marco@work - Variation between the infinitival complementizers om/voor in spontaneous speech

Variation between the infinitival complementizers om/voor in spontaneous speech data compared to elicitation data door Leonie Cornips maakt deel uit van de online publicatie Syntactic Microvariation.

"...investigates the variation between om and voor as two variants of the infinitival complementizer in Heerlen Dutch, a regional Dutch variety.
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This similar syntactic distribution of om and voor suggest that they are only lexical variants. However, the sociolinguistic and quantitative part of this study reveals that if both om and voor are simultaneously available at the individual level, an infinitival non-purpose clause promotes the variant om and an infinitival purpose clause promotes the variant voor."