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Project

Contact-related constructional change in Dutch argument structure constructions
Code
01D27415
Duration
01 October 2015 → 01 May 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
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Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • Language studies
    • Linguistics
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
contact linguistics argument structure constructions construction grammar English constructional change Dutch french 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century Contemporary English French Dutch Quantitative Language and text analysis Western Europe Linguistics
 
Project description

The project investigates the pathways and theoretical implications of contact-related change in the formal and semantic properties of schematic grammatical constructions and/or in their frequency of use. The empirical focus is on selected argument structure constructions from 19th Century Belgian Dutch (contact language: French) and from present-day Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch (contact language: English).