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Volume 36, Issue 1
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Abstract

Abstract

Dutch uses cardinal posture verbs ( ‘to sit’, ‘to stand’, and ‘to lie’) for all sorts of purposes, many of which have received considerable research attention – like the posture progressive, e.g. ‘lit. sit to read: to be reading’. This paper investigates a posture verb pattern in which a posture verb is combined with a past participle, e.g. ‘lit. sit hidden: to be hidden’. Previous analyses disagree on whether these patterns correspond to a fixed set of combinations, or to a productive schema with semantic restrictions. By examining over 6,000 attestations of the pattern, this paper evaluates these competing accounts, concluding that the data point strongly at productivity.

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