The use of zo’n versus zulke ‘such’ in Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch. Testing hypotheses relating to lexical biases, function, register and noun type.

peer reviewed ; Topic & objectives – This study investigates the use of the determiners zulke vs. zo’n ‘such’ in front of plural and uncountable singular nouns in European Dutch (Ghesquière and Van de Velde 2011; Van Olmen 2019). Countable singular nouns are not taken up because previous research indicates that zulke is exceedingly infrequent in that context (Van Olmen and van der Auwera 2014: 217). In addition, Van Olmen and van der Auwera (2014: 217) show that zo’n is generally more popular in Belgian Dutch than in Netherlandic Dutch. Three hypotheses are put to the test. The first predi... Mehr ...