The so-called ‘raising-to-subject’ pattern that verbs of the type believe can occur in is usually treated as the passive alternative for the so-called ‘raising-to-object’ pattern. In addition to broadening the empirical basis for the opposite claim that the English and Dutch raising-to-subject (or ‘nominative and infinitive’) patterns have a special functionality which is different from that of the passive construction, this paper specifically examines the stronger proposition that this has always been the case. It empirically investigates whether this proposition holds equally well for English and Dutch through a comparison of the frequencies of believe-type raising-to-object and raising-to-subject patterns in two diachronic corpora. The methodology makes use of Distinctive Collexeme Analysis.
2018. Recent change in the productivity and schematicity of theway-construction: A distributional semantic analysis. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 14:1 ► pp. 65 ff.
2016. The integration of exemplars and prior knowledge in the extension of schematic constructions: evidence from Chinese emerge-hide construction. Language Sciences 56 ► pp. 1 ff.
2015. Contrastive Collostructional Analysis: Causative Constructions in English and French. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 63:3 ► pp. 253 ff.
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