Investigating the productivity of the alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat construction in Present-Day German and Icelandic Ghent University
This study investigates the productivity of the alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat construction in German and Icelandic. Through both a corpus study and a number of psycholinguistic experiments, we show that the verbs in question alternate between two case frames, and hence that subjecthood is constructionally determined. Preliminary (corpus) results for both languages individually show that such is indeed the case.