Code
01D06316
Duration
01 October 2016 → 30 September 2021
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
Syntax
prosody
English
Italian
Dutch
Comparative
Quantitative
Surveys
Contemporary
Comparative linguistics
General linguistics
Information structure
Syntax-discourse interface
Western Europe
Linguistics
Project description
This project investigates the functional range of and the alternation between four types of presentational constructions (prosodic inversion, syntactic inversion, syntactic inversion with filler insertion and syntactic split) in Dutch, English and Italian. The constructions are studied both from a language-specific and a contrastive perspective, using magnitude estimation tasks administered online through a crowdsourcing platform.