Going city: Directional predicates and preposition incorporation in youth 
vernaculars of Dutch

Schoenmakers, Gert-Jan; Storment, John David

doi:10.1075/avt.00050.sch

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Going city: Directional predicates and preposition incorporation in youth vernaculars of Dutch

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Schoenmakers, Gert-Jan
Center for Language Studies, External Organizations;
International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Schoenmakers, G.-J., & Storment, J. D. (2021). Going city: Directional predicates and preposition incorporation in youth vernaculars of Dutch. Linguistics in the Netherlands, 38(1), 65-80. doi:10.1075/avt.00050.sch.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000A-0430-B

Abstract

In certain varieties of Dutch spoken among young people, the preposition and determiner in locative and directional PPs can sometimes be omitted. We argue on the basis of language data taken from Twitter and intuitions of young speakers of Dutch that nominal arguments in these constructions do not have a DP layer, the absence of which leads to a special interpretation. The option to omit the preposition is related to the structural and semantic complexity of the verb. The bare construction is possible only with simple verbs, and not with manner-of-motion verbs. We present an analysis that accounts for the non-pronunciation of prepositions in directional predicates by claiming that they can be licensed through incorporation into the verb. This type of incorporation is blocked if the verb is structurally complex.