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Abstract

Starting from the term “family of constructions”, the present article investigates lexical and syntactic variation in a subtype of German concessive conditionals which is marked by (‘what’) in combination with expressions of irrelevance like (‘no matter’). 12,894 examples from the DeReKo corpus () are analysed manually for seven variables. Both the quantitative and the qualitative results suggest that combinations of with an expression of irrelevance, or “[IRR ]” for short, form part of a recently entrenched constructional schema [IRR ] of concessive-conditional subordinators which are emerging into the family of concessive-conditional constructions in present-day German.

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Keyword(s): concessive conditionals; construction grammar; corpus linguistics; desententialisation; family of constructions; family resemblance; German; grammaticalisation; intersective gradience; lexical specification; prototypicality; schematicity

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