Prof. dr. A.P. (Arjen) Versloot
Frisian Linguistics
Faculty of Humanities
German and Scandinavian Languages & Cultures
Visiting address
- Spuistraat 134
- Room number: 6.07
Postal address
- Postbus 1641
1000 BP Amsterdam
Contact details
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Publications
- refereed (49)
- academic (10)
- professional (7)
- popular scientific (5)
- conference contributions (1)
- recognitions (1)
- supervised theses (4)
- doctoral thesis (1)
2023
- Radke, H., & Versloot, A. (2023). Referential Multimodality, Multilingualism and Gender: How German Namibians use Afrikaans and English Brocatives in their CMC. In M. Włodarczyk, J. Tyrkkö , & E. Adamczyk (Eds.), Multilingualism from Manuscript to 3D: Intersections of Modalities from Medieval to Modern Times (pp. 170-202). (Routledge Studies in Multimodality). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003166634 [details]
2022
Stefan, N., & Versloot, A. (2022). Conditions for the Borrowing of Irregular Plurals in an Intense Language Contact Situation. Us Wurk, 71(3-4), 109-136. https://doi.org/10.21827/uw.71.109-136 [details]
2021
- Versloot, A. P. (2021). The volatile linguistic shape of 'Town Frisian'/'Town Hollandic'. In H. Van de Velde, N. H. Hilton, & R. Knooihuizen (Eds.), Language Variation – European Perspectives VIII: Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 10), Leeuwarden, June 2019 (pp. 11-34). (Studies in Language Variation; Vol. 25). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.25.01ver [details]
- Versloot, A. P. (2021). Traces of a North Sea Germanic idiom in the 5th-7th centuries AD. In J. Hines, & N. IJssennagger-van der Pluijm (Eds.), The Frisians (pp. 339-373). (Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology; Vol. 10). The Boydell Press. [details]
2020
- Versloot, A. (2020). Streektaaldood in de Lage Landen. Taal en Tongval, 72(1), 7-16. https://doi.org/10.5117/TET2020.1.VERS [details]
2019
- Adamczyk, E., & Versloot, A. P. (2019). Phonological constraints on morphology: Evidence from Old English nominal inflection. Folia Linguistica, 40(1), 153-176. https://doi.org/10.1515/flih-2019-0008 [details]
- Bloem, J., Versloot, A., & Weerman, F. (2019). Modeling a Historical Variety of a Low-Resource Language: Language Contact Effects in the Verbal Cluster of Early-Modern Frisian. In N. Tahmasebi, L. Borin, A. Jatowt, & Y. Xu (Eds.), The 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change: ACL 2019 : proceedings of the workshop : August 2, 2019, Florence, Italy (pp. 265-271). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-4733 [details]
- Bosma, E., Blom, E., Hoekstra, E., & Versloot, A. (2019). A longitudinal study on the gradual cognate facilitation effect in bilingual children’s Frisian receptive vocabulary. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 22(4), 371-385. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2016.1254152 [details]
- Hoekstra, E., & Versloot, A. P. (2019). Factors promoting the retention of irregularity: On the interplay of salience, absolute frequency and proportional frequency in West Frisian plural morphology. Morphology, 29(1), 31-50. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-018-9334-2 [details]
- Merkuur, A., Don, J., Hoekstra, E., & Versloot, A. P. (2019). Competition in Frisian Past Participles. In F. Rainer, F. Gardani, W. U. Dressler, & H. C. Luschützky (Eds.), Competition in Inflection and Word-formation (pp. 195-222). (Studies in Morphology; Vol. 5). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02550-2_8 [details]
- Versloot, A. P. (2019). Reduction of unstressed vowels in Proto-Frisian and the Germanic 'Auslautgesetze'. NOWELE: North-Western European Language Evolution, 72(1), 78-98. https://doi.org/10.1075/nowele.00021.ver [details]
- Versloot, A. P., & Hoekstra, E. (2019). Blocking as a Function of the Nature of Linguistic Representations: Where Psycholinguistics and Morphology Meet. In F. Rainer, F. Gardani, W. U. Dressler, & H. C. Luschützky (Eds.), Competition in Inflection and Word-Formation (pp. 145-166). (Studies in Morphology; Vol. 5). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02550-2_6 [details]
2018
- Versloot, A. P. (2018). Frysk út Noard-Holland út de 17e iuw? (Frisian from Holland from the 17th century; with an extensive English summary in §6). Us Wurk, 67(1-2), 1-37. [1420]. [details]
- Versloot, A. P. (2018). Sprachverlust und Halbsprecher einer sterbenden Sprache: Die Infinitivendungen in der friesischen Sprache des Harlingerlandes. NOWELE: North-Western European Language Evolution, 71(1), 99-118. https://doi.org/10.1075/nowele.00005.ver [details]
- Versloot, A. P., & Adamczyk, E. (2018). Plural Inflection in North Sea Germanic Languages: A Multivariate Analysis of Morphological Variation. In A. Dammel, M. Eitelman, & M. Schmuck (Eds.), Reorganising Grammatical Variation: Diachronic Studies in the Retention, Redistribution and Refunctionalisation of Linguistic Variants (pp. 17-55). (Studies in language companion series (SLCS); Vol. 203). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.203.02ver [details]
2017
- Bloem, J., Versloot, A., & Weerman, F. (2017). Verbal cluster order and processing complexity. Language Sciences, 60, 94-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2016.10.009 [details]
- Bosma, E., Blom, E., & Versloot, A. (2017). Language balance and cognitive advantages in Frisian-Dutch bilingual children. In F. Lauchlan, & M. C. Parafita Couto (Eds.), Bilingualism and minority languages in Europe: current trends and developments (pp. 141-158). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishers. [details]
- Bosma, E., Heeringa, W., Hoekstra, E., Versloot, A., & Blom, E. (2017). Verbal working memory is related to the acquisition of cross-linguistic phonological regularities. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, [1487]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01487 [details]
- Bosma, E., Hoekstra, E., Versloot, A., & Blom, E. (2017). The Minimal and Short-Lived Effects of Minority Language Exposure on the Executive Functions of Frisian-Dutch Bilingual Children. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, [1453]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01453 [details]
- Versloot, A. (2017). De fariaasje tusken -ath en -at yn de Aldfryske tiidwurdútgong. Us Wurk, 66, 97-112. https://ugp.rug.nl/uswurk/article/view/31015 [details]
- Versloot, A. (2017). On the nature of mixed languages: The case of Bildts. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 248, 113-136. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2017-0033 [details]
- Versloot, A. P. (2017). Mith frethe to wasane ‘To be in Peace’: Remnants of the Instrumental and Locative Case in Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Old Frisian. Filologia germanica = Germanic philology, 9, 201-230. [details]
- Versloot, A. P. (2017). Proto-Germanic ai in North and West Germanic. Folia Linguistica Historica, 51(s38), 281–324. https://doi.org/10.1515/flih-2017-0010 [details]
- Versloot, A. P. (2017). The Riustring Old Frisian -ar Plurals: Borrowed or Inherited? Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, 77(1-2), 442-456. https://doi.org/10.1163/18756719-12340084 [details]
- Versloot, A., & Adamczyk, E. (2017). Geography and Dialects of Old Saxon: River basin communication networks and the distributional patterns of North Sea Germanic features in Old Saxon. In J. Hines, & N. IJssennagger (Eds.), Frisians and their North Sea Neighbours: from the Fifth Century to the Viking Age (pp. 125-148). Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. [details]
2016
- Hoekstra, E., & Versloot, A. (2016). Three-verb clusters in Interference Frisian: a stochastic model over sequential syntactic input. Language and Speech, 59(1), 43-58. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830915577009 [details]
- Versloot, A. (2016). Die Endungen –os/-as und -a des Nominativ/Accusativ Plurals der a-Stämme im Altsächsischen. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, 76(4), 464 – 477. https://doi.org/10.1163/18756719-12340052 [details]
- Versloot, A. (2016). Zur Interpretation der neuentdeckten altfriesischen Psalmglossen. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, 76(3), 371-378. https://doi.org/10.1163/18756719-12340044 [details]
- Versloot, A. P. (2016). Unstressed vowels in Runic Frisian: The history of Frisian in the light of the Germanic Auslautgesetze. Us Wurk, 65(1-2), 1-39. https://ugp.rug.nl/uswurk/article/view/28556 [details]
- Versloot, A. P., & Hoekstra, E. (2016). Attraction between words as a function of frequency and representational distance: words in the bilingual brain. Linguistics, 54(6), 1223-1240. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2016-0028 [details]
2015
- Bloem, J., Versloot, A., & Weerman, F. (2015). An agent-based model of a historical word order change. In R. Berwick, A. Korhonen, A. Lenci, T. Poibeau, & A. Villavicencio (Eds.), EMNLP 2015 : Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning (CogACLL-2015) : 18 September 2015, Lisbon, Portugal (pp. 22-27). Association for Computational Linguistics. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-2404 [details]
- Damsma, L., & Versloot, A. (2015). Vowel Epenthesis in Early Germanic Runic Inscriptions. Futhark, 6, 21-64. [details]
- Hanssen, E., Versloot, A., Hoekstra, E., Banga, A., Neijt, A., & Schreuder, R. (2015). Morphological variation in the speech of Frisian-Dutch bilinguals: (Dis)similarity of linking suffixes and plural endings. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 5(3), 356-378. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.5.3.03han [details]
- Stefan, N., Klinkenberg, E., & Versloot, A. (2015). Frisian sociological language survey goes linguistic: Introduction to a new research component. In H. Brand, E. Hoekstra, J. Spoelstra, & H. Van de Velde (Eds.), Philologia Frisica Anno 2014: Lêzingen fan it Tweintichste Frysk filologekongres fan de Fryske Akademy op 10, 11 en 12 desimber 2014 (pp. 240-257). (Fryske Akademy; No. 1091). Fryske Akademy. https://www.fryske-akademy.nl/philfrisica/ [details]
- Versloot, A. P. (2015). Die ‘friesischen’ Wörter in der Lex Frisionum. Us Wurk, 64(1-2), 1-10. https://ugp.rug.nl/uswurk/article/view/25213 [details]
- Versloot, A., & Strik, O. (2015). Frequency and analogy in Early Modern Frisian verb inflection. In O. Strik (Ed.), Modelling analogical change: A history of Swedish and Frisian verb inflection (pp. 165-177). (Groningen dissertations in linguistics; No. 137). University of Groningen. http://hdl.handle.net/11370/83ce77d4-c426-42e6-b339-779b437deed0 [details]
2014
- Bloem, J., Versloot, A., & Weerman, F. (2014). Applying automatically parsed corpora to the study of language variation. In J. Tsujii, & J. Hajic (Eds.), COLING 2014: the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: proceedings of COLING 2014 : technical papers: August 23-29, 2014, Dublin, Ireland (pp. 1974-1984). Association for Computational Linguistics. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C14-1186 [details]
- Versloot, A. (2014). Methodological Reflections on the Emergence of Old Frisian. NOWELE: North-Western European Language Evolution, 67(1), 23-49. https://doi.org/10.1075/nowele.67.1.02ver [details]
- Versloot, A. P. (2014). Die -ar-Plurale im Altwestfriesischen: mit einem Exkurs über die sächlichen Plurale im Westfriesischen. Us Wurk, 63(3-4), 93-114. https://ugp.rug.nl/uswurk/article/view/25275 [details]
- Versloot, A. P. (2014). The Runic Frisian vowel system: the earliest history of Frisian and Proto-Insular North Frisian. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, 72, 35-62. [details]
- Versloot, A. P., & Adamczyk, E. (2014). Corpus Size and Composition: Evidence from the Inflectional Morphology of Nouns in Old English and Old Frisian. In R. H. Bremmer, S. Laker, & O. Vries (Eds.), Directions for Old Frisian philology (pp. 539-569). (Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik; No. 73). Amsterdam: Rodopi. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401211918_021 [details]
2013
- Bloemhoff, H., de Haan, G. J., & Versloot, A. P. (2013). Language varieties in the province of Fryslân. In F. Hinkens, & J. Taeldeman (Eds.), Language and space: an international handbook of linguistic variation. - Vol. 3: Dutch (pp. 721-738). (Handbook of linguistics and communication science; No. 30.3). De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110261332.721 [details]
2012
- Hoekstra, E., Slofstra, B., & Versloot, A. (2012). Changes in the use of the Frisian quantifiers ea/oait "ever" between 1250 and 1800. Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science. Series 4, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 320, 171-189. [details]
- Nijdam, H., Versloot, A., & Meijering, H. (2012). Kodeks Siccama: spoaren fan in ferdwûn Aldwestfrysk rjochtshânskrift. Us Wurk, 61(1-2), 1-56. https://ugp.rug.nl/uswurk/article/view/26730 [details]
- Versloot, A. P. (2012). Westgermaans *ē1 in het Noord-Hollands: een Ingweoonse mythe? It Beaken : meidielingen fan de Fryske Akademy, 74(1/2), 100-121. [details]
- Versloot, A., Hengst, H., & Huisman, M. (2012). Werkwoordvolgordes in het Amsterdams van de 17e eeuw. Taal en Tongval, 64(1), 41-71. https://doi.org/10.5117/TET2012.1.VERS [details]
2011
- Versloot, A. (2011). Frisian place-names and place-names in Friesland. Onoma, 46, 127-150. https://doi.org/10.2143/ONO.46.0.2975532 [details]
2010
- Slofstra, B., & Versloot, A. (2010). The Frisian Language Database as a Tool for Semantic Research. In A. Dykstra, & T. Schoonheim (Eds.), Proceedings of the XIV Euralex International Congress (Leeuwarden, 6-10 July 2010) (pp. 1399-1404). Fryske Akademy / Afûk. http://www.euralex.org/elx_proceedings/Euralex2010/132_Euralex_2010_9_SLOFSTRA%20VERSLOOT_The%20Frisian%20Language%20Database%20as%20a%20tool%20for%20semantic%20research.pdf [details]
2009
- Slofstra, B., Hoekstra, E., & Versloot, A. (2009). Een voorbeeld van gecamoufleerde taalbeïnvloeding: samenstellingsvormen van sjwasubstantieven in het Fries. Taal en Tongval, 61, 21-44. http://www.taalentongval.eu/index.php/TenT/article/view/104/108 [details]
2021
- Versloot, A. (2021). De herbewoning van de Friese kwelders en terpnamen: Een onderzoek naar mogelijke verbanden. De Vrije Fries, 101, 86-93. https://koninklijkfriesgenootschap.nl/de-vrije-fries/nummer-101-2021/ [details]
- Versloot, A. (2021). The historical phonology of Old English: a critical review. Papers in Historical Phonology, 6, 68-106. https://doi.org/10.2218/pihph.6.2021.6690 [details]
2020
- Versloot, A. (2020). Historical Dialectology: West Frisian in Seven Centuries. In S. D. Brun, & R. Kehrein (Eds.), Handbook of the Changing World Language Map (Vol. 1, pp. 405-442). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02438-3_147, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73400-2_147-1 [details]
2016
2015
2013
- Versloot, A. (2013). Friesische Lehnwörter im Jeverländer Niederdeutsch. In J. Hoekstra (Ed.), Twenty-nine smiles for Alastair: Freundesgabe für Dr. Alastair G. H. Walker zu seinem Abschied von der Nordfriesischen Wörterbuchstelle der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel am 4. Juli 2013 (pp. 305-316). (Estrikken/Ålstråke; No. 94). Kiel, Grins/Groningen: Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Abteilung für Frisistik/Nordfriesische Wörterbuchstelkle ; Frysk Ynstitút RUG/Stifting FFYRUG. [details]
- Versloot, A., & Adamczyk, E. (2013). The Old Frisian e-plurals. In H. Brand, B. Groen, E. Hoekstra, & C. van der Meer (Eds.), De tienduizend dingen: feestbundel voor Reinier Salverda (pp. 419-434). (Fryske Akademy; No. 1075). Ljouwert: Fryske Akademy. [details]
2008
- Ormeling, F., & Versloot, A. (2008). Friese plaatsnamen als cultureel erfgoed. It Beaken : meidielingen fan de Fryske Akademy, 70(1), 3-22.
- van Bree, C., & Versloot, A. P. (2008). Oorsprongen van het Stadsfries. (FA; No. 1031). Ljouwert: Fryske Akademy/Afûk.
2006
- Versloot, A. P. (2006). It auteurskip en de datearring fan 'Ansck in Houck': in reaksje. Us Wurk, 55(3/4), 131-139. https://ugp.rug.nl/uswurk/article/view/27388
2022
- Versloot, A. (2022). Taalreizen tussen Frisia en Denemarken: Over de (on)zin van Fries — Deense taalkundige overeenkomsten. In S. van der Poll, & A. Versloot (Eds.), Vagebond: Festschrift Henk van der Liet (pp. 251-266). (Amsterdam contributions to Scandinavian studies; Vol. 9). Scandinavisch Instituut. [details]
- Versloot, A. P. (2022). Die Entwicklung von protogermanisch *ai im Niederdeutschen: ein Erklärungsversuch für die Spaltung des altsächsischen ē2. In From West to North Frisia: A Journey along the North Sea Coast.: Frisian studies in honour of Jarich Hoekstra (pp. 395-407). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- van der Poll, S., & Versloot, A. (2022). Vagebond: Festschrift Henk van der Liet. (Amsterdam Contributions to Scandinavian Studies; Vol. 9). Scandinavisch Instituut. [details]
2021
- Versloot, A. (2021). Transcriptieproblemen opgelost met de 'Transcriptor'? Geo-Info, 18(3), 37. https://geoinformatienederland.nl/artikelen/transcriptieproblemen-opgelost-met-de-transcriptor/ [details]
2015
- Versloot, A. (2015). Een korte geschiedenis van de Friese taal: kenmerken en overlevering. In H. Bloemhoff, & N. Streekstra (Eds.), Basisboek historische taalkunde: met afzonderlijke aandacht voor het Brabants, Fries, Limburgs, Nedersaksisch, Vlaams en Zeeuws (pp. 329-340). Groningen: Uitgeverij kleine Uil. [details]
2011
- Versloot, A. P. (2011). De kracht van de herhaling. (FA; No. 1049). Fryske Akademy. https://www.academia.edu/5759229/De_kracht_van_de_herhaling_oratie
2006
- Versloot, A. (2006). [Review of: K.S. Bussmann (2004) Diphthongs in Frisian, a comparative analysis of phonemic inventories past and present]. Us Wurk, 55(1-2), 59-61. https://ugp.rug.nl/uswurk/article/view/27382
2021
- Versloot, A. P. (2021). Sprachenvielfalt in Norddeutschland, Belgien und den Niederlanden: ist der Niedergang unumgänglich? Nordfriesland, 215, 18-22.
2018
- Jonkman, R. J., & Versloot, A. P. (2018). Der wie ris in mearke en dat hiet fan Stedfrysk. De Moanne. Algemien-kultureel opinybled., 17(7), 51-55.
2012
2008
- Jonkman, R. J., & Versloot, A. P. (2008). Tusken talen: it ferhaal fan de Fryske taal. Ljouwert: Afûk.
Others
- Versloot, A. (participant) & Adamczyk, E. (participant) (2-8-2022). ICHL 2022, Oxford (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
2022
2021
- Bloem, J. (2021). Processing verb clusters. LOT. [details]
- Merkuur, A. A. (2021). Changes in modern Frisian verbal inflection. LOT. https://doi.org/10.48273/LOT0603 [details]
2008
- Versloot, A. P. (2008). Mechanisms of language change: vowel reduction in 15th century West Frisian. [Thesis, fully external, Universiteit van Groningen]. LOT. http://irs.ub.rug.nl/ppn/315017821
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Nederlandse Taalunie
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Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Hoogleraar Friese Taal en Cultuur
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Nederlandse Taalunie
Stefan, N., & Versloot, A. (2022). Conditions for the Borrowing of Irregular Plurals in an Intense Language Contact Situation. Us Wurk, 71(3-4), 109-136.