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Qualitative Korpusanalyse für die Grammatiktheorie: Introspektion vs. Korpus

Subject Areas: corpus, introspection, syntax, particle verb, extraposition, subjacency, fronting

This paper appeared 2007 in Gisela Zifonun and Werner Kallmeyer (Eds): Sprachkorpora – Datenmengen und Erkenntnisfortschritt. Institut für Deutsche Sprache Jahrbuch 2006, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pages 70–90.

I discuss three syntactic phenomena, which are highly relevant for theoretical linguistics. I show that introspection is not sufficient support for theories and develop corpus querries for the cases under discussion. The paper concludes with some general remarks concerning the limits of corpus linguistics.

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