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 and the arts
- 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
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Contemporary
Middle Ages
Dutch
Comparative
Quantitative
Language and text analysis
Belgium
Central Europe
Western Europe
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.