Sera De Vriendt & Piet van Sterkenburg: The Syntactic Aspects of the Dutch Curse ‘godverdomme’

 

From a syntactic point of view there appear to be two types of swearwords, the shit-type and the verdomme-type. The latter is characterized by the fact that it can be inserted within sentences.

We intend to discuss:

  1. restrictions on sentence types
  2. possible positions of the swearword
  3. the categorization of the swearword: interjection, particle, evaluating constituent?