Between VP Adjuncts and Second Pole in Dutch : A corpus based survey regarding the complements between VP adjuncts and second pole in Dutch

In Dutch, verbs are situated at fixed places in the sentence. Those places are called the first and second pole. VP adjuncts seem to function as some kind of pivot place in between these poles. This article investigates, by means of corpus research in the Spoken Dutch Corpus (CGN), which elements are intervening between these VP adjuncts and the second pole. Attention is particularly paid to the reasons and principles that make elements end up between VP adjuncts and second pole. First of all, these elements will often be syntactically and semantically linked to the main verb. Secondly, the fu... Mehr ...