Project

Variation and change in constructional semantics

Code
01N00912
Duration
01 January 2012 → 31 August 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • Linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
language variation dutch syntaxis/semantiek-interface construction grammar arguement structure language change
 
Project description

The project is situated at the intersection of

construction grammar, historical linguistics, and variationist

sociolinguistics On the basis of extensive qualitative and quantitative corpus

research into the semantic properties of Dutch argument structure

constructions across regional, stylistic, and diachronic varieties of the

language, the project aims to identify and analyze patterns of intralingual

variation and change in constructional semantics.