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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
 
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).