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Periphrastic Progressive Constructions in Dutch and Afrikaans: A Contrastive Analysis
Journal of Germanic Linguistics ( IF 0.588 ) Pub Date : 2017-11-23 , DOI: 10.1017/s1470542717000022
Adri Breed , Frank Brisard , Ben Verhoeven

Given the common ancestry of Dutch and Afrikaans, it is not surprising that they use similar periphrastic constructions to express progressive meaning:aan het(Dutch) andaan die/’t(Afrikaans) lit. ‘at the’;bezig met/(om)te(Dutch) lit. ‘busy with/to’ andbesig om telit. ‘busy to’ (Afrikaans); and so-called cardinal posture verb constructions (zitten/sit‘sit’,staan‘stand’,liggen/lê‘lie’ andlopen/loop‘walk’), CPVte(‘to’ Dutch) and CPVen(‘and’ Afrikaans). However, these cognate constructions have grammaticalized to different extents. To assess the exact nature of these differences, we analyzed the constructions with respect to overall frequency, collocational range, and transitivity (compatibility with transitive predicates and passivizability). We used two corpora that are equal in size (both about 57 million words) and contain roughly the same types of written text. It turns out that the use of periphrastic progressives is generally more widespread in Afrikaans than in Dutch. As far as grammaticalization is concerned, we found that the Afrikaansaan die- and CPV-constructions, as well as the Dutchbezig- and CPV-constructions, are semantically restricted. In addition, only the Afrikaansbesig- and CPVen-constructions allow passivization, which is remarkable for such periphrastic expressions.*

中文翻译:

荷兰语和南非荷兰语中的外围渐进式结构:对比分析

鉴于荷兰语和南非荷兰语的共同血统,他们使用类似的外围结构来表达渐进意义也就不足为奇了:呸呸呸(荷兰语)和一个死/不(南非荷兰语)点燃。'在';遇见了/()(荷兰语)点亮。'忙于/去'和勿忘我点燃。“忙于”(南非荷兰语);和所谓的基本姿势动词结构(齐腾/坐'坐',斯坦'站立',利根/lê“谎言”和开/环'步行'),每次观看费用(“到”荷兰语)和 CPVzh(“和”南非荷兰语)。然而,这些同源结构在不同程度上已经语法化。为了评估这些差异的确切性质,我们分析了关于整体频率、搭配范围和及物性(与及物谓词的兼容性和可被动性)的结构。我们使用了两个大小相同(均约 5700 万字)且包含大致相同类型的书面文本的语料库。事实证明,在南非荷兰语中使用外围进步词通常比在荷兰语中更普遍。就语法化而言,我们发现南非荷兰语死了- 和 CPV 结构,以及荷兰贝齐格- 和 CPV 结构在语义上受到限制。此外,只有南非荷兰语贝西格- 和每次观看费用zh-constructions 允许被动化,这对于这种外围表达方式来说是显着的。*
更新日期:2017-11-23
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