In:Crossroads Semantics: Computation, experiment and grammar
Edited by Hilke Reckman, Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng, Maarten Hijzelendoorn and Rint Sybesma
[Not in series 210] 2017
► pp. 77–92
Chapter 5Adposition clusters in Dutch
Published online: 12 April 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.210.05van
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.210.05van
Abstract
This paper demonstrates that Dutch not only has verb clusters, but also adposition clusters. It identifies the adpositions that participate in clustering and provides quantitative data about their use in corpora of spoken Dutch and written Dutch.
Keywords: adposition, cluster, Dutch, circumposition, stranding, string search, regular expression.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Adposition clustering exists
- 2.1A first attempt
- 2.2A second attempt
- 3.Identifying the clustering adpositions
- 3.1Retrieval
- 3.2Filtering
- 3.3An objection and its rebuttal
- 4.Properties of the Dutch adposition clusters
- 5.Conclusion
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