Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
List of tables
List of figures
Introduction
Chapter 1.
Research questions and research context
1.1
Research questions
1.2
Previous research
1.2.1
Starke, Matzel, Wegener
1.2.2
Valency Theory and valency dictionaries
1.2.3
The Construction Grammar Approach
1.2.4
The Verb Sensitive Approach
1.2.5
The Probabilistic Approach
1.2.6
Integrative approaches
Chapter 2.
Theoretical prerequisites
2.1
Preliminary typological clarifications
2.2
The locus of the alternation
2.3
Diathesis
2.4
Ditransitivity and the Ditransitivity Hierarchy
2.5
Construction – allostruction – constructeme
2.6
Constituent order
Chapter 3.
The Three-Layer Approach
Chapter 4.
Methodology
4.1
Data collection
4.1.1
Characteristics and limitations of the corpus
4.1.2
Selection of verbs
4.1.3
Data retrieval
4.2
Data annotation
4.3
Statistical modelling
Chapter 5.
Case studies
5.1
Geben
5.1.1
Corpus distribution of the alternation
5.1.2
Constituent order
5.1.3
Statistical analysis
5.2
Schicken and
senden
5.2.1
Corpus distribution of the alternation
5.2.2
Constituent order
5.2.3
Statistical analysis
5.2.4
IOC vs.
an-POC vs.
zu-POC
5.3
The complex verbs
5.3.1
Occurrence of the alternation compared to the noncomplex
verbs
5.3.2
Complex -
geben verbs
5.3.3
Complex -
schicken and -
senden
verbs
5.3.4
Ausleihen,
verleihen and
verkaufen
Chapter 6.
Discussion
6.1
Motivating factors
6.2
The scope of the constructional variation
6.2.1
The occurrence of the IOC/POC alternation with
geben
6.2.2
The occurrence and extent of the IOC/POC alternation with
schicken and
senden
6.2.3
The occurrence of the IOC/POC alternation with complex verbs
6.3
Theoretical implications
6.4
Further research
Chapter 7.
Summary and conclusions
References
Appendices
Statistical models
A.
The
geben model of 05/03/2020
B.
The
schicken/senden model of 10/03/2020
C.
The complex
geben model of 10/03/2020
D.
The complex
schicken/senden model of
11/03/2020
E.
The
ausleihen, verleihen, verkaufen model of
11/03/2020
Additional examples
Subject index
Author index