Replication data for: Constructions are not predictable but are motivated: evidence from the Spanish completive reflexive (doi:10.18710/4QHOBK)

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Citation

Title:

Replication data for: Constructions are not predictable but are motivated: evidence from the Spanish completive reflexive

Identification Number:

doi:10.18710/4QHOBK

Distributor:

DataverseNO

Date of Distribution:

2018-11-13

Version:

2

Bibliographic Citation:

Lewandowski, Wojciech, 2018, "Replication data for: Constructions are not predictable but are motivated: evidence from the Spanish completive reflexive", https://doi.org/10.18710/4QHOBK, DataverseNO, V2, UNF:6:tokJXAhE3MEy0uanXSF5aQ== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication data for: Constructions are not predictable but are motivated: evidence from the Spanish completive reflexive

Identification Number:

doi:10.18710/4QHOBK

Authoring Entity:

Lewandowski, Wojciech (University of Zaragoza)

Producer:

University of Copenhagen

Grant Number:

H2020-MSCA-IF-2014-658596

Distributor:

DataverseNO

Distributor:

The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing)

Access Authority:

Lewandowski, Wojciech

Depositor:

Lewandowski, Wojciech

Date of Deposit:

2018-10-17

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.18710/4QHOBK

Study Scope

Keywords:

Arts and Humanities, Spanish, construction grammar, completives, reflexives

Abstract:

<p>Many researchers seem to think that construction grammar posits the existence of just wholly idiosyncratic constructions or form-meaning pairings. However, this idea demonstrates a deep misunderstanding of the approach, since constructions rarely emerge sui generis. Rather, construction grammar aims to balance the fact that some linguistic uses cannot be fully predicted from other well-established uses, with the fact that extensions of a construction, while not predictable, are motivated by other senses in the constructional network. This study illustrates this tenet of constructional approaches to language by providing an analysis of the Spanish completive reflexive marker se.</p> <p>In order to identify the different senses of the completive se-construction I used data from the Spanish corpus CREA (Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual, http://corpus.rae.es/creanet.html). Given the large size of the corpus (200 million words), the frequency search—which is merely indicative—was arbitrarily limited to constructions in which the verb appeared in 3rd person singular and was directly followed by a direct object headed by the determined articles el ‘the’ (masculine) or la ‘the’ (feminine) in singular.</p> <p>The data set includes all the instances of the completive reflexive found in the sample described above.</p>

Date of Collection:

2018-02-01-2018-02-15

Country:

Spain

Kind of Data:

Corpus data

Methodology and Processing

Sources Statement

Data Sources:

Real Academia Española - Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual (CREA) <a href="http://corpus.rae.es/creanet.html">http://corpus.rae.es/creanet.html</a>

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Citation

Title:

Lewandowski, Wojciech. "Constructions are not predictable but are motivated: evidence from the Spanish completive reflexive" Linguistics, vol. 59, no. 1, 2021, pp. 35-74. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0264

Identification Number:

10.1515/ling-2020-0264

Bibliographic Citation:

Lewandowski, Wojciech. "Constructions are not predictable but are motivated: evidence from the Spanish completive reflexive" Linguistics, vol. 59, no. 1, 2021, pp. 35-74. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0264

File Description--f5558

File: 02-SE-database.tab

  • Number of cases: 2744

  • No. of variables per record: 3

  • Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

Notes:

UNF:6:tokJXAhE3MEy0uanXSF5aQ==

Variable Description

List of Variables:

Variables

VERB

f5558 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:6:SqvMLhN9LJkqj+h8Tgtclw==

QUERY

f5558 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:6:VctWCcv18nEWwUVu17YjnA==

UTTERANCE

f5558 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:6:0NU3uuXEpJW6c0mSffOhPQ==

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

01-ReadMeSpanishCompletiveReflexive.txt

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Description of the dataset

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Other Study-Related Materials

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02-SE-database.txt

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The dataset itself

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