About

I'm a final-year Linguistics PhD student specializing in Aspect and Comparative Syntax. My NWO-funded PhD project at Leiden University (2020-2026) is on the interaction of inner and outer aspect from the perspective of VP decomposition, syntactic cartography and aspectual coercion. My PhD supervisors are Sjef Barbiers, Ronny Boogaart and Rint Sybesma. I have 3.5 years teaching experience at university (BA and MA) level.

My research interests—centered around the syntax/semantics interface—include telicity and argument structure, (parallel) corpus methods in syntax, posture verbs, quotative constructions, and viewpoint aspect in all shapes and sizes (progressive, prospective, ingressive, habitual, etc.). I've also published on argumentation theory, specifically pragma-dialectics. Languages I've worked on include Dutch, Mandarin, pre-Tang Chinese, Afrikaans, German and English.

Publications (Peer-reviewed)

  • Bogaards, Maarten (under revision). Passieve zinnen [Passive voice]. Algemene Nederlandse Spraakkunst [Standard Reference Grammar of Dutch], ed. M. Beliën. 3rd, fully revised edn.
  • Boogaart, Ronny & Maarten Bogaards (in preparation). Aspect. Algemene Nederlandse Spraakkunst [Standard Reference Grammar of Dutch], ed. M. Beliën. 3rd, fully revised edn.

2025

  • Bogaards, Maarten & Roné Wierenga (2025). Aspectual cognate constructions in Afrikaans and Dutch: A language contact approach to prospective and ingressive aspect. Dutch and Contact Linguistics, eds. Christopher Joby & Nicoline van der Sijs. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 279-314. DOIOA

2024

  • Bogaards, Maarten (2024). Aspectual coercion and the decomposition of VP. Proceedings of the 14th Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW in Asia XIV), eds. Xiangyu Li, Zetao Xu, Yuqiao Du, Zhuo Chen, Chenghao Hu, Zhongyang Yu & Victor Junnan Pan. Hong Kong: CUHK, 15-31. OA

2023

  • Bogaards, Maarten & Jens Fleischhauer (2023). Prospective aspect constructions in West Germanic: A comparative corpus study of German and Dutch. Leuvense Bijdragen / Leuven Contributions in Linguistics and Philology 104(1). DOI OA
  • Bogaards, Maarten (2023). Top-down versus bottom-up approaches to aspect: The case of the Dutch prepositional progressive. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 35(4), 311-338. DOI
  • Bogaards, Maarten (2023). Prospectief aspect in het Nederlands: Over op het punt staan en gerelateerde constructies. [Prospective aspect in Dutch.] Nederlandse Taalkunde / Dutch Linguistics 28(1), 104-116. DOI OA

2022

  • Bogaards, Maarten, Ronny Boogaart & Sjef Barbiers (2022). The syntax of progressive and ingressive aanhet-constructions in Dutch. Linguistics in the Netherlands 2022, eds. Jorrig Vogels & Sterre Leufkens. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2-20. DOI
  • Bogaards, Maarten (2022). The discovery of aspect: A heuristic parallel corpus study of ingressive, continuative and resumptive viewpoint aspect. Languages 7(3), 158. DOI Dataset

2021

  • Bogaards, Maarten (2021). "Completely impartial opinion, okay?" An argumentation-theoretical approach to sponsorships on YouTube. Journal of Argumentation in Context 10(3), 368-396. DOI OA

2019

  • Bogaards, Maarten (2019). Posture verbs combined with past participles in Dutch: Fixed or productive patterns? Linguistics in the Netherlands 2019, eds. Janine Berns & Elena Tribushinina. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 67-82. DOI Dataset
  • Bogaards, Maarten. (2019). A Mandarin map for Dutch durativity: Parallel text analysis as a heuristic for investigating aspectuality. Nederlandse Taalkunde / Dutch Linguistics 24(2), 157-193. DOI Dataset

Presentations (*Invited)

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

Awards & Grants

Outreach

2022

2021

2020

Other

Reviews

Education

2018

  • BA Dutch Language & Culture, Leiden University (summa cum laude, GPA 9.0/10)

2020

Teaching

Courses taught as Lecturer @ Leiden University (2020-2023):

  • MA   Comparative Syntax
    •    Elective in (R)MA Linguitics program, taught in 2022-2023.
    •    Designed and taught full course program (13 seminars, except 2 introductory sessions) on the Comparative Syntax of Aspect.
    •    Graded papers together with supervisor (prof.dr. Sjef Barbiers).
    BA1  Taal Mentaal 1  [Intro to Formal Syntax]
    •   Mandatory 1st year course, taught in 2020-2021, 2021-2022, and 2022-2023.
    •   Taught 2-3 weekly seminars, filled in for lectures several times.
    •   Set and graded exams together with supervisor (prof.dr. Sjef Barbiers).
    •   Developed additional course materials, including tree-drawing manual and list of relevant linguistics podcasts.
  • BA2  Taal Mentaal 2  [Intermediate Syntax, Semantics, Morphology]
    •   Mandatory 2nd year course, weekly seminars, taught in 2022-2023.
  • BA3  Taalkunde & Retorica  [Advanced Semantics & Pragmatics]
    •   3rd year elective, taught in 2019-2020. Co-designed and taught full course program (13 seminars). Independently graded papers.
  • BA2  Tekstanalyse  [Discourse Analysis]
    •   2nd year elective, taught in 2020-2021 and 2021-2022. Co-designed and taught full course program (13 seminars). Independently graded papers.
  • BA2  Tekstgenres  [Register & Genre Theory]
    •   2nd year elective, taught in 2021-2022. Co-designed and taught full course program (13 seminars). Independently graded papers.

Manuscripts

2018

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