Qualitative-Quantitative Analyses of Dutch and Afrikaans Grammar and Lexicon -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Plan of the book -- 1.2 Biographical remarks -- 1.3 How this book came to be -- 1.4 My particular role as an eternal student of Dutch as a foreign language -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- 2. The Dutch demonstrative adjectives: Analyses and reactions -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Analyses -- 2.2.1 Kirsner (1979a) -- 2.2.2 Kirsner and van Heuven (1980) -- 2.2.3 Kirsner (1985b) -- 2.2.4 Kirsner (1987) -- 2.2.5 Kirsner, van Heuven, and Vermeulen (1987) -- 2.2.6 Kirsner and van Heuven (1988) -- 2.2.7 Kirsner (1989) -- 2.2.8 Kirsner (1993) -- 2.2.9 Kirsner (1996b) -- 2.3 Reactions -- 2.3.1 Maes (1995) -- 2.3.2 Van Everbroeck (1999) -- 2.3.3 Ariel -- 2.3.4 Experimental approaches -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- 3. The Afrikaans demonstratives and instructional meanings -- 3.1 Introduction: On instructional meanings -- 3.2 The Afrikaans demonstratives: Forms and uses -- 3.3 The Deictic system -- 3.3.1 The hypothesis -- 3.3.2 One dié or two -- 3.3.3 How dié can communicate proximity without explicitly signaling it -- 3.3.4 More on the opposition between hierdie and dié -- 3.4 Quantitative data on the use of the demonstratives in discourse -- 3.5 Additional qualitative data -- 3.6 Alternative analyses -- 3.6.1 Peeling off prosody but retaining deixis -- 3.6.2 Peeling off prosody and rejecting deixis -- 3.6.3 Keeping prosody but splitting adjective and pronoun -- 3.7 Theoretical considerations and conclusions -- 3.8 Appendix. Some loose ends -- 3.8.1 On daai, the colloquial form of daardie -- 3.8.2 A note on proximity and definiteness -- 3.8.3 On sharpness of discrimination -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- 4. On imperatives and pragmatic particles -- 4.1 Introduction.

4.2 The utterance-final pragmatic particles hoor and hè -- 4.2.1 Observations -- 4.2.2 Analysis of the hè-hoor opposition -- 4.2.3 Subuses of hoor -- 4.3 The verb stem imperative (STM) versus the 'infinitivus pro imperativo' (IPI) -- 4.3.1 Observations -- 4.3.2 Towards an analysis of the STM-IPI opposition -- 4.3.3 Contrasts in gruffness and suddenness -- 4.4 Predicting the interaction of STM and IPI with hoor and hè -- 4.5 The questionnaire experiment -- 4.5.1 Design -- 4.5.2 Initial results -- 4.5.3 Further results: the unpredicted lack of parallelism between hoor and hè -- 4.5.4 Additional discussion -- 4.6 Quantitative data from texts -- 4.6.1 The prediction -- 4.6.2 The importance of negation -- 4.7 Some theoretical implications -- 4.7.1 Maximalist (bottom-up) linguistics versus minimalist (top-down) linguistics -- 4.7.2 Degrees of idiomaticity of collocations -- 4.7.3 A brief digression on lexicon. -- 4.7.4 Syntax versus semantics versus pragmatics -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- 5. What it takes to understand how one Dutch idiom works -- 5.1 The problem of expressions with final maar1 -- 5.1.1 The questionnaire -- 5.1.2 Predictions -- 5.1.3 Results -- 5.1.4 The anatomy of a wrong prediction -- 5.2 The mechanism underlying the idiomatic interpretation of ho maar11 -- 5.2.1 How idiomatic ho maar differs from its near paraphrases -- 5.2.2 The relation between the usual and the idiomatic uses of ho maar -- 5.2.3 Why does ho maar contain maar? -- 5.2.4 Innovations and non-occurrences -- 5.3 What do speakers know? -- 5.4 The problem of units. How many ho maar expressions are there? -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- 6. Further explorations -- 6.1 The "progressive" constructions aan het + Inf zijn and bezig zijn te + Inf1 -- 6.1.1 Analytical hypothesis -- 6.1.2 Earlier quantitative work -- 6.1.3 Additional text counts -- 6.1.4 Additional questionnaire work.

6.1.5 Concluding remarks -- 6.2 Bare and prepositional "indirect objects" with aan23 -- 6.2.1 Introduction -- 6.2.2 Empirical evidence for the grammaticality judgments -- 6.2.3 Inferences of successful transfer -- Notes to Chapter 6 -- 7. Afterword -- 7.1 Revisiting the studies -- 7.2 The contribution of quantification -- 7.3 Columbia School and Cognitive Grammar -- References and corpora -- Name index -- Subject index.