Title Acknowledgements Contents Chapter 1 : General introduction Chapter 2 : Finiteness in the source and target languages Chapter 3 : Light verbs and lexical verbs in negated sentences: On the role of the auxiliary ‘hebben’ Chapter 4 : Further support for the role of ‘hebben’: Evidence from production, imitation and processing Chapter 5 : Is there a relation between verb morphology and verb placement? Evidence from production and imitation Chapter 6 : On the role of semantic scope marking: Comparing negated sentences and sentences with adverbials Chapter 7 : Further investigating the influence of semantic scope marking: Evidence from production and processing Chapter 8 : Summary of the results and implications References Appendix Samenvatting Curriculum Vitae Complete text Cover