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Linguistics in the Netherlands 2022
Edited by Jorrig Vogels and Sterre Leufkens
[Linguistics in the Netherlands 39] 2022
► pp. 2–20

The syntax of progressive and ingressive aanhet-constructions in Dutch

| Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL)
| Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL)
| Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL)

This paper presents a novel syntactic analysis of the much-debated Dutch aanhet-construction, e.g. Pieter is aan het opruimen ‘lit. Peter is on the cleanup: Peter is cleaning up’. We show that the construction’s syntactic behavior varies with the matrix verb: progressive zijn ‘be’ versus ingressive gaan ‘go’ and slaan ‘hit’. Based on this variation, we argue that there are two aanhet-projections occupying different synchronic positions on a functional-to-lexical cline.

Keywords: Progressive aspect, Ingressive aspect, aan het-construction, Semi-lexicality, Dutch
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Previous accounts
  • 3.Comparison
    • 3.1IPP
    • 3.2High IA/Prt
    • 3.3Complex verb constructions
    • 3.4 Van-objects
    • 3.5R-extraction
    • 3.6Overview
  • 4.Coercion
  • 5.Analysis
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
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Published online: 4 November 2022
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