Dataset containing hypothetical manner clauses in English and Dutch

This dataset contains comma-separated values (csv) files with information about the usage of clauses introduced by the conjunction as if in contemporary British speech and of clauses introduced by the conjunction alsof (‘as if’) in contemporary Dutch speech. We draw on two spoken corpora: (i) the Spoken BNC1994 and (ii) the Corpus Gesproken Nederlands (‘Spoken Dutch Corpus’). For both corpora, we annotated the data manually for a number of syntactic, semantic-pragmatic and prosodic parameters. In total, the dataset includes n = 156 examples for English and n = 247 examples for Dutch. (see ReadMe file) Related publication: Wout Van Praet, Liesbeth Degand and An Van linden. Accepted (2025). As if grammar, discourse and prosody don’t interact: A comparative study of hypothetical manner clauses in English and Dutch. Folia Linguistica.