The genitive alternation in German (dataset)

An annotated dataset, documentation and an R script for reproducing the analysis reported in Kopf, Kristin & Felix Bildhauer. 2024. The genitive alternation in German. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. Published online November 13, 2024.

Contents

genitive_alternation_cllt.tsv: a dataset containing 14,684 instances of nouns with either a genitive modifier or a von-modifier (one per line, with several layers of annotation in individual columns). It was used for analyzing the genitive alternation in German, as reported in Kopf & Bildhauer (2024). Tab-separated values, utf-8.

cllt.standalone.R: an R script that reproduces the analysis from Kopf & Bildhauer (2024)

documentation.markdown: dataset documentation

License

The dataset includes data from two different sources, as indicated in the column "License", to which different licences apply:

Data from the German Reference Corpus DeReKo are subject to the End User Agreement for the Use of the German Reference Corpus DeReKo (version of 2018-05-24). In particular, commercial use is excluded. Furthermore, this data may not be passed on to third parties or published without the written consent of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language. This does not apply to quotations and excerpts.

Data from the DECOW16 web corpus are subject to the COW TERMS OF USE (version 2.1, 2014-12-16). In particular, commercial use is excluded.

The column "Licence" states the applicable licence for each data point.

By downloading the dataset, the user agrees to use the data in accordance with the applicable license.