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De zijnsstatus van de afhankelijke V1-constructie in het Nederlands
The ontological status of the dependent verb-first construction in Dutch
Dependent verb-first clauses have received a fair amount of interest from a functionalist perspective. In this paper, I argue that their conceived unity as a grammatical construction might be overstated. I do so on the basis of both categorical and probabilistic differences in the distributions of the various types that I discern. The shared functional properties of the various dependent verb-first clauses are best seen as non-conventional tendencies rather than as a conventional symbolic function, that may have driven the development historically, but is not a part of the inventory of linguistic knowledge of a language user synchronically.
Dependent verb-first clauses have received a fair amount of interest from a functionalist perspective. In this paper, I argue that their conceived unity as a grammatical construction might be overstated. I do so on the basis of both categorical and probabilistic differences in the distributions of the various types that I discern. The shared functional properties of the various dependent verb-first clauses are best seen as non-conventional tendencies rather than as a conventional symbolic function, that may have driven the development historically, but is not a part of the inventory of linguistic knowledge of a language user synchronically.
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Keywords: Dutch; asyndetic subordinate clauses; conditionals; construction grammar; conventionality; exemplar-based grammar; memory-based learning; verb-first
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: Barend Beekhuizen, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Email: [email protected]
Publication date: March 1, 2016
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