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This paper focuses on the Dutch om-altemation, i.e. the variation between infinitival complements ( IC) with arid without the prepositional complementizer om, as demonstrated in Hij beloofde om op tijd ie komen vs. Hij beloofde op lijd te komen ('He promised to be on time'). The choice between one of the two alternating constructions is not random as it depends on ditterent syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors. We test the effects of a series of potential factors culled from the literature through u multifactorial corpus investigation on the basis of real-language examples from the Dutch Parallel Corpus, with special attention for register effects the possible influence of register on this alternation has not been addressed before. This attention for register can be related to the emerging Cognitive Sociolingtiistiesmovcmcm, which has led to a new nr renewed attention for the possible influence of all kinds oflecial factors on syntactic alternation phenomena. The analysis will reveal that both register and complexity-related factors play a significant role in the choice between the two alternants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A typical characteristic of Dutch (and other Continental West Germanic languages such as German and Frisian) is that verbs (both finite and infinite) appear together at the end of the subordinate clause in a so-called verb cluster. The ordering of the verbs within these verb clusters is not fixed in most historical stages of the Dutch language. This article studies the variable placement within verb clusters consisting of two verbs using a text corpus spanning most of the written history of the Dutch language (i.e. from 1250 until 2000). The verb order of more than six thousand verb clusters is described in the study, taking into account factors such as period, region and type of verb cluster. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper investigates one of the most intricate types of syntactic variation in Dutch, viz. the order of the participle and the auxiliary verb in Dutch bipartite clause final verb clusters. Despite the massive attention this type of variation has received in earlier research, two fundamental issues remain unresolved: (i) which set of linguistic variables determine native speakers' choices for participle-first or auxiliary-first word order, and how do these variables relate to each other (e.g., which variable has the greatest impact?); (ii) what is the cognitive-functional difference between both word order variants? The present study aims at clarifying these issues by conducting a multivariate corpus analysis of 10 languageinternal (prosodic, morphosyntactic, semantic, discursive) variables. Building on a data set of 2390 corpus instances, all extracted from the Belgian high-quality newspaper De Standaard (part of the CONDIV corpus), the analysis reveals that the kind of word order variation at hand can be adequately described, explained and predicted on the basis of 8 variables, with the variable 'nature of the auxiliary verb' as the most determining one. On the basis of these results, it is argued that the syntactic alternation is (at least partially) motivated by cognitive mechanisms. More specifically, it is hypothesised that the participle-first word order is the basic word order on which language users fall back in circumstances of heavy processing demands, whereas participle-final word order is considered a sociostylistic option that can be chosen in circumstances where processing is relatively easy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports on a corpus-based in-depth analysis of the impact of region and register on the choice of word order in Dutch clause-final verb clusters consisting of an auxiliary verb (AUX) and a past participle (PART). The study verifies the main traditional hypotheses, and completes and refines the picture sketched in previous studies by cross-analysing written and spoken language in different communicative situations (register) in Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch (region). Confirmed by several statistical techniques for bivariate and conditional analyses, the results reveal that language users in the Belgian part of the Dutch language area use word order [PART+AUX] more frequently than Netherlandic Dutch language users, and that word order choice is determined by the mode of language production, the degree of interaction and the type of editorial control. The present study, however, does not only aim at a purely linguistic contribution to the field of word order variation in Dutch clause-final verb clusters, but also demonstrates the advantages of a quantitative corpus-based methodology, and the statistical testing of hypotheses in variation linguistics, so that the present study may also be of interest for those researchers working in other areas of linguistic variation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]