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Linguistics in the Netherlands 2018Edited by Bert Le Bruyn and Janine Berns
[Linguistics in the Netherlands 35] 2018
► pp. 173–186
Modal particle or emerging inflection?
The Dutch ‘success imperative’ revisited
Ton van der Wouden | Leiden University
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.
Keywords: morphology, imperative, modal particle, inflection, dummy pronoun
Article outline
- Introduction
- Alternative analysis 1: Ze as a modal particle
- Alternative analysis 2: Ze as an inflectional ending
- Concluding remarks
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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References
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Published online: 03 December 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/avt.00012.wou
https://doi.org/10.1075/avt.00012.wou
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