De verbale hendiadys als pseudocoördinatie.

This paper focuses on various aspects of the verbal hendiadys in Dutch dialects. The verbal hendiadys is a construction in which a finite verb of bodily posture combines with the coordinative element en 'and', followed by an infinitival verb. Data from the SAND project (Syntactische Atlas Nederlandse Dialecten) indicate that the construction is (still) available in at least four dialects spoken in the West Flemish and French Flemish areas. The first part of the paper is concerned with the morphological, syntactic and semantic properties of the construction. In the second part of the paper the syntactic structure of the construction is discussed. Despite the presence of the coordinative element en 'and', it is argued on the basis of several syntactic and semantic tests that the verbal hendiadys is not an instance of coordination. Rather than coordination, the tests suggest that the verbal hendiadys is an instance of subordination. The presence of a coordinative element in a subordinate structure is not surprising from a cross-linguistic point of view. In for instance Afrikaans and the Scandinavian languages, a coordinative element occurs in so-called pseudo-coordinate structures. It has been demonstrated that these constructions also involve subordination rather than coordination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]