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D-Index
37
Citations
9215
World Ranking
6126
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Marcel den Dikken is affiliated with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Hungary and has a research portfolio spanning linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, gender studies, and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their work predominantly engages with syntax, semantics, and linguistic variation, alongside interdisciplinary approaches involving natural language processing techniques and discourse analysis.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Computer Science

The subfields covered in their research are:

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Philosophy
  • Gender Studies
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Main research topics are centered on:

  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
  • Gender Studies in Language
  • Lexicography and Language Studies
  • Linguistics and language evolution
  • Historical Linguistics and Language Studies

Marcel den Dikken's recent publications include:

  • High and Low Applicatives of Unaccusatives: Dependent Case and the Phase (2021) in Linguistic Inquiry
  • Ordinals, reflexives and unaccusatives (2022) in Journal of Uralic Linguistics
  • The morphosyntax of the Hungarian sociative and dissociative suffixes (2023) in Journal of Uralic Linguistics
  • Associative plurals and their associates (2023) in Journal of Uralic Linguistics
  • A 'big DP' analysis of Russian copular constructions with èto (2024) in Glossa a journal of general linguistics, coauthored with Irina Burukina

Frequent coauthors contributing to their research are:

  • Éva Dékány
  • Irina Burukina
  • Lena Borise
  • James E. Griffiths

Publication venues where Marcel den Dikken's work appeared multiple times include:

  • Journal of Uralic Linguistics
  • The Even Yearbook
  • Linguistic Inquiry
  • Glossa a journal of general linguistics
  • Journal of Iranian linguistics.

Marcel den Dikken received recognition from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008, indicating professional acknowledgment within the academic community.

Best Publications

  • Particles: On the Syntax of Verb-Particle, Triadic, and Causative Constructions

    Marcel den Dikken

  • Relators and Linkers: The Syntax of Predication, Predicate Inversion, and Copulas

    Marcel den Dikken

  • Japanese/Korean linguistics

    Southern California Japanese

  • Phase Extension Contours of a theory of the role of head movement in phrasal extraction

    Marcel den Dikken

  • On the functional structure of locative and directional PPs

    Marcel den Dikken

  • Pseudoclefts and ellipsis

    Marcel den Dikken;André Meinunger;Chris Wilder

  • Specificational Copular Sentences and Pseudoclefts

    Marcel Den Dikken

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax

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  • Predication in Nominal Phrases

    Hans Bennis;Norbert Corver;Marcel Den Dikken

  • Complex Noun Phrases and Linkers

    Marcel den Dikken;Pornsiri Singhapreecha

  • “Pluringulars”, pronouns and quirky agreement

    Marcel Den Dikken

  • There, happens, to, be, have

    Robert Belvin;Marcel den Dikken

  • From hell to polarity: aggressively non-D-linked wh-phrases as polarity items

    Marcel den Dikken;Anastasia Giannakidou;Anastasia Giannakidou

  • Binding, expletives, and levels

    Marcel den Dikken

  • Comparative Correlatives Comparatively

    Marcel den Dikken

  • On the Structural Representation of Possession and Agreement: the Case of (Anti-)agreement in Hungarian Possessed Nominal Phrases

    Marcel den Dikken

  • The syntax of possession and the verb ‘have’☆

    Marcel den Dikken

  • Dependency and Directionality

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  • Clitic phenomena in European languages

    Frits Beukema;Marcel den Dikken

  • Ellipsis and EPP repair

    Jeroen van Craenenbroeck;Marcel den Dikken

  • Data and grammar: Means and individuals

    Marcel Den Dikken;Judy B Bernstein;Christina Tortora;Raffaella Zanuttini

  • Either -Float and the Syntax of Co- or -dination

    Marcel Den Dikken

  • Case dependencies: the case of predicate inversion

    Marcel Den Dikken;Alma Næss

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