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Article published In: Linguistics in the Netherlands 2018
Edited by Bert Le Bruyn and Janine Berns
[Linguistics in the Netherlands 35] 2018
► pp. 173–186

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Modal particle or emerging inflection?

The Dutch ‘success imperative’ revisited

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Published online: 3 December 2018
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Abstract
Dutch has a construction consisting of a verbal part and something else: ′wɛrksə ‘enjoy your work’ (< werk ‘to work’), ′rujzə ‘enjoy your rowing’ (< roei ‘to row’). According to accepted wisdom, this ‘success imperative’, as it is known in the literature, consists of an imperative and a pronoun ze ‘them’. The paper challenges the standard analysis and investigates two alternatives: an imperative form plus a modal particle, and a verbal stem plus an inflectional ending.
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Alternative analysis 1: Ze as a modal particle
  • Alternative analysis 2: Ze as an inflectional ending
  • Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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