The 42nd annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 5th, 2011. This volume contains a selection of these papers, which present an overview of the research in a variety of fields in linguistics.

1. Foreword; 2. Obituary; 3. Doubling PPs in Flemish dialects (by Aelbrecht, Lobke); 4. Squat, zero and no/nothing: Syntactic negation vs. Semantic negation (by De Clercq, Karen); 5. Negative polarity in morphology: The case of Frisian FOLLE 'much, many' as compared to Dutch VEEL (by Hoekstra, Eric); 6. The Path is the Goal: On the goal postposition ut in Modern West Frisian (by Hoekstra, Jarich); 7. Doch, toch and wel on the table (by Hogeweg, Lotte); 8. The syntax of correlatives in New Testament Greek (by Kirk, Allison); 9. New changes in English: A diachronic perspective on the relation between newness and syntax (by Komen, Erwin R.); 10. Attributive possession in the languages of South America (by Krasnoukhova, Olga); 11. Iconicity of sequence in source and goal encoding in two Papuan languages of south-east Indonesia (by Schapper, Antoinette); 12. Input-Reduplicant correspondence in Leti (by Sloos, Marjoleine); 13. Evidentiality. Dutch seem and appear verbs: blijken, lijken, schijnen (by Vliegen, Maurice)