Maaike Beliën studied general linguistics and English language and literature at the University of Amsterdam. She obtained her doctorate from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam through corpus research into Dutch prepositions and postpositions, from a construction grammar perspective.
She has been a researcher at the Dutch Language Institute (INT) since 2020, and 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 teacher-researcher for the English Language and Culture programme at the University of Amsterdam, as a teacher of English writing skills for doctoral students at the Delft University of Technology, and as a researcher and teacher 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 Hafniensia49(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.