Counting Markedness
- 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 details: | Ralf Vogel, Marco Zugck |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-32476 |
ISSN: | 1864-1857 |
ISSN: | 1616-7392 |
Title of parent work (German): | Linguistics in Potsdam |
Subtitle (German): | a corpus investigation on German free relative constructions |
Publisher: | Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
Place of publishing: | Potsdam |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Publication year: | 2003 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2009/07/01 |
Volume: | 21 |
First page: | 105 |
Last Page: | 122 |
RVK - Regensburg classification: | EQ 3310 |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
Collection(s): | Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Linguistics in Potsdam: LIP, ISSN 1864-1857 / LIP (2003) 21 |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
External remark: | zugleich in Printform erschienen im Universitätsverlag Potsdam: Experimental studies in linguistics 1 / Susann Fischer ; Ruben van de Vijver ; Ralf Vogel (eds.). - Potsdam : Univ.-Verl., 2004. - 137 S. : graph. Darst. 1 Beitr. in dt. Sprache (Linguistics in Potsdam ; 21) ISBN 3-935024-97-6 |