10.18710/NL8UQC
Beland, Nikolai0000-0003-4515-9421(University of Bamberg)
The superlative alternation in present-day English: Questionnaire data
DataverseNO
2021
doi:10.18710/NL8UQC/HFAUL4doi:10.18710/NL8UQC/AUMLF6doi:10.18710/NL8UQC/UF619T
This dataset contains elicitation data collected through a questionnaire on superlative strategy choice in English (X-est vs. most X). Native speakers (n = 675) were asked to indicate their preferred superlative variants of the adjectives used in n = 120 systematically manipulated prompt sentences. The data enable us to quantify the effects of seven contextual constraints and four speaker variables on the superlative alternation.
Beland, Nikolai(University of Bamberg)University of Bamberg