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Constructional contamination blocking full-fledged alternation? (The lack of) word order variation in Dutch verb clusters with resultative krijgen ‘to get’
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- Constructional contamination blocking full-fledged alternation? (The lack of) word order variation in Dutch verb clusters with resultative krijgen ‘to get’
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Berlin [u.a.]: Mouton de Gruyter, 2025
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- Abstract: In Dutch verb clusters consisting of an auxiliary and a past participle, both orders of participle and auxiliary are fine. This distinguishes auxiliaries from copular verbs combined with an adjectival participle, for which only the [Part + V]-order is straightforwardly possible. Reference grammars claim that for the resultative krijgen-construction, the order krijgen ‘to get’ + participle is ungrammatical and that, thus, the construction is adjectival. In this paper we first show that the [Aux + Part]-order is actually used in resultative krijgen-clusters in real-language corpora, albeit infrequently so, and that, in grammaticality judgements, language users find it quite acceptable. More crucially, we present evidence that the order in resultative krijgen-clusters is affected by constructional contamination (Pijpops, Dirk & Freek Van de Velde. 2016. Constructional contamination: How does it work and how do we measure it? Folia Linguistica 50 (2). 543–581). On the one hand, other auxiliary constructions with krijgen contaminate the resultative construction, resulting in sporadic occurrences of [Aux + Part]-orders. On the other hand, we show that resultative infinitive clusters, which are historically very strongly attracted to the [Part + Aux]-order, occur significantly more often than with other auxiliary constructions and hence promote the [Part + Aux]-order in non-infinitive clusters, thus preventing a full-fledged alternation. In this way, usage tendencies explain the observed word order facts better than postulated grammatical properties such as the alleged “adjectival” status of resultative krijgen. Additionally, we show that constructional contamination does not only affect language production, but also acceptability judgements.
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- constructional contamination ; blocking ; Dutch ; construction grammar ; horizontal/similarity links
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