Modifying words: Dutch adverbial morphology in contrast ; "Modifying words": Niederländische Adverbialmorphologie im Vergleich

The topic of my dissertation is a domain of Dutch word formation which has so far been ignored in the morphological literature: the formation of complex adverbs through derivation. In overviews of Dutch word formation we usually find a list of suffixes for adverb formation: -(e)lijk, -(e)lings, -gewijs, -erwijs, -halve, -iter, -tjes, -waarts, -weg. These Dutch adverbial suffixes have only been treated very superficially which is in strong contrast with the genetically related German adverbial suffixes. Descriptions are usually restricted to the enumeration of a number of synchronic properties... Mehr ...