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Braber, N. 
ORCID: 0000-0003-2611-1190 and McLelland, N.,
2010.
Combining modal particles in German and Dutch.
Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 22 (4), pp. 461-482.
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Abstract
This paper is a corpus-based comparative study of modal particles in German and Dutch. We examine the special ability of Dutch and German modal particles to cluster, and demonstrate that Dutch is far more cluster-friendly than German. We also find clear differences in the behavior of cognate particles in the two languages and note that a corpus study reveals quite different patterns from those arrived at by introspection in earlier research. Finally, we suggest that in attempting to capture regularities about particle usage, it is useful to consider not just the linear ordering of particles within a cluster, but also typical non-contiguous pairings (for example, as "brackets" inside which other particles may occur). We also speculate briefly on the function of particle clusters.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||
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| Publication Title: | Journal of Germanic Linguistics | ||||
| Creators: | Braber, N. and McLelland, N. | ||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||
| Date: | 2010 | ||||
| Volume: | 22 | ||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||
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| Rights: | © Cambridge University Press 2010 | ||||
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Arts and Humanities | ||||
| Record created by: | EPrints Services | ||||
| Date Added: | 09 Oct 2015 10:15 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 09 Jun 2017 13:24 | ||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/10235 |
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