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T1 - A diachronic corpus study of prenominal "zo'n" 'so a' in Dutch
T2 - Pathways and (inter)subjectification
AU - Van Olmen, Daniel
N1 - This article has been accepted for publication in Functions of Language, Volume 26, Issue 2, 2019, pages: 217–248, © 2019 John Benjamins, the publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use the material in any form.
PY - 2019/8/2
Y1 - 2019/8/2
N2 - Like its English counterpart such, Dutch zo’n has identifying and intensifying uses. The established pathway from the former to the latter is found to constitute a proportional rather than a discrete shift here. The strong presence of intensifying uses from the start, as compared to the older Dutch marker zulk, is argued to be due to preexisting constructions that are alike formally and convey intensification. Zo’n is also found to have a recognitional and an approximating use. The case is made that the former has evolved out of the identifying use and that the latter is a development which is independent from the other uses functionally but has modeled itself on them formally. Finally, it is argued that the semantic shift from identification to intensification is best captured by the well-known pathway from textual to expressive, although the unidirectionality of this cline is uncertain, and that the change from identification to recognition supports a recent proposal to distinguish immediate and extended intersubjectivity.
AB - Like its English counterpart such, Dutch zo’n has identifying and intensifying uses. The established pathway from the former to the latter is found to constitute a proportional rather than a discrete shift here. The strong presence of intensifying uses from the start, as compared to the older Dutch marker zulk, is argued to be due to preexisting constructions that are alike formally and convey intensification. Zo’n is also found to have a recognitional and an approximating use. The case is made that the former has evolved out of the identifying use and that the latter is a development which is independent from the other uses functionally but has modeled itself on them formally. Finally, it is argued that the semantic shift from identification to intensification is best captured by the well-known pathway from textual to expressive, although the unidirectionality of this cline is uncertain, and that the change from identification to recognition supports a recent proposal to distinguish immediate and extended intersubjectivity.
U2 - 10.1075/fol.16017.van
DO - 10.1075/fol.16017.van
M3 - Journal article
VL - 26
SP - 216
EP - 247
JO - Functions of Language
JF - Functions of Language
SN - 0929-998X
IS - 2
ER -