This thesis is about the placement of definite objects relative to adverbials in the
Dutch middle-field. Direct objects can surface on either side of an adverbial, or in
between two adverbials, as demonstrated by Vanden Wyngaerd’s (1989) example
in (1) with the definite object de directeur ‘the manager’
Author(s): Gert-Jan Schoenmakers
Series: LOT (617)
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT)
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 221+viii
City: Amsterdam
Introduction
Scrambling in the Dutch middle-field
Adverbial hurdles in Dutch scrambling
Freedom in the Dutch middle-field
Contributing to the discussion
Adverbial hurdles in Dutch scrambling
Introduction
Empirical approaches to Dutch scrambling
Experiments
Experiment set 1: Structural position
Experiment set 2: Scope sensitivity
General Discussion
Conclusion
Scrambling, focus sensitivity, and discourse restructuring
Introduction
Theoretical background
Experiments
A fill-in-the-blanks experiment
A speeded judgment experiment
Discourse relations in Dutch scrambling
Conclusion
Topicality and anaphoricity: A sentence completion study
Introduction
Theoretical background
Terminology
Neeleman and Reinhart
Schaeffer
Erteschik-Shir
De Hoop
Van Bergen and de Swart
Predictions
A sentence completion experiment
Participants
Materials
Procedure
Analysis
Results
Anaphoric topics and (non-)anaphoric foci
Permanently available topics
General discussion
Conclusion
Linguistic judgments in 3D
Introduction
Judgment data and task instructions
The reliability of judgment data
Linguistic judgments in 3D
The influence of task instructions
Scrambling in the Dutch middle-field
A sentence judgment experiment
Participants
Materials
Procedure
Results
Discussion
General discussion
Conclusion
OV/VO variation and scrambling in historical Dutch
Introduction
Variation in Dutch object placement
OV/VO variation in historical Dutch
Scrambling in Present-day Dutch
Relating OV/VO variation and scrambling
A corpus study of historical Dutch
Results
Information structure and OV/VO variation
Information structure and scrambling
Discussion
An analysis of Dutch object placement
An anti-symmetric account of object placement
Shifting the border between information domains
Conclusion
General discussion
A summary of the empirical results
Chapters 2 and 3
Chapters 4 and 5
Chapter 6
What we can learn from these results
Discussion about certain adverbial hurdles
Capturing and handling wild scrambling
References
Appendices
Appendix to Chapter 2
Stimulus material for Experiment 1A
Stimulus material for Experiment 1B
Stimulus material for Experiment 2A and 2B
Appendix to Chapter 3
Appendix to Chapter 4
Topics and foci
Permanently available topics
Appendix to Chapter 5
Grammatical taboo item set
Scrambling item set
Appendix to Chapter 6
Nederlandse samenvatting (summary in Dutch)
Variatie in de volgorde van woorden
Bijwoordelijke barrières
Vrijheid in het Nederlandse middelveld
De opkomst van scrambling in het Nederlands
Convergerende evidentie: Theorie én empirie
Dankwoord (acknowledgments)
Data management
Data storage during research
Reuse of research data
Curriculum vitae
List of publications
