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Project

A comparative study of alternating presentational constructions in Dutch, English and Italian. 
Code
01D06316
Duration
01 October 2016 → 30 September 2021
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • 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.