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German universal concessive conditionals with wh-clause-initial and wh-clause-medial marking |
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doi:10.18710/FVA2YV |
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DataverseNO |
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Date of Distribution: |
2025-11-19 |
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Vander Haegen, Flor, 2025, "German universal concessive conditionals with wh-clause-initial and wh-clause-medial marking", https://doi.org/10.18710/FVA2YV, DataverseNO, V1 |
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German universal concessive conditionals with wh-clause-initial and wh-clause-medial marking |
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Identification Number: |
doi:10.18710/FVA2YV |
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Authoring Entity: |
Vander Haegen, Flor (https://ror.org/00cv9y106) |
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Producer: |
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen |
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Ghent University |
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COSMAS II web |
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Microsoft Excel for Mac |
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R (aarch64-apple-darwin20) |
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R Studio |
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1197324N |
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Distributor: |
DataverseNO |
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The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing) |
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Access Authority: |
Vander Haegen, Flor |
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Access Authority: |
TROLLing team |
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Depositor: |
Vander Haegen, Flor |
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Date of Deposit: |
2025-11-13 |
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Holdings Information: |
https://doi.org/10.18710/FVA2YV |
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Keywords: |
Arts and Humanities, German, conditionals, non-prototypical conditionals, concessive conditionals, free-choice quantification, alternation |
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<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> |
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1946-01-01-2018-12-31 |
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Date of Collection: |
2015-01-01-2024-12-31 |
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Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg |
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Kind of Data: |
manually annotated corpus data |
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<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> |
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<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> |
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The data source is publicly available after logging in on <a href="https://cosmas2.ids-mannheim.de/cosmas2-web/">https://cosmas2.ids-mannheim.de/cosmas2-web/</a> or <a href="https://korap.ids-mannheim.de/">https://korap.ids-mannheim.de/</a>. |
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<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a> |
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Citation |
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Title: |
Vander Haegen, F. (2026). <i>Konstruktionsgrammatik und Variation. Eine Mikrotypologie universaler Irrelevanzgefüge im Gegenwartsdeutschen</i> [Doctoral dissertation]. Ghent University. |
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Bibliographic Citation: |
Vander Haegen, F. (2026). <i>Konstruktionsgrammatik und Variation. Eine Mikrotypologie universaler Irrelevanzgefüge im Gegenwartsdeutschen</i> [Doctoral dissertation]. Ghent University. |
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00_Readme_GermanUCCs.txt |
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text/plain |
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01_GermanUCCs_complete_dataset.csv |
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text/comma-separated-values |
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02_GermanUCCs_annotations_only.csv |
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text/comma-separated-values |
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03_GermanUCCs_code.Rmd |
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text/x-r-notebook |
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04_GermanUCCs_code_and_output.html |
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text/html |
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C.score.R |
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type/x-r-syntax |
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cramersV.R |
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type/x-r-syntax |
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odds.ratio.R |
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type/x-r-syntax |