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Constructing a constructicon for German

Empirical, theoretical, and methodological issues

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Abstract
This chapter discusses a number of important issues underlying and motivating the development of a constructicon for German. More specifically, it presents an overview of some typologically interesting facets of German syntax such as word order, topological fields, case, and passives. Taking a contrastive view of some German constructions and their English counterparts, this chapter shows under what circumstances existing entries from the Berkeley constructicon for English can be reused to create corresponding entries in a German constructicon. Of particular interest in this context are the notions of idiomaticity, abstraction, and the continuum of constructional correspondence. Finally, this chapter introduces ongoing constructicographic efforts to create a constructicon for German. To document the current status of the project, both the methodology and the workflow guiding the German Constructicon project (GCon) are illustrated.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Typological considerations
    • 2.1Word order
    • 2.2Case
    • 2.3Constructions at different levels of abstraction
  • 3.Contrastive issues
  • 4.The ‘continuum of constructional correspondences’: Consequences for the design of a German constructicon
    • 4.1The just_because_doesn’t_mean construction: exemplifying one end of the ‘continuum of constructional correspondences’
    • 4.2The family of exclamative constructions: Exemplifying constructions with partial commonalities in German and English
    • 4.3The way construction: Towards the other end of the ‘continuum of constructional correspondences’
  • 5.Towards a German constructicon
  • 6.Conclusions and outlook
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
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