Taal en Tongval - Volume 64, Issue 1, 2012

Een typische eigenschap van het Nederlands (en andere West-Germaanse talen zoals het Duits en het Fries) is dat werkwoorden zich ophopen aan het einde van de zin in een zogenaamde werkwoordcluster. In hoofdzinnen bestaat die werkwoordcluster uit alle niet-finiete werkwoorden van de zin en in bijzinnen uit alle niet-finiete werkwoorden samen met het finiete werkwoord. De onderlinge volgorde van de werkwoorden in di Read More

Gegenstand der vorliegenden Untersuchung ist die Verwendung unterschiedlicher Reihenfolge in verbalen Endgruppen im Mittelniederländischen des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts. Zunächst wird die empirische Analyse von 3610 Verbclustern hinsichtlich der syntaktischen Struktur aus einer früheren Untersuchung vorgestellt. Dabei werden Aspekte wie Zeitraum, Art des Hilfsverbs, Satzkomplexität und Schreibdialekt als wicht Read More

The early 17th century comedies by Amsterdam authors Bredero, Tengnagel and Coster are written in a vernacular-like style resembling the variety spoken in Amsterdam at the time. The 17th century Amsterdam vernacular in those texts both morphologically and phonologically resembles 20th century Hollandic dialects as the Marken or Katwijk dialects or West-Frisian. The present corpus-based investigation deals with word orde Read More

A typical characteristic of Dutch (and other Continental West Germanic languages such as German and Frisian) is that verbs (both finite and infinite) appear together at the end of the subordinate clause in a so-called verb cluster. The ordering of the verbs within these verb clusters is not fixed in most historical stages of the Dutch language. This article studies the variable placement within verb clusters consisting of two verbs usin Read More

Particle verbs are particle-verb combinations of which the constituting elements may or may not appear separately. This article looks at a subgroup of particle verbs with a preposition as their first part, like opbellen [to call]. When using a particle verb in a verbal cluster at the end of a clause, a Dutch speaker is free to choose between keeping particle and verb together or separating them. These possibilities are both grammatic Read More

This paper investigates a series of Germanic verb constructions, which appear to involve the ‘wrong’ morphology on one or more of the verbs involved: Norwegian parasitic participles, Frisian upward and downward parasitic participles, and the German Skandal construction. I provide an explicit syntactic account unifying the phenomena and deriving the differences from independent differences among the languages. The Read More