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Constructicography at work: implementation and application of the German Constructicon

  • Alexander Ziem EMAIL logo and Johanna Flick
Published/Copyright: November 12, 2019

Abstract

The paper introduces the implementation and application of the German Constructicon hosted at the University of Düsseldorf (www.german-constructicon.de). The ultimate goal of the German Constructicon Project (GCP) is not only to identify and describe oftentimes overlooked grammatical constructions, but also to offer comprehensive descriptions in a dictionary-like online repository. Based on constructicographic analyses of the construction family negating_connector, including geschweige denn (‘let alone’), the paper reports on the annotation categories and the computational work routine yielding construction entries.

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Published Online: 2019-11-12
Published in Print: 2019-11-26

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