De sterke werkwoorden in het Nederlands. Een diachroon, kwantitatief onderzoek. KU Leuven
The goal of this project is to trace the diachronic development of the preterite morphology in Dutch from the early Middle Ages up until present-day Dutch. The primary focus is on the competition between (1) the so-called strong inflection (e.g. vaar - voer ('sail')), which is based on root apophony (Ablaut), and has developed from the Proto-Indo-European perfect (Mailhammer 2007), (2) the so- called weak inflection (e.g. vaar - vaarde), which ...