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ROA 691-1004

Argument Order Alternations in Dutch

Leonoor van der Beek <vdbeek at let.rug.nl>

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Abstract:
We investigate the factors that influence argument order
variations
in Dutch, focusing on ditransitive verbs. Evidence from
grammaticality
judgments is complemented with evidence from the distributions
of the
alternants in corpora of spoken and written Dutch. We find
that while the
NP/PP alternation is influenced by weight, the direct object
shift (DOS) in
the dative alternation is bound to certain types of pronouns.
Additional
evidence for our account for the DOS is found in the Dutch AcI
construction. Our findings are modeled within the framework
of Optimality
Theoretic syntax, allowing for violable and ranked constraints,
as well as a
stochastic interpretation of the analysis.

Comments: To appear in LFG04 Proceedings
Keywords: dative alternation, corpora, Dutch, ECM/AcI
Areas: Syntax
Type: Conference Proceedings Chapter

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