{"title":"Quantitative Methoden in diachronen Studien: Anwendung am Beispiel der Wortstellungsvariation in deutschen Infinitiven","authors":"Ilaria De Cesare","doi":"10.1515/zgl-2023-2004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract On the basis of a case study on the linearisation of German infinitival complements, the present paper illustrates the advantages of selected quantitative and statistical methods in diachronic studies. In particular, it first discusses, the problem of the availability of balanced diachronic corpora and how mixed-effects modelling can help make the best of “bad data” and second, it deals with the question of periodisation and shows the advantages of a data-driven method.","PeriodicalId":43090,"journal":{"name":"ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GERMANISTISCHE LINGUISTIK","volume":"51 1","pages":"124 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GERMANISTISCHE LINGUISTIK","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zgl-2023-2004","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract On the basis of a case study on the linearisation of German infinitival complements, the present paper illustrates the advantages of selected quantitative and statistical methods in diachronic studies. In particular, it first discusses, the problem of the availability of balanced diachronic corpora and how mixed-effects modelling can help make the best of “bad data” and second, it deals with the question of periodisation and shows the advantages of a data-driven method.
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The subject area of the ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR GERMANISTISCHE LINGUISTIK (ZGL) is the German language of the present as well as the history of the German language in all its differentiations. The main focus of the journal is on the standard language of today. The ZGL publishes articles, discussions, and reports on the most important developments in the field, as well as review articles of selected books. The annual list of newly published books ("Neue Bücher") and the journal exhibit ("Zeitschriftenschau") of approx. 80 international journals support the integration of the field of German linguistics.