Dutch compound constructions in additional language acquisition
Isa Hendrikx,
Kristel Van Goethem
Abstract:Studies have demonstrated that Dutch has a much stronger tendency towards compounding than French (e.g., Du.
badkamer vs Fr. salle de bains ‘bathroom’) when adopting a restrictive approach of
compounding in which the presence of prepositions and/or internal inflection in multi-word expressions is considered evidence for
their syntactic formation. The example above illustrates that Dutch compounding differs from French in another important aspect:
while Germanic compounding is by definition… Show more
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