Code
01N00912
Duration
01 January 2012 → 31 August 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- 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.