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24.5. Bibliographical notes
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Complementation of adjectives seems to be a neglected topic in the field of Dutch syntax. Grammars like Paardekooper (1986), Haeseryn et al. (1997) and Klooster (2001) have relatively little to say about it; their focus is mainly on modification and the degrees of comparison (which are discussed here in Chapter 25 and Chapter 26, respectively). The theoretical literature also pays relatively little attention to this topic, with the notable exception of Van Riemsdijk (1983), which discusses nominal complementation within the adjective phrase (which, of course, is not completely ignored by the grammars mentioned above). Other important studies are Bennis (2004) and Cinque (1990), which argue that certain adjectives are similar to unaccusative verbs in that they can be predicated of an internal argument. Corver (1997b) has been a rich source of inspiration for the discussion of pseudo-participles and the pronominalization of the adjective (phrase). For a brief comparison between Dutch and Afrikaans with respect to the four main topics discussed in this chapter, see Kotzé (2016) and Kotzé & Terblanche (2020).

References

  • Bennis, Hans. 2004. Unergative adjectives and psych verbs. In The unaccusativity puzzle: studies on the syntax-lexicon interface, eds. Artemis Alexiadou et al., 84-113. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Cinque, Guglielmo. 1990. Ergative adjectives and the lexicalist hypothesis. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 8: 1-39.
  • Corver, Norbert. 1997b. The internal syntax of the Dutch extended adjectival projection. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 15: 289-368.
  • Corver, Norbert. 2018. The freezing points of the (Dutch) adjectival system. In Freezing: theoretical spproaches and empirical domains, eds. Jutta M. Hartmann et al., 143-194. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.
  • Den Besten, Hans & Gert Webelhuth. 1990. Stranding. In Scrambling and barriers, eds. Günther Grewendorf and Wolfgang Sternefeld, 77-92. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
  • Haegeman, Liliane. 1995. The syntax of negation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Haeseryn, Walter et al. 1997. Algemene Nederlandse spraakkunst, 2nd, revised edition. Groningen: Nijhoff.
  • Klooster, Wim. 2001. Grammatica van het hedendaags Nederlands. Een volledig overzicht. Den Haag: SDU Uitgeverij.
  • Kotzé, Ernst. 2016. Aspects of congruence and divergence relating to adjectives in Dutch and Afrikaans - A discussion of certain descriptive categories on the basis of Broekhuis’ Syntax of Dutch. Nederlandse Taalkunde/Dutch Linguistics 21: 215-227.
  • Kotzé, Ernst & Lize Terblanche. 2020. Complementation of APs. In Taalportaal. www.taalportaal.org/taalportaal/topic/pid/topic-14604453883653062 (accessed June 29, 2023).
  • Neeleman, Ad. 1994b. Complex predicates. Utrecht University: PhD thesis.
  • Paardekooper, P.C. 1986. Beknopte ABN-syntaksis, 7th, revised edition. Eindhoven: P.C. Paardekooper.
  • Van Riemsdijk, Henk. 1983. The case of the German adjectives. In Linguistic Categories: auxiliaries and related puzzles, Vol. 1, eds. Frank Heny and B. Richards, 223-252. Dordrecht: Reidel.
  • Vikner, Sten. 1994. Scandinavian object shift and West Germanic scrambling. In Studies on scrambling. Movement and non-movement approaches to free word-order phenomena, eds. Norbert Corver and Henk van Riemsdijk, 487-517. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Vikner, Sten. 2006. Object shift. In The Blackwell companion to syntax, Volume III, eds. Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk, 392-436. Malden, MA/Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
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