Nederlandse Taalkunde - Volume 29, Issue 2, 2024

Abstract In this article I argue that A+P adverbs like hardop ‘aloud’ and languit ‘at full length’ are words composed of an adjective (hard ‘hard’, lang ‘long’) and an intransitive adposition (a particle or sometimes a locational adposition) functioning as a suffix. This description differs from Corver’s (2022), according to whom the expressions are adpositional phrases. His analysis is meant to illustrate six points of view that have beco Read More

Abstract Middle Dutch sports a number of verbs whose past participle occurs without the characteristic ge-prefix, because of their inherently perfective aspect: bliven (‘stay’), brengen (‘bring’), comen (‘come’), liden (‘(under)go’), vinden (‘find’) and werden (‘become’). This article presents a multivariate analysis of a corpus study on 2683 tokens of these Middle Dutch participles. It confirms earlier hypotheses on the Hollandi Read More