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The globalization of local indexicalities through music : African-American English and the blues Ghent University
This article reports on a sociolinguistic study into the prevalence of African-American English (AAE) features in the lyrical language use of blues artists, relying on data from different social and national backgrounds and time periods. It adopts a variationist linguistic methodological approach to examine the prevalence of five AAE forms in live-performed blues music: /a?/ monophthongization, post-consonantal word-final /t/ deletion, ...
The acquisition of Hindi split-ergativity and differential object marking by Dutch L1 speakers : systematicity and variation Ghent University
We investigated the acquisition of Hindi split ergativity (zero or ne-marking) and Hindi Differential Object Marking (zero or ko-marking) by L1 speakers of Dutch. Both grammatical phenomena are conditioned by multiple syntactic and semantic features. On a descriptive level, the study aims to examine when and how Dutch-speaking learners acquire and apply the conditional features associated with ne- and ko-marking in Hindi as a foreign language ...
The ditransitive alternation in present-day German : a corpus-based analysis Ghent University
The study is a corpus-based analysis of the ditransitive alternation in present-day German with 17 noncomplex and complex verbs, viz. geben, schicken, senden; abgeben, preisgeben, übergeben, vergeben, weitergeben, zurückgeben; einschicken, einsenden, übersenden, zurückschicken, zurücksenden; ausleihen, verleihen and verkaufen. The alternating constructions are the Indirect Object Construction (IOC) and the Prepositional Object Construction ...
The acquisition of Differential Object Marking : a longitudinal study on L1 Dutch learners of Hindi as a foreign language Ghent University
This article investigates the acquisition of Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Hindi as a foreign language. The study aims to verify earlier cross-sectional studies on Hindi DOM, and their earlier explanations related to L1 influence, item-based learning and semantic mapping. Via multiple oral interviews with five L1 Dutch speakers we compiled a longitudinal learner corpus of n = 3684 utterances. Our findings confirm high omission rates, ...
Possibility modals : which conditions make them possible? Ghent University
The alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat construction in present-day German : a corpus study Ghent University
French ingressives and (phasal) aspect : a frame-semantic corpus-based analysis Ghent University
This article compares the usage of commencer a 'to begin'+Vinf. and se mettre a 'to start' + Vinf. in modern French. Using a corpus sample of 2000 observations, we examined the effect of Adverbial complementation, of Event type (aspect), and of Tense. Based on a mixed-effects logistic regression analysis, we found evidence for Event type, where se mettre a is associated with activities, and Tense, where se mettre a seems to be associated with ...