German universal concessive conditionals with wh-clause-initial and wh-clause-medial markinghttps://doi.org/10.18710/FVA2YVVander Haegen, FlorDataverseNO2025-11-192026-07-06T08:40:19Z<p>These are the data analysed in Chapter 6 of Vander Haegen's dissertation entitled "Konstruktionsgrammatik und Variation. Eine Mikrotypologie universaler Irrelevanzgefüge im Gegenwartsdeutschen".</p> <p>The dataset includes an annotated sample of N = 3000 German written universal concessive conditionals (e.g. "Was immer auch passiert, ich bin für dich da!" 'Whatever happens, I will be there for you!') from the German Reference Corpus DeReKo. Concessive conditionals (CCs) can basically be defined as conditionals with quantification, as they express a (usually exhaustive) set of antecedent values in the protasis, instead of only one antecedent value as in prototypical conditionals. In universal concessive conditionals (UCCs), the antecedent set is evoked through a combination of a free-choice-expression (here: the complex particle "immer auch" '-ever') and a variable in the guise of a wh word (here: "was" 'what').</p> <p>German UCCs can either be marked wh-clause-medially (using the particles "auch" and/or "immer" as above – both mean '-ever') or wh-clause-initially (with an expression of irrelevance like "egal" 'no matter', "gleichgültig" 'no matter', "wurscht' 'no matter (lit.: sausage) etc.). The wh-clause-initial and -medial marking strategies are in near-complementary distribution.</p> <p>The dataset was compiled in the context of a doctoral dissertation project which sought to, inter alia, determine functional and formal differences (apart from the position and lexical specification of the free-choice marking) between wh-clause-initially and -medially marked UCCs in contemporary German. It comprises n = 1500 tokens of wh-clause-initially and n = 1500 tokens of wh-clause-medially marked UCCs. The data are annotated for over 20 formal and functional variables.</p> <p>The full dataset (including the corpus data) and a dataset including only ID numbers and annotations (to facilitate processing with statistical software) are shared in two separate .csv-files. An R Markdown file with the data analysis and an html file with the R code and output are shared as well.<p>Arts and HumanitiesGermanconditionalsnon-prototypical conditionalsconcessive conditionalsfree-choice quantificationalternationEnglishGermanVander Haegen, F. (2026). <i>Konstruktionsgrammatik und Variation. Eine Mikrotypologie universaler Irrelevanzgefüge im Gegenwartsdeutschen</i> [Doctoral dissertation]. Ghent University.2025-11-19Vander Haegen, Flor2025-11-131946-01-012018-12-312015-01-012024-12-31manually annotated corpus data<p>The dataset is a random sample from from two larger datasets, which are analysed in the following publications: <ul> <li>Bossuyt, Tom, Ludovic De Cuypere & Torsten Leuschner. 2018. Emergence Phenomena in German W-immer/auch-Subordinators. In Eric Fuß, Marek Konopka, Beata Trawiński & Ulrich H. Waßner (eds.), Grammar and Corpora 2016, 97–120. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing. <a href="http://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/heiup/catalog/book/361">http://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/heiup/catalog/book/361</a>. (30 September, 2018).</li> <li>Vander Haegen, Flor. 2023. Ein neues Mitglied der irrelevanzkonditionalen Konstruktionsfamilie: universale Irrelevanzkonditionale des Typs [IRR w-] im Gegenwartsdeutschen. In Fabio Mollica & Sören Stumpf (eds.), Konstruktionsfamilien im Deutschen (Konstruktionsgrammatik IX), 353–388. Tübingen: Stauffenburg. </li> </ul> <p>All data were extracted from the "W – Archiv der geschriebenen Sprache" from the German Reference Corpus DeReKo, which can be searched using the online concordancer <a href="https://cosmas2.ids-mannheim.de/cosmas2-web/">COSMAS II</a>.</p> <p>Insubstantial parts of this source are reused in this dataset under exceptions and limitations to intellectual property protection for databases in regulations, such as the <a href="https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2018-06-15-40">Norwegian Copyright Act</a> and the <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:01996L0009-20190606">EU Database Directive</a>.</p><p>The function "C.score.R" originates from the digital appendices of Gries (2021) and has been uploaded here with the author's permission.</p> <p> Gries, Stefan Th. 2021. Statistics for linguistics with R. A practical introduction. 3rd revised ed. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter.</p>GermanyAustriaSwitzerlandLuxembourgCC0 1.0