Attitude Survey: Quotative "van" in Dutch

May 11, 2014 18:42

Hi everyone,

I'm an MA student in Linguistics doing a survey on attitudes towards the construction (zo)(iets) van in Dutch. A few studies have been done on this construction (syntax, pragmatics, development), but to my knowledge no one has looked at speakers' attitudes towards it. I'm looking for both L1 and L2 (in fact I'm especially interested ( Read more... )

prescriptivism, sociolinguistics, surveys/quizzes, dutch

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jannuh May 14 2014, 07:54:13 UTC
Filled it out. One note which I couldn't add to the survey: the construction is used when you speak Dutch, not when you write it. If a person uses these constructions when writing, I have a totally different opinion about them :)

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