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Volume 2, Issue 2
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Abstract

Abstract

In this paper a syntactic analysis of the Dutch diminutive form ‘one.’ is put forth. Within a syntactic approach to morphology, it is claimed that the form results from movement operations to license an empty noun. On the basis of data from the Corpus Spoken Dutch (Netherlandic and Belgian Dutch data) on the combination of and ‘one’ with or without the quantitative pronoun , it is argued that does not result from nominalization, as could be suggested by the diminutive form in -. It is proposed that differences between Netherlandic Dutch and Belgian Dutch with respect to the omission of the quantitative pronoun with and and higher numerals in the informal data point to a different analysis of in these two varieties.

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