VP-Fronting in Czech and Polish—A Case Study in Corpus-Oriented Grammar Research
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Thanks are due to the Institute of the Czech National Corpus and to the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences which kindly provided the data source for this paper. I also wish to thank Denisa Lenertová and the audiences of the Potsdam Workshop on Heterogenity in Linguistic Databases and of the 13th JungslavistInnen-Treffen for discussion, and the editors for their friendly insistence. All errors are my own. 1 The glosses are abbreviated as follows: ACC=accusative, AUX=auxiliary, DAT=dative, FUT=future, GEN=genitive, INS=instrumental, MASC=masculine, MP=modal particle, NEG=negation, NOM=nominative, PL=plural, PT=past tense, REFL=reflexive, SBJ=subjunctive, SG=singular.
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