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In some recent literature on the accentuation of derived English and Dutch words the nature of the boundaries immediately preceding the suffixes and immediately following the prefixes plays a prominent part. Such an approach, however, leads to as yet unsolved problems. For this reason we propose below an alternative account for Dutch: all affixes are surrounded by + (formative) boundaries, and accentuation of derived words is described rather in terms of wordclasses. Synthetic compounds provide additional evidence for these hypotheses.
The basic thoughts for this paper were developed during my stay at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (N.I.A.S.) at Wassenaar in the course of the academic year 1975–6. The final version was completed in December 1976, in particular, before the appearance of G.E. Booij’s thesis Dutch Morphology. A study of word formation in generative grammar (Foris Publications, Dordrecht, 1977). I have profited highly from comments on earlier versions by R.P. Botha, H. Gilijamse, M.A.C. Huybregts, and W. Zonneveld
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Schultink, H. (1980). Boundaries, Wordclasses, and the Accentuation of Derived Words in Dutch. In: Geerts, G., et al. Dutch Studies. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8855-2_10
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