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Je begint bijna te denken dat het een squib is!
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: Nederlandse Taalkunde, Volume 29, Issue 3, Dec 2024, p. 401 - 412
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- 01 Dec 2024
Abstract
Abstract
This squib investigates the structure and usage of the Dutch cognitive bijna-beginnen-complement construction. The construction consists of the adverb bijna (‘almost’), a matrix verb, an infinitival verb of cognition and a complement. From a corpus-analysis of Dutch tweets the verbs zullen, gaan, and beginnen emerge as the most frequently used matrix verbs. Semantically, the construction expresses prospective aspect (Bogaards 2023). Retorically, it may be used in ironic utterances, sometimes resulting in a form of praeteritio.
© Milou Andree & Heize Oh