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Recording and explaining : exploring the German ditransitive alternation

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In this discussion note, we offer some thoughts on the relation between explanation and the extensive recording of data from a ‘moderate’ functional point of view. The paper takes the form of a case study in which we consider the variation in form and function of sentences with the ditransitive verb geben in present-day standard German. This is the subject matter of an ongoing corpus-based research project in the General Linguistics section of the Linguistics Department at Ghent University.
Book: Mapping linguistic data : essays in honour of Liliane Haegeman
Pages: 313 - 322
Publication year:2019
Accessibility:Open