Lêzing Fenna Bergsma oer Fryske ynfinitiven

Taalkundich ûndersiker Fenna Bergsma fan de Fryske Akademy jout in lêzing by de Universiteit Utrecht oer ferskillende ynfinitiven yn de Fryske taal:

‘Frisian has two morphologically distinct infinitives: one ending in -e (pronounced as [ə]) and one ending in -en (pronounced as [n]). It has been argued (cf. Visser 1989, Hoekstra 1997, Bergstra 2020) that they follow the noun-verb distinction and that infinitives on -e are verbal infinitives and infinitives on -en are nominal infinitives. In this talk, I show that not all infinitives on -en behave as expected from this description, and I conclude a description with two types of infinitives does not fully capture the distribution of the infinitives. I compare the different infinitives in Frisian to the different infinitives in English, and I show that their distributions largely overlap. I briefly work towards an analysis and show predictions that follow from this.’

De lêzing is op tongersdei 22 maaie 2025 fan 16.00 oant 17.00 oere by de Universiteit Utrecht (Drift 10, keamer K.05), mar ek by te wenjen fia Teams. De lêzing is foar elk tagonklik. Wol is it needsaaklik om jo op te jaan fia de webside fan Universiteit Utrecht.