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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

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Title: Finite Comment Clauses in Dutch: A Corpus-based Approach
Author: Carla Schelfhout
Institution: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Author: Peter-Arno Coppen
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Institution: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Author: Nelleke Oostdijk
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Institution: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Linguistic Field: Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language: Dutch
Abstract: The present paper presents the results of a corpus-based study of the form and distribution of finite comment clauses in Dutch. More specifically, it was investigated where in the sentence such clauses can occur. For the analysis of the data, a topological descriptive model was used. While in the literature an extraction analysis has been suggested in order to account for finite comment clauses in English and German, our findings lead us to challenge this type of analysis and argue that a parenthetical analysis is to be preferred.>Thanks are due to Antal van den Bosch and Hans van Halteren for their help in tagging the corpus, and to Toni Rietveld for his statistical advice.

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This article appears in Journal of Germanic Linguistics Vol. 16, Issue 4, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST .



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