Abstract
AbstractDutch uses cardinal posture verbs (zitten‘to sit’,staan‘to stand’, andliggen‘to lie’) for all sorts of purposes, many of which have received considerable research attention – like the posture progressive, e.g.zitten te lezen‘lit. sit to read: to be reading’. This paper investigates a posture verb pattern in which a posture verb is combined with a past participle, e.g.zitten verstopt‘lit. sit hidden: to be hidden’. Previous analyses disagree on whether these patterns correspond to a fixed set of combinations, or to a productive schema with semantic restrictions. By examining over 6,000 attestations of the pattern, this paper evaluates these competing accounts, concluding that the data point strongly at productivity.
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