TY  - GEN
A1  - Bouma, Gerlof J.
A1  - Hendriks, Petra
T1  - Partial word order freezing in Dutch
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Dutch allows for variation as to whether the first position in the sentence is occupied by the subject or by some other constituent, such as the direct object. In particular situations, however, this commonly observed variation in word order is ‘frozen’ and only the subject appears in first position. We hypothesize that this partial freezing of word order in Dutch can be explained from the dependence of the speaker’s choice of word order on the hearer’s interpretation of this word order. A formal model of this interaction between the speaker’s perspective and the hearer’s perspective is presented in terms of bidirectional Optimality Theory. Empirical predictions of this model regarding the interaction between word order and definiteness are confirmed by a quantitative corpus study.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 625 
KW  - bidirectional optimality theory
KW  - corpus study
KW  - definiteness
KW  - variation
KW  - word order freezing
Y1  - 2020
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/43049
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-430496
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 625
ER  -