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Volume 24, Issue 2
  • ISSN 2211-6834
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Abstract

Abstract

This paper focuses on the variable use of partitive in two types of constructions. First, combined with cardinal numbers like ‘three’ and quantifiers like ‘enough’. Second, combined with an elliptical noun referring to and should be present in the first case ( ‘I have three’) but absent in the second case ( ‘He is eighty’), according to normative Dutch grammars.

The spontaneous spoken speech of 67 speakers born and raised in Heerlen, in the southeast of the Netherlands was analyzed, investigating the use of also according to social distribution: language background, education/occupation and age.

The results show that is used variably in the two types of constructions. It was found that younger speakers differ in some contexts from older speakers, suggesting that language change is going on, possibly under the influence of standard Dutch.

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