Modal particle or emerging inflection
The Dutch ‘success imperative’ revisited
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19437478 |
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| Authors | Ton van der Wouden (0000-0001-9616-9078, Leiden University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Pages | 173-186 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-03 |
| 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.00012.wou |
| OpenAlex | W2903310389 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Dutch has a construction consisting of a verbal part and something else: ′wɛrksə ‘enjoy your work’ ( werk ‘to work’), ′rujzə ‘enjoy your rowing’ ( roei ‘to row’). According to accepted wisdom, this ‘success imperative’, as it is known in the literature, consists of an imperative and a pronoun ze ‘them’. The paper challenges the standard analysis and investigates two alternatives: an imperative form plus a modal particle, and a verbal stem plus an inflectional ending
Inflection · Linguistics · Modal · Modal verb · Pronoun · Rowing · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Gender Studies in Language · History · Linguistic research and analysis · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy · Psychology · Mechanical Engineering
| Highly cited | No |
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