My research interests are semantics, syntax-semantics interface relations, morphosyntax and field linguistics. My dissertation focuses on aspectual decomposition and event structure in Secwepemctsín (Shuswap) and Nłeʔkepmxcin (Thompson River Salish), Interior Salish languages.

My dissertation is funded through a Kinkade Grant from the Jacobs Research Fund, and the Phillips Fund for Native American Research from the American Philosophical Society, which were recently awarded.

Other research interests include morphosyntax and morphosemantics in the Germanic language family, specifically agreement (or a lack thereof), and morphological doubling [QP 1].  I have also worked on experimental syntax in Germanic languages. My MA, under supervision of Keir Moulton and Chung-hye Han, was on the syntax and pragmatics of Embedded Verb Second in German [pdf]. Finally, I work with speakers of Gitksan (Tsimshianic language spoken in Northern B.C.), on the syntax and semantics of the language.

Refereed Publications

2021 — Han, Chung-hye, Keir Moulton, Trevor Block, Holly Gendron &  Sander Nederveen. Pronouns are as sensitive to structural constraints as reflexives in early processing: evidence from visual world paradigm eye-tracking.  Front. Psychol. 12:611466. https://doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.611466

2020 — Moulton, Keir,  Chung-hye Han, Trevor Block, Holly Gendron &  Sander Nederveen. Singular they in context. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics.  5(1): 122. 1-13.  http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1012

Proceeding Papers

to appear — Nederveen, Sander. Maximal and non-minimal change of state in Salish event structure. To appear in Proceedings of Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas. [pre-publication pdf]

2022 — Nederveen, Sander. Double Perfects in Swiss German. In A. Hernandez and Chris Plyley (Eds.). Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. [pdf]

2021 — Davis, Henry & Sander Nederveen. Hli, Focus, and Relativization in Gitksan. In D. K. E. Reisinger, Hannah Green, Laura Griffin, Marianne Huijsmans, Gloria Mellesmoen, and Bailey Trotter (eds.). Papers for the International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages 56. Vancouver, BC: UBCWPL. [pdf]

2021 — Navarro, Michel & Sander Nederveen. Comparative Notes on the Determiner re in Secwepemctsín. In D. K. E. Reisinger, Hannah Green, Laura Griffin, Marianne Huijsmans, Gloria Mellesmoen, and Bailey Trotter (eds.). Papers for the International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages 56. Vancouver, BC: UBCWPL. [pdf]

2020 — Nederveen, Sander. Uniformity Constraints in German Reportive Contexts. Working Papers of the Linguistics Circle of the University of Victoria. [pdf]

Conference Presentations

April 2023 — Maximal and non-minimal change in Salish event structure. International Workshop on Maximalization Strategies in the Event Domain. University of Debrecen, Hungary. Talk. [abstract] [handout]

April 2023 — Ā-driven anti-agreement in Dutch inflectional morphology. GLOW 46. University of Vienna, Austria. Poster. [abstract]

October 2022 — Scalar structure of telicity in Secwepemctsín. Semantics for Under-Represented Languages in the Americas. University of Ottawa. Talk.

August 2022 — Control and Limited Control in Secwepemctsín. 57th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages. Nicola Valley Institute of Technology, Merritt, B.C. Talk.

August 2021 — Hli, Focus, and Relativization in Gitksan. 56th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages (Virtual). Talk. (with Henry Davis)

August 2021 — Comparative notes on the determiner re in Secwepemctsín. 56th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages (Virtual). Talk. (with Michel Assis Navarro)

June 2021 — Double Perfects in Swiss German. Canadian Linguistic Association Conference (Virtual). Talk.

June 2020 — Discourse Novelty, Givenness and EV2 in German. Canadian Linguistic Association Conference (Virtual). Talk.

April 2020 —  Tense Doesn’t Like to Agree: The Case of Swiss German. Northwest Linguistics Conference, Univ. of Washington (Virtual). Talk. (with Lucas Chambers)

July 2019 — Mood and tense in German reportive contexts. Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute. Univ. of California at Davis. Poster.

May 2019 — Uniformity and interpretation constraints for mood and tense in German. Canadian Linguistic Association Conference, Univ. of British Columbia. Poster.

April 2019 — Uniformity and interpretation constraints for mood and tense in German.  Northwest Linguistics Conference, Univ. of Victoria. Talk.