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Nederlandse Taalkunde - Volume 20, Issue 3, 2015
Volume 20, Issue 3, 2015
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The nominalization of Dutch particle verbs: Schema unification and second order schemas
By Geert BooijAbstractThe event nominalizations of Dutch particle verbs and other types of separable complex verbs are not derivations from particle verbs, but compounds nouns, with a deverbal head preceded by a word that functions semantically as a modifier of the verbal base of the head noun. This structural analysis explains two empirical generalizations: (i) simplex verbs allow for nominalization with -ing when embedded in compounds; (ii) particle verbs have corresponding nominalizations with the same unproductive type of nominalization as the corresponding simplex verbs.
In order to account for these generalizations, the following related concepts from the theoretical framework of Construction Morphology are used: the representation of word formation patterns by means of constructional schemas (in which form-meaning asymmetries can be specified), schema unification (with unified schemas having their own degree of productivity), constructional idioms (constructional schemas with lexically filled slots), and second order schemas. Thus, this case study illustrates the descriptive power of Construction Morphology.
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Vrouwelijke persoonsnamen in het Nederlands
By Jan DonAbstractDutch Female Personal Names
In this paper I argue that the formation of female personal nouns in Dutch provides no argument for so-called ‘paradigmatic’ means of word-formation. In the literature (Van Marle 1985, 1986) it has been argued that these nouns in particular provide an argument for paradigmatic word-formation. More in particular, Van Marle observes that female nouns in –ster only exist if there is a neutral personal noun in –er. He therefore concludes that in order to form female personal nouns in –ster, the grammar needs to check whether there is an existing word in –er. However, it can be demonstrated that such means are superfluous once we acknowledge that –er is the realization of a more abstract morpheme, which potentiates the affixation of a morpheme deriving female nouns, realized as –ster. Second, that Dutch hosts a haplology rule that deletes –er immediately before –ster. Since haplology is independently motivated (see e.g. Yip 1998, Nevins 2012), the present contribution provides an argument against paradigmatic means for word-formation.
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Reassessing the effect of the complexity principle on PP Placement in Dutch*
Authors: Annelore Willems & Gert De SutterAbstractThe present paper aims at refining current knowledge about the so-called complexity principle as one of the driving forces in Dutch constituent ordering as well as re-evaluating the common assumption in traditional Dutch reference grammars that the middle field position is the standard slot for non-predicate PPs. Building on journalistic data in the Dutch Parallel Corpus, it is first shown that non-predicate PPs are significantly more often placed in postfield position (the structural position after the final verb cluster) than in middle field position (the position before the final verb cluster), which indicates that the postfield position rather than the middle field position should be considered the standard slot for PPs in written Dutch. Second, a binary logistic regression analysis is fitted in order to empirically test the complexity principle. The results show that the syntactic weight of the PP affects PP placement significantly, which is in line with was found earlier, but contrary to previous findings the weight of the middle field position itself has no significant effect and, interestingly, the interaction between PP weight and postfield weight appears to be a significant predictor too. On the basis of these findings, we propose a refined account of the complexity principle, in which both PP weight and postfield weight govern the positioning of non-predicate PPs in written Dutch.*
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Authors: Hans Bennis & Frans Hinskens
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