Intermediate Syntactic Variants in a Dialect-Standard Speech Repertoire and Relative Acceptability

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Abstract This chapter proposes that acceptability judgments do not offer a direct window into an individual's competence. It discusses an intermediate speech repertoire that exists in the province of Limburg, the Netherlands. In this repertoire, some constructions are difficult to obtain. It also talks about acceptability judgments that are given by local dialect speakers in the same area. Using data from reflexive impersonal passives, reflexive ergatives, and inalienable possession constructions, the chapter argues that the occurrence of intermediate variants and the variation at the level of the individual speaker is not because of the specific task-effects, but is due to the induced language contact effects between the standard variety and the local dialects.

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