A new and challenging view on verb clustering* | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
2004
Volume 24, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 1384-5845
  • E-ISSN: 2352-1171

Abstract

Abstract

This review article discusses Lotte Dros-Hendriks’ PhD thesis (2018). A ground-breaking book, as it provides a simple, principled account for the geographical distribution of the various word orders found in so-called ‘verb’ clusters in the Dutch dialects. It will be shown, however, that the account is based on a number of controversial and insufficiently motivated premises. This article raises a number of potential problems for these premises, which should find a satisfactory solution before we can wholeheartedly adopt the core insights provided by this interesting work.

Loading

Article metrics loading...

/content/journals/10.5117/NEDTAA2019.2.004.BROE
2019-09-01
2024-03-28
Loading full text...

Full text loading...

/deliver/fulltext/13845845/24/2/04_NEDTAA2019_2_BROE.html?itemId=/content/journals/10.5117/NEDTAA2019.2.004.BROE&mimeType=html&fmt=ahah

References

  1. Barbiers, Sjef(2005). Word-order variation in three-verb clusters and the division of labour between generative linguistics and sociolinguistics. In: LeonieCornips & KarenP. Corrigan (eds.), Syntax and variation. Reconciling the biological and the social. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins, 233-264.
    [Google Scholar]
  2. Barbiers, Sjef(2008). Werkwoordclusters en de grammatica van de rechterperiferie (followed by a discussion with Arnold Evers). Nederlandse Taalkunde13, 160-197.
    [Google Scholar]
  3. Barbiers, Sjef, HansBennis & LotteDros-Hendriks(2018). Merging verb cluster variation. Linguistic Variation18, 145-197.
    [Google Scholar]
  4. Barbiers, Sjef, Johanvan der Auwera, HansBennis, EefjeBoef, GuntherDe Vogelaer & Margreetvan de Ham(2008). Syntactische atlas van de Nederlandse dialecten [Syntactic atlas of the Dutch dialects], volume II. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
    [Google Scholar]
  5. Broekhuis, Hans(1997). Nogmaals Verb Projection Raising. Tabu27, 1-27.
    [Google Scholar]
  6. Broekhuis, Hans(2008). Derivations and evaluations: object shift in the Germanic languages. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
    [Google Scholar]
  7. Broekhuis, Hans(2013). Syntax of Dutch. Adjectives and adjective phrases. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
    [Google Scholar]
  8. Broekhuis, Hans (to appear). The rise of the periphrastic perfect tense in the continental West Germanic languages. In: KristinMelum Eide & MarcFryd (eds.), The perfect volume: Papers on the perfect. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins <prefinal version available at ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003206>.
    [Google Scholar]
  9. Broekhuis, Hans & LeonieCornips(1994). Undative constructions. Linguistics32, 173-190.
    [Google Scholar]
  10. Broekhuis, Hans & LeonieCornips(2012). The verb krijgen ‘to get’ as an undative verb. Linguistics50, 1205-1249.
    [Google Scholar]
  11. Broekhuis, Hans & EvelienKeizer(2012). Syntax of Dutch. Nouns and noun phrases, volume 1. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
    [Google Scholar]
  12. Broekhuis, Hans & Keesvan Dijk(1995). The syntactic function of the auxiliary of time. In: MarcelDen Dikken & KeesHengeveld (eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 1995. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins.
    [Google Scholar]
  13. Chomsky, Noam(1995). The minimalist program. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
    [Google Scholar]
  14. Chomsky, Noam(2005). Three factors in language design. Linguistic Inquiry36, 1-22.
    [Google Scholar]
  15. Coppen, Peter-Arno & MaartenKlein(1992). Het einde van Verb Raising. In: MaartenKlein (ed.), Nieuwe eskapades in de Neerlandistiek. Opstellen van vrienden voor M.C. van den Toorn bij zijn afscheid als hoogleraar Nederlandse Taalkunde aan de Katholieke Universteit Nijmegen. Groningen: Wolters-Noordhoff, 32-46.
    [Google Scholar]
  16. Coussé, Evie(2008). Motivaties voor volgordevariatie. Een diachrone studie van werkwoordsvolgorde in het Nederlands. PhD thesis Ghent University.
    [Google Scholar]
  17. DenBesten, Hans & HansBroekhuis(1989). Woordvolgorde in de werkwoordelijke eindreeks. GLOT12, 79-137.
    [Google Scholar]
  18. DenBesten, Hans & HansBroekhuis(1992). Verb Projection Raising in het Nederlands. Spektator21, 21-34.
    [Google Scholar]
  19. DenBesten, Hans & JeroldE. Edmondson(1983). The verbal complex in continental West Germanic. In: WernerAbraham (ed.), On the formal syntax of Westgermania. Papers from the ‘3rd Groninger Grammar Talks’, January 1981. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 155-216.
    [Google Scholar]
  20. DenBesten, Hans & GertWebelhuth(1987). Remnant topicalization and the constituent structure of VP in the Germanic SOV languages. GLOW Newsletter18, 15-16.
    [Google Scholar]
  21. DenBesten, Hans & GertWebelhuth(1990). Stranding. In: GüntherGrewendorf & WolfgangSternefeld (eds.), Scrambling and barriers. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 77-92.
    [Google Scholar]
  22. Dros-Hendriks, Lotte(2018). Not another book on Verb Raising. PhD thesis University of Leiden.
    [Google Scholar]
  23. Evers, Arnold(1975). The transformational cycle in Dutch and German. PhD thesis University of Utrecht.
    [Google Scholar]
  24. Haegeman, Liliane & Henkvan Riemsdijk(1986). Verb projection raising, scope, and the typology of rules affecting verbs. Linguistic Inquiry17, 417-466.
    [Google Scholar]
  25. Hawkins, John A.(1994). A performance theory of order and constituency. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    [Google Scholar]
  26. Kayne, Richard S.(1994). The antisymmetry of syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
    [Google Scholar]
  27. Kern, Johan H.(1912). De met het participium praeteriti omschreven werkwoordsvormen in 't Nederlands. Amsterdam: Johannes Müller.
    [Google Scholar]
  28. Koeneman, Olaf, MarikaLekakou & SjefBarbiers(2011). Perfect doubling. Linguistic Variation11, 35-75.
    [Google Scholar]
  29. Koster, Jan(1975). Dutch as an SOV language. Linguistic Analysis1, 111-136.
    [Google Scholar]
  30. Van Craenenbroeck, Jeroen(2019). Dialectologie en Nederlandse Zinsbouw. Nederlandse Taalkunde24, 39-68.
    [Google Scholar]
  31. Van de Velde, Freek(2017). Understanding grammar at the community level requires a diachronic perspective: evidence from case studies. Nederlandse Taalkunde22, 47-74.
    [Google Scholar]
  32. Van der Wal, Marijke J.(1986). Passiefproblemen in oudere taalfasen. PhD thesis University of Leiden.
    [Google Scholar]
  33. Vandekerckhove, Reinhild(2019). Dialectologie en Nederlandse zinsbouw vanuit het perspectief van taal(norm)verandering: een reactie op de bijdrage van Jeroen van Craenenbroeck. Nederlandse Taalkunde24, 69-73.
    [Google Scholar]
  34. Wasow, Thomas(1977). Transformation and the Lexicon. In: PeterCulicover, ThomasWasow & AdrianAkmajian (eds.), Formal syntax. New York: Academic Press, 327-360.
    [Google Scholar]
  35. Williams, Edwin(2004). The structure of clusters. In: KatalinÉ. Kiss and HenkVan Riemsdijk (eds.), Verb Clusters. A study of Hungarian, German and Dutch. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 173-201.
    [Google Scholar]
  36. Wurmbrand, Susi(2017). Verb clusters, verb raising and restructuring. In: MartinEveraert and Henkvan Riemsdijk (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell companion to syntax [2nd, revised edition]. Hoboken, New Jersey, Blackwell, 4611-4719.
    [Google Scholar]
  37. Zwart, Jan-Wouter(1993). Dutch syntax. A minimalist approach. PhD thesis University of Groningen.
    [Google Scholar]
http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/journals/10.5117/NEDTAA2019.2.004.BROE
Loading
/content/journals/10.5117/NEDTAA2019.2.004.BROE
Loading

Data & Media loading...

  • Article Type: Research Article
Keyword(s): adjectival participle; linearization; nominalization; verb clustering
This is a required field
Please enter a valid email address
Approval was a Success
Invalid data
An Error Occurred
Approval was partially successful, following selected items could not be processed due to error