Abstract
Dutch has no construction corresponding to our ‘of it’, ‘for it’, ‘on it’, etc.; ‘van het’, ‘voor het’ are not possible.* Instead, the word er is placed before the preposition in question.
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© 1958 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Shetter, W.Z. (1958). The word ER. prepositional compounds. In: Introduction to Dutch. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9222-4_23
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