A new and challenging view on verb clustering: On 'Not another book on Verb Raising' by Lotte Dros-Hendriks

Hans Broekhuis

doi:10.5117/NEDTAA2019.2.004.BROE

A new and challenging view on verb clustering: On 'Not another book on Verb Raising' by Lotte Dros-Hendriks

Hans Broekhuis

Meertens Instituut - Variatielinguïstiek

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This review article discusses Lotte Dros-Hendriks’ PhD thesis ‘Not another book on Verb Raising’ (2018), part of which is also published in Linguistic Variation 18 (p. 145-197) as: Sjef Barbiers, Hans Bennis, and Lotte Dros-Hendriks ‘Merging verb cluster variation’. The book provides a simple, principled account for the geographical distribution of the various word orders found in so-called “verb” clusters in the Dutch dialects. It will be shown, however, that the account is based on a number of controversial and insufficiently motivated premises. This article raises a number of potential problems for these premises, which should find a satisfactory solution before we can wholeheartedly adopt the core insights provided by this interesting work.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	213-245
Number of pages	33
Journal	Nederlandse Taalkunde
Volume	24
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5117/NEDTAA2019.2.004.BROE
Publication status	Published - Oct 2019

Keywords

verb cluster
linearization
adjectival participle
nominalization
syntax

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A new and challenging view on verb clustering: On 'Not another book on Verb Raising' by Lotte Dros-Hendriks

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