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We present a wide-coverage computational parser and grammar for Dutch. The grammar is developed within the tradition of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar and provides detailed and linguistically motivated accounts for most syntactic phenomena in Dutch. A broad overview of the grammar and lexicon is given, as well as a more detailed discussion of the analysis of comparatives and partitive constructions. Parsing and disambiguation uses statistical information, which is derived in part from a syntactically annotated treebank. The accuracy and coverage of the grammar is evaluated on representative portions of the tree-bank and a number of problematic constructions for the current grammar are identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]