Code
01CD4223
Duration
01 January 2024 → 30 April 2024
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- German language
- Other European languages
- Contrastive linguistics
- Synchronic linguistics
- Syntax
Keywords
noncanonical case marking
productivity
corpus linguistics
subjecthood
Construction Grammar
word order
Project description
This study investigates the productivity of the alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat construction in German and Icelandic. Through both a corpus study and a number of psycholinguistic experiments, we show that the verbs in question alternate between two case frames, and hence that subjecthood is constructionally determined. Preliminary (corpus) results for both languages individually show that such is indeed the case.