Article published in:
Corpus Methods for Semantics: Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymyEdited by Dylan Glynn and Justyna A. Robinson
[Human Cognitive Processing 43] 2014
► pp. 39–60
Competing ‘transfer’ constructions in Dutch
The case of ont-verbs
Martine Delorge | Ghent University
Koen Plevoets | Ghent University
Timothy Colleman | Ghent University
This paper zooms in on the semantic relations between the constructions of
“possessional transfer” (i.e. constructions used to encode events of possessional
transfer) in Dutch by zooming in on a specific morphological class of dispossession
verbs, viz. verbs with the prefix ont- ‘away’, such as ontnemen ‘take away’,
ontfutselen ‘fish out of ’, onttrekken ‘extract, withdraw’, ontheffen ‘relieve’, etc. A
database with several thousand attested ont-examples from various corpora of
present-day written Dutch will serve as the starting point for an investigation of
their constructional possibilities and preferences: the ont-verbs will be shown
to cluster into a number of subclasses in terms of alternation possibilities. In
addition, a comparison of these present-day Dutch results with data from a
diachronic corpus of 19th century Dutch will reveal a number of lexico-grammatical
shifts: the use of the double object construction and (especially) of the
aan-dative with ont-verbs is more heavily constrained now than it was in earlier
stages of the language.
Keywords: aan-dative, alternations, dispossession verbs, Dutch, ont-verbs
Published online: 06 November 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.43.02del
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.43.02del
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