Inflectional variation in Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch: A usage-based account of the adjectival inflection

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Table of contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Europe's sociolinguistic unity, or: A typology of European dialect/standard constellations 7
5. From phonetic similarity to dialect classification: A principled approach 43
6. Inflectional variation in Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch: A usage-based account of the adjectival inflection 93
7. Interdialectal convergence between West-Flemish urban dialects 111
8. Substitutions in epistolary forms of address in the seventeenth century Dutch standard variety 129
9. LOVE in words: Experience and conceptualization in the modern English lexicon of LOVE 143
10. On the role of semasiological profiles in merger discontinuations 177
11. The ANGER IS HEAT question : Detecting cultural influence on the conceptualization of ANGER through diachronic corpus analysis. 195
12. Development and motivation of marked plural forms in German 209
13. Not arbitrary, not regular: The magic of gender assignment 235
14. Future time reference: English and Dutch compared 251
15. Cleft constructions in French and Spanish 275
16. How to express indifference in Germanic: Towards a functional-typological research programme 291
17. The lexicalization of speech act evaluations in German, English and Dutch 319
18. Index 337