I’m queen of the world! ; (Semi-)fixed English expressions and constructions in Dutch

Abstract This paper analyses English multi-word insertions found in a Dutch corpus of naturally occurring spoken conversation. Specifically, the corpus is based on manual morphophonological transcriptions of three seasons of the reality TV show Expeditie Robinson (known as ‘Survivor’ in the English-speaking world) and contains 10,000 utterances produced by 52 Belgian Dutch and Netherlandic Dutch speakers. Our analysis zooms in on all English insertions found in the data that contain more than one word, such as alive and kicking and you’re almost there (300 instances for 187 types). Three diffe... Mehr ...