A Constructionist Micro-Typology of Concessive Conditionals in Present-Day German: Patterns of Formal and Functional Variation

This project is the first large-scale investigation of concessive conditionals (CCs) within usage-based CxG. German ‘universal’ and ‘alternative’ CCs are connected by intersective gradience to predicates embedding interrogatives. Using extensive corpus data, the project will create a constructionist micro-typology of German CCs, document the cline linking CC protases to predicates and provide a formalised account of the cline’s discourse basis.