My main interests lie in the following fields:
In 2018 I defended my PhD thesis "Perception and Predication: A Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis of Dutch Descriptive Perception Verbs as Evidential Copular Verbs" under the supervision of Prof. Mary Dalrymple and Prof. Ash Asudeh at the University of Oxford (Examiners: Prof. Aditi Lahiri and Prof. Gabriele Diewald).
Poortvliet, M. (2017) Proeven as an Acquired Taste: Semantic Change Among Gustatory Verbs, from Early Middle Dutch to Present-Day Dutch. In: Sander Lestrade and Bert Le Bruyn (eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 34, pp. 111-126. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Poortvliet, M. (2017) The Grammaticalization of Dutch klinken. Journal of Historical Linguistics 7(1/2), pp. 190-212. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Poortvliet, M. (2016). Copy Raising in English, German and Dutch: Synchrony and Diachrony. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 28(4), pp. 370-402. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Poortvliet, M. (2015). An LFG approach to Nested Dependencies in Dutch. In: Butt, Miriam and Tracy Holloway King (eds) Proceedings of the LFG2015 Conference, Waseda University, Tokyo. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
University of Amsterdam
Spring 2019
Fall 2018
University of Oxford
Spring 2018
Fall 2017
2013-2015