Replication data for: Death of a construction: Old Church Slavonic touch verbsdoi:10.18710/8E0X4RDataverseNO2015-03-301Eckhoff, Hanne Martine, 2015, "Replication data for: Death of a construction: Old Church Slavonic touch verbs", https://doi.org/10.18710/8E0X4R, DataverseNO, V1Replication data for: Death of a construction: Old Church Slavonic touch verbsdoi:10.18710/8E0X4REckhoff, Hanne MartineUiT The Arctic University of Norway2015DataverseNOThe Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing)Eckhoff, Hanne Martine2015-02-242015Arts and HumanitiesOld Church Slavonicargument structuresyntactic productivityField: SemanticsTopic: caseTopic: verbsTopic: adpositionsTime-depth: diachronicTime-depth: synchronicData set for a study of the locative argument structure construction in Old Church Slavonic. In this article I examine an argument structure construction on its deathbed, namely, the Old Church Slavonic (OCS) bare locative argument construction. Why does the construction even exist when the pattern it instantiates is otherwise dead? What happens to the verbs involved, and which argument structure constructions take over? I take a usage-based approach to syntactic productivity to examine what happens in such cases. In many ways, this approach can account for the observed development. The final stronghold of the locative construction was a small group of highly semantically coherent verbs. When the construction was lost, the verbs joined other argument constructions, preferably constructions that were also highly semantically coherent, but not necessarily very type frequent. However, syntactic productivity alone cannot explain the patterns of attraction: we must also look at the semantic and formal fit.NorgecorpusEckhoff, H. M.. 2015. Death of a construction: Old Church Slavonic touch verbs. In: Eckhoff, H. M., & Rosén, T. (Eds.). (2015). Knigamŭ bo jest’ neiščetnaja glubina : Essays in Honour of Irina Lysén. pp. 24-45. Avaialble at https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-264959urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-264959Eckhoff, H. M.. 2015. Death of a construction: Old Church Slavonic touch verbs. In: Eckhoff, H. M., & Rosén, T. (Eds.). (2015). Knigamŭ bo jest’ neiščetnaja glubina : Essays in Honour of Irina Lysén. pp. 24-45. Avaialble at https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-264959file_description.txtDescription of columns and value sets in frames_chu.csvtext/plain; charset=UTF-8frames_chu.csvFull data set for the study. For a further description, see file_description.txttext/plain; charset=US-ASCIItaglist.txtList of verbal classes in the PROIEL/TOROT treebanks, with all Greek lemmata assigned to each class.text/plain; charset=UTF-8To read the Church Slavonic transcriptions.pdfInformation on how to display the Church Slavonic transcriptions correctlyapplication/pdftouch.rR script for analysis of the data set.text/plain; charset=UTF-8