Code
01N02116
Duration
01 January 2016 → 31 July 2021
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Language studies
- Linguistics
- Literary studies
- Theory and methodology of linguistics
- Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
non-canonically case-marked subjects
constructional semantics
Germanic vernaculars
computational methods
historical-comparative linguistics
Project description
This project aims to investigate the development of non-canonical case marking of subjects/subject-likes, throughout the history of the Germanic languages, contributing data from Germanic vernaculars. Lexical semantic verb classes will be compared, using computational phylogenetic methods, to reveal fluctuations in the construction’s historical productivity, hence providing basis for computational modeling of the prehistory of noncanonically case-marked subjects in Proto-Germanic.