The driving forces behind verbal cluster order variation from Early to Late Modern Dutch Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This paper investigates the effect of both structural and sociolinguistic variables on the development of the Dutch verbal cluster order variation. More precisely, the paper evaluates which specific set of these variables has the largest effect on the verb order variation from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. To this end, a corpus linguistic study with a random forest analysis was conducted, using the Historical Corpus of Dutch ...