Particle research meets corpus linguistics: on the collocational behavior of particles

Modal particles may show strong tendencies to cluster. In this paper, we investigate the possibilities of giving a sound, quantitative, corpus-based foundation for this generalization. We discuss some standard techniques from collocation research and apply them to Dutch particles of various types. We moreover show that the methodologies deployed can help us find other collocational properties of particles.

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