
| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 4152 |
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| E-Mail: | arie.verhagen@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics, LUCL Nederlands |
| Office Address: |
Witte Singel-complex P.N. van Eyckhof 1 2311 BV Leiden Room number 1.04a |
| Personal Homepage: | www.arieverhagen.nl |
Research
- construction grammar
- usage-based linguistic theory
- language and (cultural) evolution
- subjectivity/perspective in grammar and discourse
- causality
- stylistics
Publications
- Verhagen, Arie (2009), The conception of constructions as complex signs. Emergence of structure and reduction to usage. Constructions and Frames 1: 119-152.
- Verhagen, Arie (2005), Constructions of Intersubjectivity. Discourse, Syntax and Cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Extended paperback edition, 2007).
- Verhagen, Arie (2005), Constructiegrammatica en ‘usage based’ taalkunde. Nederlandse Taalkunde 10-3/4: 197-222.
- Verhagen, Arie and Suzanne Kemmer (1997). Interaction and causation: Causative constructions in modern standard Dutch. Journal of Pragmatics 27, 61-82.
- Verhagen, Arie (1986), Linguistic Theory and the Function of Word Order in Dutch. A study on interpretive aspects of the order of adverbials and noun phrases. Dordrecht/Berlin: Foris/Mouton de Gruyter
Teaching activities
Since 1978 I have taught courses on many different topics, at different levels. The topics include:
Elementary level:
- introduction to linguistics
- traditional sentence analysis
- generative grammar
- psycholinguistics
Since 2004, I am actively involved in developing the teaching programme of the Leiden PRE-University College for motivated and talented high school students; I am coordinator of one of the five courses, and contribute to two other ones.
Undergraduate level, after year 1:
- corpus linguistics
- discourse analysis
- psycholinguistics
- construction grammar
- semantics and pragmatics
- psycholinguistics
- specific topics: language use in electronic media, language & gender, stylistics
Since 2003, I teach a minor programme ('Systems and memes', colloquium) for selected students from all fields of science, on approaches to philosophy and history of science, in particular evolutionary approaches to language, culture, and cognition, in which special attention is being paid to similarities and differences between sciences of language and culture on the one hand, and natural sciences on the other (see URL: http://www.studiegidsen.leidenuniv.nl/index.php3?m=1210&c=1531).
Graduate level:
Advanced general courses on theories of language, in particular syntax, semantics, and pragmatics; advanced courses on specific topics: adverbial phrases, information structure, passive and causative constructions, accentuation, subordination and clause combining, metaphors and cultural cognitive models, perspective and subjectivity.
For the Dutch national graduate school of linguistics LOT I have taught courses individually as well as jointly with others, on my own research topics and some general ones (overview of cognitive linguistics; connectionism in psychology and linguistics). The most recent LOT-course I taught was "Fixed Expressions: theory, usage and process" (Leiden, summer 2005, together with Joost Schilperoord from Tilburg University).
At the Australian Linguistic Institute held at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, I have taught a course on grammar in cognitive linguistics. The Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) had funded the trip to Australia, and a visit to four Universities following it.
I have been guest professor teaching short courses (varying between 2 days and 2 weeks) at the Universities of Viena (Austria), Budapest, Debrecen (Hungary), and Potchefstroom (South-Africa).
Curriculum Vitae
Consulting editorships
- From 1992 until 1996, and since 2005: consulting editor for Cognitive Linguistics.
- Since 1995: member of the editorial board of Voortgang. Jaarboek voor de Neerlandistiek.
- Member of the advisory board for the Algemene Nederlandse Spraakkunst ('General Grammar of Dutch', ANS, second edition published 1997).
- From 1997 until 2005: consulting editor for Taalbeheersing.
- Since 1998: consulting editor for Gramma/TTT.
- Since 2000: consulting editor for Nederlandse Taalkunde.
- Since 2001: consulting editor for neerlandistiek.nl (to be found at http://www.neerlandistiek.nl/)
I have regularly acted as reviewer for other journals, for book proposals to major publishers in the field of linguistics (Benjamins, CUP, Mouton de Gruyter, OUP), for grant proposals in linguistics and in cognitive science for NWO, ESF, and the national research councils of Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, and Norway, and as external reviewer for tenure/promotion proposals for universities in Belgium, Great Britain, and the USA.
Main administrative positions (in chronological order)
- Secretary of the Working Group 'Syntax and Semantics' of the Foundation for Linguistic Research in the Netherlands.
- Member of the reorganization commission of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the Free University in Amsterdam.
- Chairman of the Research Program Commission of the Department of Linguistics at the Free University in Amsterdam.
- Secretary of the Board of the program of Dutch Language and Literature at the Free University in Amsterdam.
- Member of the University Commission for Innovative Teaching Projects of the Free University in Amsterdam.
- Secretary of the Scientific Board of the Centre for Language and Communication at Utrecht University.
- Member of the Research Commission of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Utrecht University.
- Chairman of the Board of the Department of Dutch Language and Culture at Leiden University (1999-2001; since 2004).
- Chairman of the 'Landelijke Vereniging Van Neerlandici' (LVVN, National Association of Graduates in Dutch Language and Culture, 2000-2006).
- Chairman of the Board of the University of Leiden Centre for Linguistics (ULCL, 2001-2005).
- Member of the board of the Dutch National Graduate School of Linguistics LOT (since 2001).
- Chairman of the Teaching Institute NDD (since 2004).
- Chairman of the Board of the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL, founded in 2005; since 2005).
- Chairman of the Permanent Commission on Teaching and Education of the Leiden Faculty of Humanities (since 2006).
2011
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Brandt, S. & Verhagen, A. & Lieven, E. & Tomasello, M. (2011)
German children’s productivity with simple transitive and complement-clause constructions: Testing the effects of frequency and diversity. Cognitive Linguistics, 22 (2), pp. 325-357.
(Article)
2010
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Landsbergen, F. & Lachlan, R.F. & Cate, C.J., ten & Verhagen, A. (2010)
A cultural evolutionary model of patterns in semantic change. Linguistics, 48, pp. 363-390.
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Persoon, I. & Sanders, T. & Quené, H. & Verhagen, A. (2010)
Een coördinerende omdat-constructie in gesproken Nederlands? Tekstlinguïstische en prosodische aspecten. Nederlandse Taalkunde, 15 (3), pp. 259-282.
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Verhagen, A. (2010)
Taalkundig Denken. Denken als een taalkundige. Levende Talen Magazine, 97, pp. 20-24.
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Verhagen, A. (2010)
Usage, structure, scientific explanation, and the role of abstraction, by linguists and by language users. In: Boye, K. & Engberg-Pedersen, E. (Eds.), Language Usage and Language Structure (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs), 213. , pp. 45-72. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
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Zuidema, W. & Verhagen, A. (2010)
What are the unique design features of language? Formal tools for comparative claims. Adaptive Behavior, 18, pp. 48-65.
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Zuidema, W. & Verhagen, A. (2010)
What are the unique design features of language? Formal tools for comparative claims. Adaptive Behavior, 18, pp. 48-65.
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Verhagen, A. (2010)
What do you think is the proper place of recursion? Conceptual and empirical issues. In: Hulst, H., van der (Ed.), Recursion and Human Language (Studies in Generative Grammar), 104. , pp. 93-110. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
2009
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Stukker, N.M. & Sanders, T.J.M & Verhagen, A. (2009)
Categories of subjectivity in Dutch causal connectives: a usage-based analysis. In: Sanders, T.J.M. & Sweetser, E. (Eds.), Causal Categories in Discourse and Cognition (Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]), 44. , pp. 119-171. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
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Verhagen, A. (2009)
The conception of constructions as complex signs. Emergence of structure and reduction to usage. Constructions and Frames, 1, pp. 119-152.
(Article)
2008
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Stukker, N.M. & Sanders, T. & Verhagen, A. (2008)
Causality in verbs and in discourse connectives. Converging evidence of cross-level parallels in Dutch linguistic categorization. Journal of Pragmatics, 40, pp. 1296-1322.
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Verhagen, A. (2008)
Intersubjectivity and explanation in linguistics - a reply to Hinzen & Van Lambalgen. Cognitive Linguistics, 19, pp. 125-143.
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Verhagen, A. (2008)
Intersubjectivity and the architecture of the language system. In: Zlatev, J., Racine, T.P., Sinha, C., Itkonen, E. (Eds.), The Shared Mind: Perspectives on Intersubjectivity (Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research), 12. , pp. 307-331. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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Verhagen, A. (2008)
Syntax, recursion, productivity – a usage-based perspective on the evolution of grammar. In Lubotsky, A., Lubotsky, A., Schaeken, J. (Eds.) Evidence and Counter-Evidence. Essays in Honour of Frederik Kortlandt. Volume 2: General Linguistics Vol. 33. Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics (pp. 399-414). Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2007
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Verhagen, A. (2007)
Construal and perspectivisation. In: Geeraerts, D. & Cuyckens, H. (Eds.), Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics), 1. , pp. 48-81. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Verhagen, A. (2007)
Constructions of Intersubjectivity. Discourse, Syntax, and Cognition (herziene uitgave; 1e uitgave 2005). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Verhagen, A. (2007)
English constructions from a Dutch perspective: Where are the differences? In Hannay, M. & Steen, G. (Eds.) Structural-functional studies in English grammar. In honour of Lachlan Mackenzie (pp. 257-274). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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Verhagen, A. & Wouden, A., van der & Lenteren, L., van (2007)
Waar synoniem synoniem voor staat. In Moerdijk, F., Santen, A., van, Tempelaars, R. (Eds.) Leven met woorden. Opstellen aangeboden aan Piet van Sterkenburg bij zijn afscheid als directeur van het Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie en als hoogleraar Lexicologie aan de Universiteit Leiden (pp. 445-455). Leiden: Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2006
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Verhagen, A. (2006)
Dreigt Polysemie uit de hand te lopen? Een oefening in semantische categorisering. Voortgang - Jaarboek voor de Neerlandistiek, 24, pp. 159-168.
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Schilperoord, J. & Verhagen, A. (2006)
Grammar and language production: Where do function words come from? In Luchjenbroers, J. (Ed.) Cognitive Linguistics Investigations. Across languages, fields and philosophical boundaries (pp. 139-168). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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Hüning, M. & Vogl, U. & Wouden, A., van der & Verhagen, A. (Eds.) (2006)
Nederlands tussen Duits en Engels. Handelingen van de workshop op 30 september en 1 oktober 2005 aan de Freie Universität Berlin. Leiden: SNL.
(Book editorial) -
Verhagen, A. (2006)
On subjectivity and ‘long distance Wh-movement’. In Athanasiadou, A, Canakis, C., Cornille, B. (Eds.) Subjectification. Various Paths to Subjectivity (pp. 323-346). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
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Hulshof, H. & Rietmeijer, M. & Verhagen, A. (2006)
Taalkunde voor de tweede fase van het VWO. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
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Hulshof, H. & Rietmeijer, M. & Verhagen, A. (2006)
Taalkunde voor de tweede fase van het VWO - Docentenhandleiding. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
(Book (monograph))
2005
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Verhagen, A. (2005)
Constructiegrammatica en 'usage based' taalkunde. Nederlandse Taalkunde, 10, pp. 197-222.
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Verhagen, A. (2005)
Constructions of Intersubjectivity. Discourse, Syntax, and Cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(Book (monograph))
2004
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Verhagen, A. (2004)
Language, culture, nature: exploring new perspectives. In Soares da Silva, A., Torres, A., Gonçalves, M. (Eds.) Linguagem, Cultura e Cognição: Estudos de Linguística Cognitiva (pp. 165-187). Coimbra: Almedina.
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Verhagen, A. (2004)
T.R. - Cognitive Linguistics. Cognitive Linguistics, 15
(Contribution for newspaper or weekly magazine)
2003
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Verhagen, A. (2003)
Hoe het Nederlands zich een eigen weg baant. Vergelijkende en historische observaties vanuit een constructie-perspectief. Nederlandse Taalkunde, 8, pp. 328-346.
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Verhagen, A. (2003)
Hoe kan een woord zijn negatieve lading nou verliezen, laat staan integendeel? Over betekenisverschuiving bij ontkennende woorden. In Stroop, J. (Ed.) Waar gaat het Nederlands naar toe? Panorama van een taal (pp. 308-318). Amsterdam: Bert Bakker.
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Verhagen, A. & Weijer, J.M., van de (2003)
Introduction. In Verhagen, A. & Weijer, J.M., van de (Eds.) Usage-Based Approaches to Dutch (pp. 1-6). Utrecht: LOT.
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Verhagen, A. (2003)
Semantics, Inferential Cognition, and Understanding Text. In Wolde, E., van (Ed.) Job 28. Cognition in Context (pp. 231-251). Leiden/Boston: Brill.
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Verhagen, A. (2003)
T.R. - Cognitive Linguistics. Cognitive Linguistics, 14
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Verhagen, A. (2003)
The Dutch way. In Verhagen, A. & Weijer, J.M., van de (Eds.) Usage-Based Approaches to Dutch (pp. 27-57). Utrecht: LOT.
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Verhagen, A. & Weijer, J.M., van de (Eds.) (2003)
Usage-Based Approaches to Dutch. Utrecht: LOT.
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Verhagen, A. (2003)
Wie sich Sprachen ihren Weg bahnen. Spezifische vs. allgemeine grammatikalische Konstruktionen im Vergleich. In Uffelen, H., van, Weissenböck, M.E., Baalen, C., van (Eds.) Sprache und Identität. Akten des Symposiums zum 10-jährigen Bestehen der Nederlandistik am 18. und 19. Oktober 2002 in Wien (pp. 223-234). Wien: Edition Praesens.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2002
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Verhagen, A. (2002)
From parts to wholes and back again. Cognitive Linguistics, 13, pp. 403-439.
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Verhagen, A. (2002)
Retorica en Cognitie. In: Janssen, Th.A.J.M. (Ed.), Taal in gebruik. Een inleiding in de taalwetenschap, pp. 97-110. Den Haag: Sdu Uitgevers.
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Verhagen, A. (2002)
T.R. - Cognitive Linguistics. Cognitive Linguistics, 13
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Janssen, Th.A.J.M. & Verhagen, A. (2002)
Zinnen en cognitie. In: Janssen, Th.A.J.M. (Ed.), Taal in gebruik. Een inleiding in de taalwetenschap, pp. 77-96. Den Haag: Sdu Uitgevers.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
2001
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Anbeek van der Meijden, A.G.H. & Verhagen, A. (2001)
Over stijl. www.neerlandistiek.nl, 1 (1), pp. 1-26.
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Verhagen, A. (2001)
Subordination and discourse segmentation revisited, or: Why matrix clauses may be more dependent than complements. In: Sanders, T., Schilperoord, J., Spooren, W. (Eds.), Text Representation. Linguistic and psychological aspects (Human Cognitive Processing), 8. , pp. 337-357. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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Verhagen, A. (2001)
T.R. - Cognitive Linguistics. Cognitive Linguistics, 12
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Verhagen, A. (2001)
Terug naar Want en Omdat. In Dongelmans, B.P.M., Lalleman, J.A., Praamstra, O.J. (Eds.) Kerven in een rots. Opstellen over Nederlandse taalkunde, letterkunde en cultuur, aangeboden aan Jan W. de Vries bij zijn afscheid als hoogleraar Dutch Studies aan de Universiteit Leiden (pp. 107-119). Leiden: Stichting Neerlandistiek Leiden.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2000
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Verhagen, A. (2000)
Achter het Nederlands. Over interacties tussen taal en achtergrondcognitie. (oratie). Leiden: Universiteit Leiden.p. 29.
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Verhagen, A. (2000)
Concession implies causality, though in some other space. In Couper-Kuhlen, E. & Kortmann, B. (Eds.) Cause-Condition-Concession-Contrast: Cognitive and discourse pespectives (pp. 361-380). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
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Verhagen, A. (2000)
Interpreting Usage: Construing the history of Dutch causal verbs. In: Barlow, M. & Kemmer, S. (Eds.), Usage-Based Models of Language, pp. 261-286. Stanford, CA: CSLI-Publications.
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Verhagen, A. (2000)
T.R. - Cognitive Linguistics. Cognitive Linguistics, 11
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Verhagen, A. (2000)
The girl that promised to become something: An exploration into diachronic subjectification in Dutch. In Shannon, Th.F. & Snapper, J.P. (Eds.) The Berkeley Conference on Dutch Linguistics 1997: The Dutch Language at the Millennium (pp. 197-208). Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
1999
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Verhagen, A. (1999)
T.R. - Cognitive Linguistics. Cognitive Linguistics, 10
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Verhagen, A. & Vos, J. (1999)
Tekstgenres en taalgebruik: passieven in bijsluiters. Tekst[blad], 5, pp. 25-28.
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Verhagen, A. & Stukker, N.M. & Sanders, T. (1999)
Waar een wil is, is geen wet. De categorisering van causale relaties binnen en tussen zinnen. Gramma/TTT (Dordrecht), 7, pp. 66-86.
(Article)
1998
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Verhagen, A. (1998)
Changes in the use of Dutch doen and the nature of semantic knowledge. In: Tieken-Boon Van Ostade, I., Wal, M., van der, Leuvensteijn, A., van (Eds.), DO in English, Dutch and German. History and present-day variation, pp. 103-119. Amsterdam/Münster: Stichting Neerlandistiek/Nodus.
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Verhagen, A. (1998)
T.R. - Cognitive Linguistics. Cognitive Linguistics, 9
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Wal, M.J., van der & Besten, H., den & Trommelen, M. & Verhagen, A. (1998)
T.R. - Nederlandse Taalkunde. Nederlandse Taalkunde, 3
(Contribution for newspaper or weekly magazine)