The boundary between composed and derived verbs revisited: Dutch preverbs on a cline of grammaticalization

In Dutch, the distinction between composed and derived verbs is traditionally based on the separability of the verb and the positional and phonological characteristics this implies: separable verbs are considered to be composed verbs or to illustrate an intermediate category between composed verbs and syntactic groups, while the class of derived verbs only contains inseparable verbs. However, if we situate composition and derivation on a cline of grammaticalization and if we study the behaviour of Dutch preverbs according to morpho-syntactic and semantic grammaticalization parameters, we notic... Mehr ...