Code
01D27415
Duration
01 October 2015 → 01 May 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- 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).