Article published in:
Current trends in analyzing syntactic variationEdited by Ludovic De Cuypere, Clara Vanderschueren and Gert De Sutter
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics 31] 2017
► pp. 137–164
Agreement mismatches in Dutch relatives
Gosse Bouma | University of Groningen
This paper investigates agreement mismatches in Dutch relatives. While the norm
is that singular neuter nouns occur with the relative pronoun
dat ‘that’, it is by now quite common to find neuter nouns
combining with the relative pronoun die. A large Twitter corpus
is used to study which linguistic variables make die ‘that’ in
this context more likely. Lack of agreement between neuter noun and relative
pronoun is very frequent in this corpus (37.5% of the cases, 46.8% if the
preceding determiner is indefinite). Non-agreement is most common for nouns that
are high in the animacy ranking, but it also occurs with other semantic classes,
and there is quite a bit of lexical variation. Young, female users have a
stronger tendency to use non-agreeing relative pronouns. Contrary to what
previous work suggests, we do not find that users with a Moroccan or Turkish
background have a stronger tendency towards non-agreement. A comparison of
tweets with agreeing and non-agreeing pronouns and a comparison of the Twitter
corpus with web data both suggest that non-agreement is characteristic of
informal language use.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Previous work
- 2.1Dutch nominal agreement
- 2.2Language use on social media
- 3.Corpus construction
- 4.Linguistic variation
- 5.Demographic variation
- 6.Formality
- 7.Conclusion
- Notes
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Published online: 23 April 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.00006.bou
https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.00006.bou
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