Relative productivity potentials of Dutch verbal inflection patterns

• Remco Knooihuizen ^[1] ; Oscar Strik ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Groningen

     University of Groningen

     Países Bajos

     
• Localización: Folia lingüística histórica, ISSN 0168-647X, Vol. 35, Nº 1, 2014, págs. 173-200
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Diachronic change regarding the Germanic verb shows a tendency away from strong and towards weak inflection, although the change is not unidirectional. Three production and acceptability experiments on nonce and existing verbs in Dutch unveil a clear hierarchy in potential productivity of inflection patterns. Weak inflection has the highest potential productivity; within strong inflection, Classes I, II and III outrank the others. Speakers also regularly employ a productoriented schema based on the vowels /o/ and /ɔ/, as well as, although to a lesser extent, on /i/ and /ɪ/. We relate these findings to synchronic factors and to diachronic change.