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Abstract In Dutch sentences like Ik ga verhuizen, zei Jan (‘I am going to move, said John’), the first part contains direct speech, that is followed by the reporting clause zei Jan ‘said John’. The latter is a parenthetical and as such it can also be inserted in the middle of the quote: Ik ga, zei Jan, verhuizen. A remarkable feature of this type of sentences is that the reporting clause starts with subject-verb inversion (zei Jan), which h Read More

Abstract This paper examines the semantic structuring of a paradigm of 89 minimizers, i.e., nouns that reinforce sentential negation in present-day Netherlandic Dutch, such as meter ‘meter’ in voor geen meter vertrouwen ‘not to trust for a meter’. Cosine distances are computed on the basis of the predicates the minimizers combine with in a sample of 100 tokens downloaded from the Dutch Web corpus 2014 (nlTenTen14) and cl Read More