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Adverbial subordinators in European Languages

This dataset was collected for the following 1997 monograph:

Kortmann, Bernd. 1997. Adverbial subordination: A typology and history of adverbial subordinators based on European languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110812428/html)

Thirty years after the completion of the book manuscript Adverbial subordination, the bulk of the database forming the empirical foundation for this monograph is made available to the research community. So most likely this is the very last "publication" having grown out of the European Science Foundation funded international research programme EUROTYP (Typology of European Languages, 1990-94, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/EUROTYP) that influenced the work and careers of so many typologists in Europe and to some extent still influences and inspires typologists worldwide working on European languages.

The dataset contains complete inventories of adverbial subordinators in 49 modern European languages as well as in Old, Middle, and Early Modern English, with their semantic and morphological properties. The data were collected with contributions from members of the EUROTYP theme group "Adverbial constructions" led by Johan van der Auwera (see https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110802610/html).

Each of the adverbial subordinators is treated as a "construction", so the tab "Constructions" contains a list of all 2063 subordinators. The subordinators are grouped into 32 meaning classes, and the tab "L-Parameters" provides maps that show, for each of these meaning classes, the list of subordinators of each language.

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