37.192, FYI: Adverbial Subordinators in European Languages: CrossGram Dataset

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Subject: 37.192, FYI: Adverbial Subordinators in European Languages: CrossGram Dataset

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Date: 14-Jan-2026
From: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernd Kortmann [bernd.kortmann at anglistik.uni-freiburg.de]
Subject: Adverbial Subordinators in European Languages: CrossGram Dataset


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.
Link to the dataset:
https://crossgram.clld.org/contributions/kortmannadverbial

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Typology




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