Hans van de Koot

Status:	Head of Research Department of Linguistics, PhD, Senior Lecturer
Address:	Room 112, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London
Phone:	+44 (0)20 7679 4049
Email:	h.v.d.koot@ucl.ac.uk
Home page:	http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/hans/index.html
Primary Research Dept.:	Linguistics
RAE Research group:	Syntax
Interests:	Syntactic theory, especially the development of a syntactic theory that explains the core properties of grammatical dependencies; the relation of this theory to syntax-external systems; the computational complexity of language recognition problems.

Research Projects

• A Flexible Theory of Topic and Focus Movement (2006-2009)
  The basic idea of the project is that topic and focus movement do not take place in order to check a syntactic feature [+focus] or [+topic] in the specifier of a designated functional projection. In fact, we believe that there is evidence that such features and such projections do not exist. Instead, we argue that topic and focus movement take place in order to facilitate the mapping between syntax and information structure.

Taught Courses

• PLIN1202 Introduction to Generative Grammar 'B'
• PLINGL02 Syntax (MA Linguistics)
• PLINGS03 Syntax Research Seminar (MA Syntax)

Selected Publications

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21 publications found.

• van de Koot,H. (Forthcoming). A'-Scrambling: Wat Markeert Het? Nederlandse Taalkunde . ISSN: 1384-5845
• Neeleman,A., Titov,E., van de Koot,H., Vermeulen,R. (2009). A Syntactic Typology of Topic, Focus and Contrast. in Van Craenenbroeck,J. (ed.) Alternatives to Cartography. Studies in Generative Grammar series. Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN: 978-3-11-020603-6
• Neeleman,A., van de Koot,H. (2009). A Local Encoding of Syntactic Dependencies and its Consequences for the Theory of Movement. Syntax (to appear) . ISSN: 1368-0005
• Neeleman,A., van de Koot,H. (2009). Information-Structural Restrictions on A'-scrambling. The Linguistic Review (to appear) . ISSN: 0167-6318
• Neeleman,A., van de Koot,H. (2009). Scope Inversion (under submission) [Online]
• Neeleman,A., van de Koot,H. (2009). Theoretical Validity and Psychological Reality of the Grammatical Code. in Everaert,M., Lentz,T., De Mulder,H., Nilsen,Ø., Zondervan,A. (ed.) The Linguistics Enterprise: From Knowledge of Language to knowledge in Linguistics (to appear). Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today series. John Benjamins
• Neeleman,A., van de Koot,H. (2008). Dutch Scrambling and the Nature of Discourse Templates. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 11(2), 137-189. ISSN: 1383-4924
• Carston,R., Blakemore,D., van de Koot,H. (2006). Language in Mind: A Tribute to Neil Smith on the Occasion of his Retirement. Lingua, 116 (10), . ISSN: 0024-3841
• Carston,R., Blakemore,D., van de Koot,H. (2006). Neil Smith's linguistics. Lingua 116(10), 1465-1468. ISSN: 0024-3841
• Neeleman,A., van de Koot,H. (2006). On Syntactic and Phonological Representations. Lingua 116(10), 1524-1552. ISSN: 0024-3841 [DOI link]
• Neeleman,A., van de Koot,H. (2006). Syntactic Haplology. in Everaert,M., Van Riemsdijk,H. (ed.) The Blackwell Companion to Syntax, vol IV. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 684-710. ISBN: 1405114851
• van de Koot,H. (2006). Peter W. Culicover & Andrzej Nowak, Dynamical grammar: minimalism, acquisition and change (Foundations of Syntax 2). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xxii+324. Journal of Linguistics 42(2), 452-457. ISSN: 0022-2267
• Neeleman,A., van de Koot,J., Doetjes,J. (2004). Degree Expressions. The Linguistic Review 21(1), 1-66. ISSN: 0167-6318 [Online] [DOI link]
• Van de Koot,H. (2004). Explaining Barss's Generalization. UCL Working Papers in Linguistics (16), 177-195. ISSN: 0956-7194
• van de Koot,H., Mathieu,E. (2003). What's in an Island? UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 15, 277-313. ISSN: 0956-7194
• Neeleman,A., van de Koot,H. (2002). Bare Resultatives. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 6(1), 1-52. ISSN: 1383-4924 [Online] [DOI link]
• Neeleman,A., van de Koot,H. (2002). The Configurational Matrix. Linguistic Inquiry. 33(4), 529-574. ISSN: 0024-3892
• Doetjes,J., Neeleman,A., van de Koot,H. (1998). Degree Expressions and the Autonomy of Syntax. UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 10, 323-368. ISSN: 0956-7194
• van de Koot,H. (1995). The Computational Complexity of Natural Language Recognition. Lingua 97, 37-80. ISSN: 0024-3841
• van de Koot,H. (1992). Word Grammar Recognition is NP-hard. UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 4, 406-416. ISSN: 0956-7194
• van de Koot,H. (1990), An Essay on Grammar-Parser Relations,Publications in Language Sciences series. Series edited by de Haan,G. Wetzels,L., Zonneveld,W.. Dordrecht: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN: 9067654973. 152pp.

Current PhD Students

• Elena Titov
• Nikolaos Velegrakis

Completed PhD Students

• Marco Tamburelli
  The role of Lexical Acquisition in Simultaneous Bilingualism (2007)
• Hitoshi Shiraki
  Economy and the Distribution of Reflexives (2006)
• Eric Mathieu
  The Syntax of Non-Canonical Quantification: A Comparative Study (2002)
• Jonathan White
  An Inquiry into Minimalist Phrase Structure (1999)

(Possibly incomplete list)