Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax
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Counting markedness : a corpus investigation on German free relative constructions
(2004)
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Ralf Vogel
Marco Zugck
- This paper reports the results of a corpus investigation on case conflicts in German argument free relative constructions. We investigate how corpus frequencies reflect the relative markedness of free relative and correlative constructions, the relative markedness of different case conflict configurations, and the relative markedness of different conflict resolution strategies. Section 1 introduces the conception of markedness as used in Optimality Theory. Section 2 introduces the facts about German free relative clauses, and section 3 presents the results of the corpus study. By and large, markedness and frequency go hand in hand. However, configurations at the highest end of the markedness scale rarely show up in corpus data, and for the configuration at the lowest end we found an unexpected outcome: the more marked structure is preferred.
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Dialectal variation in german 3-verb clusters : looking for the best analysis
(2004)
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Ralf Vogel
- German dialects vary in which of the possible orders of the verbs in a 3-verb cluster they allow. In a still ongoing empirical investigation that I am undertaking together with Tanja Schmid, University of Stuttgart (Schmid and Vogel (2004)) we already found that each of the six logically possible permutations of the 3-verb cluster in (1) can be found in German dialects.
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The resolution of case conflicts : a pilot study
(2004)
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Ralf Vogel
Stefan Frisch
- This paper reports the results of a pilot study on the resolution of case conflicts in German free relative constructions. Section 1 gives a brief introduction into the phenomenon, section 2 presents the experiment and its results, section 3 ends the paper with a brief more general discussion.
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Syntaktische Minimalformen: Grammatikalisierungen in einer medialen Nische
(2004)
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Beate Henn-Memmesheimer
