1. Modal particle or emerging inflection?
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van der Wouden, Ton
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INFLECTION (Grammar) , *VERBS , *IMPERATIVE (Grammar) , *PRONOUNS (Grammar) , *MORPHOLOGY (Grammar) - Abstract
Dutch has a construction consisting of a verbal part and something else: ′wɛrksə 'enjoy your work' (< werk 'to work'), ′rujzə 'enjoy your rowing' (< roei 'to row'). According to accepted wisdom, this 'success imperative', as it is known in the literature, consists of an imperative and a pronoun ze 'them'. The paper challenges the standard analysis and investigates two alternatives: an imperative form plus a modal particle, and a verbal stem plus an inflectional ending. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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