This repository contains GerEO, a set of annotations on German sentences containing an experiencer-object (EO) verb, as well as scripts and materials for publications that relate to it. EO verbs are psychological predicates whose Experiencer argument is mapped onto the object. They are claimed to be syntactically special in the literature. All annotations were performed as part of our project The grammar of Experiencer-Object verbs: theoretical, computational and experimental approaches towards reflexive binding in German (supported by a DFG grant (KI 759/9-1)). The complete annotation guidelines are available from the LDSL website as volume 4 of SLLDS.
This folder contains the annotations: one CSV file per verb, encoding: utf-8, separator: ;
Data points go by rows, annotations by columns. The columns:
- Verb: verb lemma
- NZZ_ID: Unique identifier of sentence
- Token_ID: position of verb in sentence
- Sentence: the sentence
- Sentence CoNLL: contains grammatical information on the sentence presented in CoNLL-U format, i.e. one word per line, properties separated by whitespace. The properties: word ID, word, lemma, universal part-of-speech tag, STTS tag, morphological features, ID of syntactic head, dependency relation between the word and its head (Universal Dependencies, cf. (de Marneffe et al., 2021)). Automatically generated with Stanza 1.2.3 (Qi et al., 2020) using the default models for German, which were trained on the gsd corpus (McDonald et al., 2013).
- not_of_interest: X or empty, should data point be excluded?
- non-psych: X or empty, does the verb have a psych reading in this sentence?
- X-STM_V_Y-EXP -- tough: X or empty, syntactic pattern
- Stimulus_type: character string or empty, type of stimulus
- Stimulus_PP: character string or empty, form of eventual stimulus preposition (if there is more than one: prepositions in alphabetical order separated by commas)
- Control: X or empty, is the verb embedded under a control predicate?
- Other_stimulus_adjunct: X or empty, is there another kind of stimulus indicating adjunct?
- Comment: string or empty, obligatory comments
- Misc: X or empty, comments by annotator
- Misc2: X or empty, comments by adjudicator
Materials for (Poppek, Masloch, Robrecht & Kiss, 2021): A Quantitative Approach towards German Experiencer-Object Verbs
Handout for our talk on the divergent behaviour of schmeicheln and imponieren (compared to other dative EO verbs) at the 15th Forum for Germanic Language Studies conference in January, 2022.
Materials for our paper "A Corpus-based Perspective on ‘Split Stimuli’ in German" based on a presentation delivered at Grammar and Corpora 2022 in Ghent. See separate Readme there.