Maaike Beliën studied general linguistics and English language and literature at the University of Amsterdam. She obtained her doctorate from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her dissertation presents a corpus-based analysis of Dutch prepositions and postpositions, from a construction-grammar perspective.
She has been a researcher at the Dutch Language Institute (INT) since 2020, where she focuses primarily on grammar. She coordinates the revision of the online General Dutch Grammar (e-ANS), the most comprehensive description of Dutch grammar intended for a wide audience.
She previously worked as a lecturer-researcher for the English Language and Culture programme at the University of Amsterdam, as a lecturer of English writing skills for doctoral students at the Delft University of Technology, and as a researcher and lecturer of Dutch linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for linguistics.
Publications
- Beliën, Maaike (2022). Woordvorming is overal! Een vernieuwd hoofdstuk in de e-ANS. Via: Neerlandistiek.nl
- Beliën, Maaike (2021). 9 De adpositie (het voorzetsel, achterzetsel, omzetsel, en meer). In: Algemene Nederlandse Spraakkunst. Leiden: Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal.
- Beliën, Maaike (2021). 17 De adpositieconstituent. In: Algemene Nederlandse Spraakkunst. Leiden: Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal.
- Beliën, Maaike (2017). Auxiliary choice with particle verbs of motion in Dutch. In: Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 49(2): 212-231.
- Beliën, Maaike (2016). Dutch impersonal passives: Beyond volition and atelicity. In: Jenny Audring & Sander Lestrade (red.) Linguistics in the Netherlands 2016, 1–13. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
- Beliën, Maaike (2016). A constructional perspective on conceptual constituency: Dutch postpositions or particles? In: Jiyoung Joon & Stefan Th. Gries (red.), Corpus-based approaches to Construction Grammar, 11-37. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
- Beliën, Maaike (2016). Exploring semantic differences in syntactic variation: Dutch komen (‘come’) with a past participle or an infinitive. In: Anne Bannink & Wim Honselaar (red.), From variation to iconicity: Festschrift for Olga Fischer, 17-32. Amsterdam: Pegasus.
- Beliën, Maaike (2014). Auxiliary choice with Dutch verbs of directed motion. In: Anita Auer & Björn Köhnlein (red.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 2014, 1-12. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
- Beliën, Maaike (2012). Dutch manner of motion verbs: Disentangling auxiliary choice, telicity and syntactic function. In: Cognitive Linguistics 23(1): 1-26.
- Beliën, Maaike (2008). Constructions, constraints, and construal: Adpositions in Dutch. Proefschrift, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Utrecht: LOT.