Empirical syntax : Idiolectal variability in two - and three - verb clusters in regional standard Dutch and Dutch dialects
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The goal of this paper is to dìscuss idìolectal variabilþ in a regional Dutch variefy and Dutch dialects concerning word order in the twoand threeverb cluste¡ (right periphery) on the basis of two solid empirical studies; that is, (i) a corpus 33.5 hours ofrecorded spontaneous speech of67 speakers in the cþ of Heerlen in the southeastern part of the Netherlands and (ii) a corpus of wdtten relative acceptability judgments collected for the Syntacric Atlas ofthe Dutch Dialects. The subjects in both corpora reveal idiolectal variability. One ofthe variants included in the idiolectal variability always concerns standard Dutch word order, signalling a very advanced process of standardization. The degree ofindividual variation and word order preferences depend on the type of auxiliary and morphology of the deepest embedded verb. In this paper, it is argued that a basic head-initial structure with optional verb raisìng is capable ofaccounting for the empirical results.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011