Dissertation
2020 — van Dooren, Annemarie, Modals and their complements in Dutch and beyond. PhD Dissertation, University of Maryland. [pdf]
Papers
2022 — van Dooren, Annemarie, Anouk Dieuleveut, Ailís Cournane & Valentine Hacquard, ‘Figuring out root and epistemic uses of modals: The role of the input’, Journal of Semantics.
2022 — Dieuleveut, Anouk, Annemarie van Dooren, Ailís Cournane & Valentine Hacquard, ‘’Figuring out modal force: evidence from children’s production and input’. Natural Language Semantics.
2020 — van Dooren, Annemarie, ‘The temporal perspective of epistemics in Dutch’, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24. [pdf]
2019 — van Dooren, Annemarie, Maxime Tulling, Ailís Cournane & Valentine Hacquard, ‘Discovering modal polysemy: aspect might help’, Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development. [pdf].
2019 — Dieuleveut, Anouk, Annemarie van Dooren, Ailís Cournane & Valentine Hacquard, ‘Acquiring the force of modals: Sig you guess what sig means?’, Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development.
2017 — van Dooren, Annemarie, Anouk Dieuleveut, Ailís Cournane & Valentine Hacquard, ‘Learning what must and can must and can mean,’ Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium, 225-235. [pdf]
2017 — van Dooren, Annemarie, ‘Dutch must more structure’, Proceedings of the North-East Linguistic Society, 165-175. [pdf]
2017 — Barbiers, Sjef & Annemarie van Dooren, ‘The Syntax of Modal Verbs,’ The Wiley Blackwell’s Companion to Syntax, Second Edition.
Presentations
2024 — van Dooren, Annemarie. ‘A future for willen‘, Grote Taaldag, Utrecht University. [pdf hand-out]
2023 (invited) — van Dooren, Annemarie. ‘Modals: Searching for the source of their complexities’, Manchester Forum in Linguistics, Manchester University.
2023 (canceled due to illness) — van Dooren, Annemarie and Anouk Dieuleveut. ‘Interpreting past tense epistemic modals in Dutch, English, and French’, NELS 53, Georg-August University Göttingen.
2022 — van Dooren, Annemarie and Anouk Dieuleveut. ‘Past epistemic modals in English, French and Dutch, IMPRS 2022 workshop, Max Planck Institute. [poster]
2022 — Dieuleveut, Anouk and Annemarie van Dooren. ‘Past tense epistemics in Dutch, English and French’, 22nd Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics.
2022 — van Dooren, Annemarie. ‘Past tense epistemics’, Semantics & Cognition meeting, Groningen University.
2021 — van Dooren, Annemarie. ‘Het werkwoord willen’ (The verb to want’), invited talk at the Family Day of the student association for Linguistics TW!ST, Groningen.
2020 — Huang, Nick, Annemarie van Dooren & Gesoel Mendes, ‘Wanting the future: the case of desire and future yao‘, NACCL-32, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT.
2019 — van Dooren, Annemarie, ‘Correlating modal syntax and modal meaning across languages and in language development’, invited talk at the Leiden-Utrecht Semantics Happenings, Utrecht University, Utrecht.
2019 — van Dooren, Annemarie, Nick Huang & Gesoel Mendes, ‘Polysemous want: Language change from a synchronic perspective‘, Formal Diachronic Semantics 4, Ohio State University, Columbus OH.
2019 — van Dooren, Annemarie, ‘The temporal perspective of epistemics in Dutch’, Sinn und Bedeutung 24, Osnabrück University, Osnabrück. [materials] [raw_results]
2019 — van Dooren, Annemarie, ‘Figuring out epistemic uses of English and Dutch modals: The role of aspect’, the 8th Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning (MACSIM), New York University, New York NY.
2018 — van Dooren, Annemarie, Maxime Tulling, Ailis Cournane & Valentine Hacquard, ‘Lexical aspect as a cross-linguistic cue to modal meaning: evidence from Dutch’, Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston MA.
2018 — Dieuleveut, Anouk, Annemarie van Dooren, Ailís Cournane & Valentine Hacquard, ‘Acquiring the force of modals: Sig you guess what sig means?’, Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston MA.
2017 — van Dooren, Annemarie, Anouk Dieuleveut, Ailis Cournane & Valentine Hacquard, ‘Learning what must and can must and can mean’, the Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam.
2017 — van Dooren, Annemarie, Nick Huang & Gesoel Mendes, ‘The future of want‘, the 7th Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning (MACSIM), Georgetown University, Washington DC. [pdf]
2017 — van Dooren, Annemarie, ‘The Georgian modal item unda: Raising versus control’, the East Coast 5 syntax workshop (ECO5), University of Connecticut, Storrs CT.
2016 — van Dooren, Annemarie ‘Dutch must more structure’, the North-East Linguistic Society (NELS), UMass Amherst, Amherst MA.
2015 — van Dooren, Annemarie ‘We must to Newark’, the 5th Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning (MACSIM), University of Delaware, Newark DE.
2015 — van Dooren, Annemarie ‘The history of English modal verbs’, International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), Naples. [pdf]
2015 — van Dooren, Annemarie ‘Modal verbs’, the 13th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE), University Paris-Diderot-7, Paris.
2014 — van Dooren, Annemarie ‘The compositionality of sentences containing modal verbs’, S-Circle, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz CA. [pdf]
2014 — van Dooren, Annemarie ‘Modality and the diagnostic of non-verbal complementation’, the 4th Central European Conference in Linguistics for Postgraduate Students (CECIL), Lublin.
2014 — van Dooren, Annemarie ‘Modal verbs and their complements’, the Syntax Lab, Cambridge University.
2013 — van Dooren, Annemarie, Lotte Hendriks & Ora Matushansky, ‘Resultatives and path complements’, Secondary Predicates in Formal Frameworks, Utrecht University.[pdf].
2012 — van Dooren, Annemarie, Lotte Hendriks & Ora Matushansky, ‘Resultatives’, Rencontres d’Automne de Linguistique Formelle (RalfE), University Paris-8, Paris.