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Project
Variation and change in constructional semantics
The project is situated at the intersection of
construction grammar, historical linguistics, and variationist
sociolinguistics On the basis of extensive qualitative and quantitative corpus
research into the semantic properties of Dutch argument structure
constructions across regional, stylistic, and diachronic varieties of the
language, the project aims to identify and analyze patterns of intralingual
variation and change in constructional semantics.
Date:1 Jan 2012 → 31 Aug 2017
Keywords:language variation, dutch, syntaxis/semantiek-interface, construction grammar, arguement structure, language change
Disciplines:Linguistics, Theory and methodology of linguistics, Other languages and literary studies