Argument doubling with proper nouns in spoken Dutch
A corpus study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19437014 |
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| Authors | Imke Wets (Radboud University Nijmegen), Michelle Suijkerbuijk (Radboud University Nijmegen), Maria Den Hartog (0000-0001-6297-2129, Radboud University Nijmegen), Helen De Hoop (0000-0001-8652-1146, Radboud University Nijmegen) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Pages | 248-262 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics in the Netherlands (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0929-7332 • E-ISSN: 1569-9919 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/avt.00090.wet |
| OpenAlex | W4388290706 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Argument doubling, also known as (contrastive) left-dislocation, is common in spoken Dutch, but it is unclear exactly what triggers it. Earlier proposals in the literature showed that the construction is not used for marking contrast, and suggested it is used for marking shifted topics instead. However, the results from a Spoken Dutch Corpus study on argument doubling with proper nouns demonstrate that topic-shift does not adequately characterize the construction’s function either. Further examination of our corpus data shows that at least for proper nouns, Dutch argument doubling mostly occurs when a new referent is introduced into the discourse, but that this referent does not necessarily become the topic of the discourse. We hypothesize that argument doubling is a way of giving speakers and/or hearers some extra time to establish and/or process the new discourse referent in the discourse, regardless of whether it will become a discourse-topic after its introduction
Linguistics · Noun · Noun phrase · Referent · Computer Science · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Highly cited | No |
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