Code
3F021412
Duration
01 October 2012 → 30 September 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- Linguistics
- Theory and methodology of linguistics
- Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
German
syntax
semantics
German
20th Century
Contemporary
Quantitative
Surveys
Language and text analysis
Western Europe
Argument structure
Case system
Construction grammar
Corpus linguistics
Language variation
Syntax and semantics
Valency
Linguistics
Project description
Building on corpus-based analysis, this project explores the motivations behind the case alternation between accusative and dative in verbal constructions with two-way prepositions in present-day German from a constructionist perspective, considering both cases as parts of alternating constructions with semantic functions in their own right, and focusing on the interplay between the constructions and the semantic and morphosyntactic properties of the lexical items.