Dutch compound constructions in additional language acquisition: a diasystematic-constructionist approach

Several studies have demonstrated that Dutch has a stronger tendency towards compounding than French (e.g. Du. badkamer vs Fr. salle de bains ‘bathroom’) (Van Goethem 2009; Van Goethem & Amiot 2019), especially when adopting a restrictive approach of compounding in which the presence of prepositions and/or internal inflection in multi-word expressions is considered evidence for their syntactic formation (Fradin 2009). The example above illustrates that Dutch compounding differs from French in another important aspect: while Germanic compounding is by definition right-headed, French has... Mehr ...