Constructional contamination effects. Evidence from mixed-effects logistic regression modeling of the Dutch partitive genitive

peer reviewed ; Deflection has been rampaging in the history of Dutch, but in this long-term process, the genitive proves to be remarkably resilient. One of the tenacious relics is the partitive genitive of the type ‘iets moois’ (‘something beautiful’). The construction has drawn a lot of scholarly attention (Schultink 1962: 79-80; Kester 1996: 199-224; Broekhuis Strang 1996; Hoeksema 1998; Booij 2010: 223-228; Broekhuis 2013: 420-426), but these accounts are mostly based on limited amounts of data, often gathered through introspection, yielding an oversimplifying description of the ins and ou... Mehr ...