Jakob Horsch
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jakob Horsch is involved.
Articles
2024 Cuanto(s) más datos, (tanto) mejor: A corpus-based study of the Spanish comparative correlative construction Review of Cognitive Linguistics 22:1, pp. 204–257 | Article
The Spanish comparative correlative (CC) construction (Cuanto más leo, (tanto) más entiendo) has a complex syntactic structure and complex semantics. The syntactic relationship between its two subclauses has been subject to much debate. This study, the first large-scale (> 3,000 tokens) corpus… read more
2021 Slovak comparative correlatives: A usage-based construction grammar account Constructions and Frames 13:2, pp. 193–229 | Article
Comparative Correlatives (CCs) are biclausal constructions (e.g. The harder you work, the more you earn) that have complex semantics and form. This is the first construction grammar-based corpus study to investigate Slovak CCs, based on a 500-token sample. I argue that intra-clausal word-order… read more
Weight effects in Slovak: A corpus investigation Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This corpus study investigates the principle of end-weight, i.e., the role of constituent weight in determining postverbal NP and PP order, in Slovak. Drawing on a 266-token sample from the Slovak National Corpus, I examine whether Slovak, reflecting findings from research on English, exhibits a… read more