Conflicts in Interpretation - Petra Hendriks
Escape from stress: pronouns in Dutch
Conflicts in Interpretation - Petra Hendriks
Petra Hendriks [+]
University of Groningen
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Petra Hendriks is a Professor at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Her publications include Breinmakers & Breinbrekers (with Niels Taatgen and Tjeerd Andringa, 1997) and Optimal Communication (with Helen de Hoop and Reinhard Blutner, 2006).
Irene Kramer
Henriette de Swart [+]
University of Utrecht
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Prof. dr. Henriette de Swart is professor of French linguistics and semantics. She is also affiliated to the cognitive artificial intelligence program. Her research focuses on cross-linguistic semantics, especially in the area of nominals, tense and aspect, negation.
Description
This chapter investigates a well-known instantiation of variation of form in Dutch, viz. the occurrence of a direct object either to the right or to the left of a sentential adverb, generally captured under the term scrambling. The chapter shows that in general there are two structural positions available for direct objects in Dutch. The authors argue that an adequate analysis of the phenomenon requires the linkage of the two forms to different meanings for the objects under consideration.