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The disappearance of Dutch GEZEGD WORDEN TE + Infinitive ('BE SAID TO V')

What is it about?

On the disappearance of the Dutch BE SAID TO construction in the course of the (long) 19th century.

Why is it important?

The paper introduces "constructional attrition" as an area of investigation in diachronic construction grammar. It is an expanded adaptation of Colleman & Noël (2009), Gezegd worden + te-infinitief: een verouderde evidentiële constructie. [Dutch gezegd worden (‘be said to’) + te-infinitive: an archaic evidential construction.] Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde [Journal for Dutch Language and Literature] 125, 4: 385-403. (downloadable from http://www.tntl.nl/index.php/tntl/article/view/96)

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Timothy Colleman and Dirk Noël
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