Abstract
Abstract
Dutch uses cardinal posture verbs (zitten ‘to
sit’, staan ‘to stand’, and liggen ‘to lie’)
for all sorts of purposes, many of which have received considerable research
attention – like the posture progressive, e.g. zitten te lezen
‘lit. sit to read: to be reading’. This paper investigates a posture verb
pattern in which a posture verb is combined with a past participle, e.g.
zitten verstopt ‘lit. sit hidden: to be hidden’. Previous
analyses disagree on whether these patterns correspond to a fixed set of
combinations, or to a productive schema with semantic restrictions. By examining
over 6,000 attestations of the pattern, this paper evaluates these competing
accounts, concluding that the data point strongly at productivity.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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