Counting markedness : a corpus investigation on German free relative constructions
This paper reports the results of a corpus investigation on case conflicts in German argument free relative constructions. We investigate how corpus frequencies reflect the relative markedness of free relative and correlative constructions, the relative markedness of different case conflict configurations, and the relative markedness of different conflict resolution strategies. Section 1 introduces the conception of markedness as used in Optimality Theory. Section 2 introduces the facts about German free relative clauses, and section 3 presents the results of the corpus study. By and large, markedness and frequency go hand in hand. However, configurations at the highest end of the markedness scale rarely show up in corpus data, and for the configuration at the lowest end we found an unexpected outcome: the more marked structure is preferred.
| Author: | Ralf Vogel, Marco Zugck |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1152905 |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 25.05.2010 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2004 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| Contributing Corporation: | Universität Potsdam |
| SWD-Keyword: | Deutsch ; Optimalitätstheorie ; Relativsatz; Satzanalyse ; Syntax |
| Source: | http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/lip/21/LIP21-6vogzug.pdf ; (in:) Susann Fischer, Ruben van de Vijver, Ralf Vogel (Ed.): Experimental studies in linguistics 1. - Potsdam: Univ.-Verl., [2004], S. 105–122. (Linguistics in Potsdam; 21) |
| HeBIS PPN: | 226046028 |
| Contributor: | Fischer, Susann (Hg.) , Vijver, Ruben van de (Hg.) , Vogel, Ralf (Hg.) |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 435 Deutsche Grammatik |
| Sammlungen: | GiNDok |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
| Licence (German): |  Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |
