Adviserend beter
De pragmatiek en syntaxis van een modaal-subjectief bijwoord
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21701065 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristel Doreleijers (0000-0001-7452-2010), Norbert Corver |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-39 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nederlandse taalkunde (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1384-5845 • E-ISSN: 2352-1171 |
| Publisher | Amsterdam University Press (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.5117/nedtaa2021.1.002.dore |
| OpenAlex | W3160717497 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This paper presents a qualitative analysis of a construction that has not been studied extensively yet, namely the Dutch beter-construction, as in Beter ga je bij Starbucks koffie halen, ‘You better get yourself a coffee at Starbucks’. The paper gives a detailed description of the syntactic structure and the pragmatics of the construction. We argue that the sentence-initial adverb beter in the beter-construction differs, in both meaning and distributional characteristics, from the comparative adverb beter. By conducting three tests based on Broekhuis & Corver (2016), we show that it functions as a clause adverb in contrast to comparative beter, which functions as a VP-adverb. Moreover, we show that the adverb beter in the beter-construction shares important properties with modal and subjective adverbs. Adopting the generative-linguistic approach to clausal structure, we further propose that modal beter is a phrase that undergoes movement from a sentence-internal modifier position to the clause-initial position
Adverb · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Noun · Phrase · Sentence · Computer Science · linguistics and terminology studies · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |