Open AccessA construction-based analysis of Dutch verb clusters
Author(s) -
Liesbeth Augustinus
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1535-1793
DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2018.1
Subject(s) - verb , word order , hierarchy , variety (cybernetics) , linguistics , phrase , variation (astronomy) , feature (linguistics) , computer science , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , reflexive verb , word (group theory) , mathematics , modal verb , physics , philosophy , economics , astrophysics , market economy
Dutch is well-known for the formation of verb clusters. A characteristic aspect of such constructions is that the order of the verbs may differ from the order in which they are selected. Across the Dutch language area verb clusters show different types of word order variation. This paper proposes a constructivist account of word order variation in Dutch verb clusters. Linearization is not modelled in terms of the GVOR feature, after Kathol (2000). Instead, it relies on the bidimensional phrase hierarchy initiated by Ginzburg & Sag (2000), which is extended for the analysis of constructions with verb clusters. This proposal accounts for the most common instances of word order variation in Dutch verb clusters, and it can be easily adapted to model a specific variety or dialect.