Below you can find Hedde Zeijlstra's publications: book, volumes, journal publications, book chapters and a number of other papers, some of them that haven't yet made it into a full publication. You can find his Google Scholar profile here. In case you cannot access some document, or if you want a copy of another paper, feel free to contact Hedde.
Books - Edited - Journal articles - Refereed chapters - Proceedings - Miscellaneous
Books
In prep. H. Zeijlstra. De vorm van taal [The form of language]. Popular scientific book on linguistics. Amsterdam: Wereldbibliotheek.
In press. O. Koeneman & H. Zeijlstra. Introducing syntax. Second edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
In press. H. Zeijlstra. The splendid simplicity of language. English adaptation of my 2020 Dutch popular scientific book. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2026. O. Koeneman & H. Zeijlstra. Introducing syntax. Simplified translated Chinese edition. Southwest Jiaotong University Press.
2026. H. Zeijlstra. Die geniale Einfachheit der Sprache. German translation of my 2020 Dutch popular scientific book. Hamburg: Buske Verlag.
2023. H. Zeijlstra. De betekenis van woorden [The meaning of words]. Popular scientific book on linguistics. Amsterdam: Wereldbibliotheek. Link
2022. H. Zeijlstra. Negation and negative dependencies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Link
2022. A. Banga, P. Poelmans, J. Sweep & V. Verhagen (eds.). Handboek Taalkunde ('Handbook linguistics'). Textbook on linguistics for future language teachers in secondary education. Co-responsibility for the syntax part with O. Koeneman. Bussum: Coutinho. Link
2020. H. Zeijlstra. De geniale eenvoud van taal ('The brilliant simplicity of language'). Popular scientific book on language and linguistics. Amsterdam: Wereldbibliotheek. Link
2017. O. Koeneman & H. Zeijlstra. Introducing syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Link
2004. H. Zeijlstra. Sentential Negation and Negative Concord. PhD Dissertation University of Amsterdam. Utrecht: LOT Publications. Download
Edited volumes/journals
2023. J. Goncharov & H. Zeijlstra (eds.). Agency and Intentions in Language. Current Research in the Semantic-Pragmatics Interface (CRiSPI). Leiden: Brill. Link
2022. S. Sundaresan & H. Zeijlstra (eds.). The grammar of Agree(ment) and Reference. Special Issue of Glossa: 7. Download
2015. E. Csipak & H. Zeijlstra (eds). Proceedings of Sinn & Bedeutung 19. Göttingen: LinG. Download
2012. P. Dekker & H. Zeijlstra (eds). Concord Phenomena and Uninterpretablity. Special Issue of the Journal of Semantics 29:3. Link
2010. D. Penka & H. Zeijlstra (eds). Negation and Polarity. Special Issue of Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 28:4. Link
2007. H. Zeijlstra & J.P. Söhn (eds). Proceedings of the Workshop on Negation and Polarity. Tübingen: UB/SFB 441. Download
2006. P. Dekker & H. Zeijlstra (eds). Concord Phenomena and the Syntax-Semantics Interface. Malaga: ESSLLI. Link
Journal articles
Submitted. H. Zeijlstra. Selection and Adjunction. Download
Submitted. O. Koeneman & H. Zeijlstra. Pro drop and the morphological structure of inflection. Download
Revisions. K. Branan & H. Zeijlstra. Head movement and linear edges. Download
Revisions. Z. Mirrazi & Hedde Zeijlstra. A unified approach to Neg-Raising. Download
Revisions. C. Kauf & H. Zeijlstra. Underspecified (Embedded) Tense Semantics. Download
Revisions. J. Goncharov, S. Buchszyk, F. Constantino, I. Feldhausen, Th. Weskott & H. Zeijlstra. Testing amelioration of sentences with subject obviation.
In press. C. Halpert & H. Zeijlstra. Off Phases: It’s All Relative(ized). Linguistic Inquiry. Download
In press. H. Karawani & H. Zeijlstra. Past and Present Futurates: The Role of Tense and Modality. Journal of Linguistics. Download
2026. Th. McFadden, S. Sundaresan & H. Zeijlstra. On the nature of crosslinguistic variation: Insights from anaphora. Constellations 4. Download
2025. S. Keine & H. Zeijlstra. Clause-internal successive cyclicity: Phasality or DP intervention?. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 43, 1119–1182. Download
2025 S. Alexeyenko & H. Zeijlstra. Linearization of complex modifiers: Ways of (dis)obeying the Head-Final Filter. Linguistic Inquiry. Download
2024. H. Zeijlstra. Two varieties of Korean: rightward head movement or polarity sensitivity? Linguistic Inquiry 55: 622–641. Download
2024. B. Kamali & H. Zeijlstra. Negative dependencies in Turkish. Languages 9: 342. Download
2023. H. Zeijlstra Pas de Problème: The Distribution and Nature of Double Negation in French and Other Romance Negative Concord Languages. Languages 8: 118. Download
2022. H. Zeijlstra. FOFC and what left-right asymmetries may tell us about syntactic structure building. Journal of Linguistics 1-35. Download
2022. R. Pfau, T. Makharoblidze & H. Zeijlstra. Negation and Negative Concord in Georgian Sign Language. Frontiers in psychology 13: 734845. Download
2022. J. Goncharov & H. Zeijlstra. Parasitic licensing in uncertainty. Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 14: 61-84. Download
2021. J. Lin, F. Weerman & H. Zeijlstra. NPIs of different strengths: acquisition and beyond. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. Download
2021 S. Iatridou & H. Zeijlstra. The complex beauty of boundary adverbials: in years and until. Linguistic Inquiry 52: 89-142. Download
2019. B. Bjorkman & H. Zeijlstra. Checking up on (Phi-) Agree. Linguistic Inquiry 50: 527-569. Download
2018. J. Lin, F. Weerman & H. Zeijlstra. Acquisition of the Dutch NPI hoeven 'need': From lexical frames to abstract knowledge. Language Acquisition 28: 155-177. Download
2017. H. Zeijlstra. Universal Positive Polarity Items. Glossa 2: 91. Download
2017. H. Zeijlstra. Does NEG-Raising involve NEG-Raising? Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy. Published online. Download
2017. H. Zeijlstra & D. Goddard. On Berbice Dutch VO status. Language sciences 60: 120-132. Download
2016. H. Zeijlstra. Diachronic developments in the domain of negation. Language & Linguistics Compass 10: 284–295. Download
2016. H. Zeijlstra. Negation and Negative Dependencies. Annual Review of Linguistics 2: 233-254. Download
2016. S. Miyagawa, N. Nishioka, & H. Zeijlstra. Negative sensitive items and the discourse-configurational nature of Japanese. Glossa 1: 33. Download
2015. J. Ling, F. Weerman & H. Zeijlstra. Emerging NPIs: the acquisition of Dutch hoeven (‘need’). The Linguistic Review 32: 333-374. Download
2015. H. Zeijlstra. Let’s talk about you and me. Journal of Linguistics 51: 465-500. Download
2014. O. Koeneman & H. Zeijlstra. The Rich Agreement Hypothesis Rehabilitated. Linguistic Inquiry 45: 571 – 615. Download
2014. E. Veenendaal, K. Straatjes & H. Zeijlstra. What negation can tell us about the origin of African American Vernacular English. Linguistics in Amsterdam 7: 25–44. Download
2013. S. Iatridou & H. Zeijlstra. Negation, polarity and deontic modals. Linguistic Inquiry 44: 529-568. Download
2013. H. Zeijlstra. Not in the first place. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 31: 865-900. Download
2013. H. Karawani & H. Zeijlstra. The semantic contribution of the past tense morpheme kaan in Palestinian counterfactuals. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics 12: 105-120. Download
2012. H. Zeijlstra. There is only one way to agree. The Linguistic Review 29: 491 – 53. Download
2012. P.J.E. Dekker & H. Zeijlstra. 2012. Concord and doubling phenomena: an introduction. Journal of Semantics 29: 295-303. Download
2012. H. Zeijlstra. Wat het Nederlands in nog meer kan leren over de Jespersencyclus. Nederlandse Taalkunde 17: 414-420. Download
2012. Th. Biberauer & H. Zeijlstra. Negative Concord in Afrikaans: filling the typological gap. Journal of Semantics 28: 345-371. Download
2011. H. Zeijlstra. On the Lexical Status of Negative Indefinites in Dutch and German. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 14: 111-138. Download
2010. H. Zeijlstra. Emphatic Multiple Negative Expressions in Dutch. The Linguistic Review 27: 37-73. Download
2010. D. Penka & H. Zeijlstra. Negation and Polarity: an introduction. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 28: 771-786. Download
2009. H. Zeijlstra. How parameters arise. Linguistics in Amsterdam 2: 1-22. Download
2007. H. Zeijlstra. Zero licensers. Snippets 16: 21-22. Download
2007. H. Zeijlstra. Negation in Natural language: on the Form and Meaning of Negative Elements. Language and Linguistics Compass 1: 498-518. Download
2006. H. Zeijlstra. The Ban on True Negative Imperatives. Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 6: 405-425.
2005. H. Zeijlstra. Dislocation triggers uninterpretability. Linguistic Analysis 35: 331-372. Download
2002. H. Zeijlstra. ‘What the Dutch Jespersen Cycle may reveal about Negative Concord’. Linguistics in Potsdam 19: 183-206.
Refereed book chapters
Submitted. A. Bluemel & H. Zeijlstra. Root categorizers don’t lexicalize.
In press. H. Zeijlstra. Modals, negation, concord, and polarity. In A. Arregui, V. Hacquard, M. Ippolito. Cambridge Handbook of Natural Language Modality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Download
2026. S. Sundaresan & H. Zeijlstra. The syntactic limits of probe-goal (a)symmetries. In K. Grohmann & E. Leivada (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of the minimalist program. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 539 - 572. Download
2025. H. Zeijlstra. A non-trivial problem. In E. Csipak, M. Liu & J. David (eds.), A Festschrift in Honour of Regine Eckardt. Download
2025. H. Zeijlstra. Abwärts implizierend. In: D. Gutzmann, K. Turgay & Th. Zimmermann (eds.) Semantik und Pragmatik. Wörterbücher für Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) 10. Berlin: de Gruyter Brill. Download
2025. H. Zeijlstra. Aufwärts implizierend. In: D. Gutzmann, K. Turgay & Th. Zimmermann (eds.) Semantik und Pragmatik. Wörterbücher für Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) 10. Berlin: de Gruyter Brill. Download
2025. H. Zeijlstra. Aristotelisches Quadrat. In: D. Gutzmann, K. Turgay & Th. Zimmermann (eds.) Semantik und Pragmatik. Wörterbücher für Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) 10. Berlin: de Gruyter Brill. Download
2025. H. Zeijlstra. Negation. In: D. Gutzmann, K. Turgay & Th. Zimmermann (eds.) Semantik und Pragmatik. Wörterbücher für Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) 10. Berlin: de Gruyter Brill. Download
2024. O. Koeneman & H. Zeijlstra. Do-support and the syntax of finiteness. In M. lekakou, K. Szendroi & R, Truswell (eds.), Generation Flex: Flexible syntax 25 years on. Download
2023. H. Zeijlstra. Word classes and their underlying features in minimalist syntax. In E. van Lier (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Word Classes. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Download
2023. O. Koeneman, S. Tvica & H. Zeijlstra. ‘Rich agreement and verbal syntax.’ In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology. London: Wiley. 2367-2401. Download
2023. O. Koeneman & H. Zeijlstra. A New Perspective on Pro Drop in Romanian. In M. Burada, O. Tatu & R. Sinu (eds.), Language and Communication in the Digital Age. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 5-34. Download
2023. H. Zeijlstra. Postsyntactic movement on the LF-side of Grammar: Quantifier Raising outside narrow syntax. In N. Pomoni, E. Remberger & J. Zwink (eds.), From Formal Linguistic Theory to the Art of Historical Editions. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage. 187-199. Download
2022. O. Koeneman & H. Zeijlstra. ‘The lack of full pro drop as a consequence of featural overspecification.’ In: J. Bentz & Y. Chen (eds.) University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 28: Article 10. Download
2020. H. Zeijlstra. ‘Rethinking remerge: merge, movement and music.’ In. A. Barany, Th. Biberauer, J. Douglas & S. Vikner (eds.), Syntactic architecture and its consequences. Vol. I: Syntax inside the grammar. Berlin: Language Science Press. 571-598. Download
2020. H. Zeijlstra. ‘Labeling, selection, and feature checking.’ In P. Smith, J. Mursell & K. Hartmann (eds.), Agree to Agree: Agreement in the Minimalist Programme. Berlin: Language Science Press. 137-174 Download
2020. H. Zeijlstra. ‘Negative Quantifiers.’ In Viviane Déprez & M. Teresa Espinal (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Negation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 426-440.
2020. O. Koeneman & H. Zeijlstra. ‘Form and Meaning of (Indefinite) Pronouns.’ In R. Lieber (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Morphology. Oxford University Press. Download
2019. O. Koeneman & H. Zeijlstra. ‘Morphology and pro drop.’ In R. Lieber (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Morphology. Oxford University Press. Download
2017. H. Zeijlstra. ‘Contentives: a lexical supercategory above nouns and verbs.’ In C. Mayr & E. Williams (eds), Festschrift für Martin Prinzhorn. Vienna: WLG. 313-322. Download
2017. S. Iatridou & H. Zeijlstra. ‘Negated perfects and temporal in-adverbials’. In C. Halpert, H. Kotek & C. van Urk (eds.), A Pesky Set: Papers for David Pesetsky. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL. 65-74. Download
2017. A. Giannakidou & H. Zeijlstra. ‘The Landscape of Negative Dependencies: Negative Concord, N-Words, Split Scope.’ In M. Everaert & H. van Riemsdijk (eds.). The Blackwell Companion to Syntax, 2nd Edition. London: Blackwell. Download
2015. H. Zeijlstra. ‘The morpho-syntactic realization of sentential negation.’ In A. Alexiadou & T. Kiss (eds), The International Syntax Handbook. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 275-310. Download
2014. H. Zeijlstra. ‘On the uninterpretability of interpretable features.’ In: P. Kosta e.a. (eds), Minimalism and beyond. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 109-129. Download
2014. J. Lin, F. Weerman & H. Zeijlstra. ‘Mandarin SHENME as a superweak NPI.’ In: J. Hoeksema & D. Gilbers (eds.), Black book: a festschrift in honor of Frans Zwarts. Groningen: University of Groningen. 229-251.
2013. H. Zeijlstra. ‘Hard and soft conditions on the Faculty of Language: constituting parametric variation.’ In: H. Broekhuis & R. Vogel (eds), Linguistic Derivations and Filtering: Minimalism and Optimality Theory. London, Equinox. 298-314. Download
2013. H. Zeijlstra. ‘Negation and polarity.’ In: M. Den Dikken (ed),The Cambridge handbook of generative syntax. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 793-826. Download
2012. Th. Biberauer & H. Zeijlstra. 'Negative changes: three factors and the diachrony of Afrikaans negation'. In: Ch. Galves et al. (eds), Diachronic syntax. Parameter Theory and dynmics of change. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 238-264. Download
2012. R. Verburg & H. Zeijlstra. 'Comparative Concord.' In R. Genis et al. (eds.), Between West and East: Festschrift for Wim Honselaar, on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Amsterdam: Pegasus.
2009. H. Zeijlstra. ‘Functional structure, formal features and parametric variation: consequences of conflicting interface conditions.’ In: K. Grohmann (ed). InterPhases. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 82-113. Download
2008. H. Zeijlstra. ‘On the syntactic flexibility of formal features.’ In: Th. Biberauer (ed), The Limits of Syntactic Variation. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 143-174. Download
2007. H. Zeijlstra. ‘Doubling: the semantic driving force behind functional categories.’ In B. ten Cate & H. Zeevat (eds.). Logic, Language and Computation. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 4363. Hamburg: Springer Verlag. 260-280.
Proceedings papers
In press. Z. Mirrazi & H. Zeijlstra. Neg-raising without lexical excluded middle inferences: Resolving Horn Clauses and other problems. To appear in the Proceedings of SICOGG 23. Download H
2024. Y. Greenberg & H. Zeijlstra. ‘What is special about special?’ In F. Carcassi et al. (eds), Proceedings of the the 24th Amsterdam Colloquium. 138-144. Download
2023. Z. Mirrazi & H. Zeijlstra. ‘Missing words and missing worlds.’ In M. Onoeva, A. Staňková & R. Šimík (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn & Bedeutung 27. 453-452. Download
2021. S. Alexeyenko & H. Zeijlstra. ‘(Dis)obeying the the Head-Final Filter.’ In Proceedings of WCCFL 37. 50-58. Download H
2020. H. Karawani, C. Kauf & H. Zeijlstra. ‘The asymmetry of fake tense.’ In J. Schlöder, D. McHugh & F Roelofsen (eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium 2019. Amsterdam: ILLC. 211-217. Download
2018. C. Kauf & H. Zeijlstra. 'Towards a New Explanation of Sequence of Tense.’ In S. Maspong, B. Stefánsdóttir, K. Blake & F. Davis (eds.), Proceedings of the 28th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge May 18-20, 2018. 59-77. Download
2017. C. Kauf & H. Zeijlstra. ‘Explaining the Ambiguity of Past-Under-Past Embeddings.’ In A. Cremers, F. van Gessel & F. Roelofsen (eds), Proceeding of the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium. Amsterdam: ILLC. 315-324. Download
2016. J. Lin, F. Weerman & H. Zeijlstra. 'Acquisition as a window on the nature of NPIs.' In N. Bade, P. Berezovskaya & A. Schöller (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn & Bedeutung 20. Semanticsarchive.net. 462-479. Download
2015. H. Zeijlstra. ‘NEG-raising does not involve syntactic reconstruction.’ In: Th Brochhagen, F. Roelofsen & N. Theiler (eds.), Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium 2015. Amsterdam: ILLC. 458-467. Download
2013. H. Zeijlstra. ‘Universal Quantifier PPIs.’ In: M. Aloni, M. Franke & F. Roelofsen (eds), Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium 2009, 273-280. Amsterdam, ILLC. Download
2012. H. Zeijlstra. ‘Not a light negation.’ In: A. Chereches (ed.), Proceedings of the 22nd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference. Elanguage 545-564. Download
2011. Th. Biberauer and H. Zeijlstra. ‘Negation in Afrikaans: in search for the missing language.’ In S. Lima, K. Mullin & Br. Smith (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 39. Amherst, MA: GLSA.
2011. A. Aguilar Guevara, M. Aloni, A. Port, R. Simik, M. de Vos and H Zeijlstra. ‘Semantics and pragmatics of indefinites: methodology for a synchronic and diachronic corpus study.’ In Proceedings of the workshop Beyond Semantics -- Corpus-based investigations of pragmatic and discourse phenomena. Bochum: Bochumer Linguistische Arbeiten. Download
2010. S. Iatridou & H. Zeijlstra. 'On the scopal interaction of negation and deontic modals'. In: M. Aloni et al. (eds). Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium 2009. Berlin, Springer Verlag. 315-324. Download
2010. H. Zeijlstra. ‘On French Negation.’ In: I. Kwon. H. `Pritchett and J. Spence (eds), Proceedings of the 35th annual meeting of the Berkely Linguistics Society. Berkely, CA: BLS. 447-458. Download
2010. O. Koeneman & H. Zeijlstra. 'Weak isn’t strong enough: resurrecting the Rich Agreement Hypothesis.' In Proceedings of the 12th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG12).
2008. H. Zeijlstra. ‘Modal Concord.’ In: M. Gibson & T. Friedman (eds), Proceedings of SALT XVII. Ithaca: CLS. Download
2006. H. Zeijlstra. ‘How semantic dictates the syntactic vocabulary.’ In C. Ebert & C. Endriss (eds.). Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 10. ZAS, Berlin. 453-468.
2006. H. Zeijlstra. ‘Don’t negate imperatives! Imperatives and the semantic of negative markers.’ In C. Ebert & C. Endriss (eds.). Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 10.ZAS, Berlin. 437-452.
2006. H. Zeijlstra. Emphatic Multiple Negative Expressions in Dutch: A by-product of the loss of Negative Concord.In S. Barbiers, O. Koeneman & M. Lekakou (eds.). Papers presented at the Workshop on Syntactic Doubling, Amsterdam, March 2006.
2005.H. Zeijlstra. 'What the Dutch Jespersen Cycle may reveal about Negative Concord.' In M. Andronis, E. Debenport, A. Pycha & K. Yoshimura (eds.), Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society 38 (Vol. II). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 143-158.
2004. H. Zeijlstra. ‘Syntactic vs. Semantic Negation.’In C. Meier & M. Weisgerber (eds.), Proceedings of the Conference "SUB8 - Sinn und Bedeutung." Konstanz: Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft Universität Konstanz. 333-348.
2004. H. Zeijlstra.‘Two Ways of Expressing Negation.’ In S. Blaho, L. Vicente & M. de Vos (eds.), Proceedings of ConSOLE XII. 245-259.
2002. H. Zeijlstra. ‘A Three-Track Structure of Temporal and Aspectual Representation.’ In Proceedings of the conference 'Perspectives on Aspect'. UiL OTS Working Papers in Linguistics.
Miscellaneous
2021. S Iatridou & H. Zeijlstra. On the formal identity between interrogative and conditional complementizers: synchrony or diachrony? Ms. MIT/Goettingen. Download
2013. S. Miyagawa, N. Nishioka & H. Zeijlstra. Negative dependencies in Japanese. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 67: 231–244.
2010. H. Zeijlstra. Review of 'Daniel Harbour, David Adger & Susana Bejar (eds.), Phi theory: Phi-features across modules and interfaces'. Journal of Linguistics 46: 739-748. Download
2010. H. Zeijlstra. Boekbeoordeling van 'J.M. van der Horst, Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Syntaxis.' Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 126: 94-95. Download
2007. H. Zeijlstra. ‘Emphatic Multiple Negative Expressions in Dutch.’ In E. Aboh & M. Van Staden (eds.). ACLC Working Papers in Linguistics 2. 77-103.
2008. H. Zeijlstra. Negative Concord is syntactic agreement. Ms University of Amsterdam. Lingbuzz/000645. Download
2005. D. Penka & H. Zeijlstra. Negative Indefinites in Dutch and German. Ms. University of Tübingen. Lingbuzz/000192. Download
2003. H. Zeijlstra. Negation revisited. A review of Paul Rowlett's ‘Negation in French.’ Glot 7-7/8:1-4.
2000. J. van Cranenbroeck, A. Neuckemans, S. van der Kleij, M. van Koppen, G. de Vogelaer & H. Zeijlstra, A bibliography of Dutch dialect syntax. Published at: http://www.meertens.nl/projecten/ sand/sand.html.
