A historical inquiry into the adjective phrase in Dutch. KU Leuven
Formal and Computational Linguistics (ComForT), Leuven, Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL), Leuven
In this project an inquiry is made into the syntax of the Dutch adjective from a diachronic point of view. The research hypothesis is that the adjective phrase has been expanded with various 'layers' in the course of time. Layering is a theoretical concept (see a.o. Siewierska 1992; Butler 1996, 2003; Butler & Taverniers 2008) that has been fruitfully used in syntactic research on the structure of the clause and the noun phrase. In this ...