Adposition clusters in Dutch

Frank Van Eynde | University of Leuven

This paper demonstrates that Dutch not only has verb clusters, but also adposition clusters. It identifies the adpositions that participate in clustering and provides quantitative data about their use in corpora of spoken Dutch and written Dutch.

Keywords: adposition, cluster, Dutch, circumposition, stranding, string search, regular expression.

Published online: 12 April 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.210.05van

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