Author of the README file: Piia Taremaa 
Last updated: 17.02.2021

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GENERAL INFORMATION
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Title of the dataset: Data and R code for "Constructional variation in Estonian: demonstrative pronouns and adverbs as determiners in noun phrases" 
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23673/re-269
URI: https://datadoi.ee/handle/33/327 
Description: data and statistical code used in the paper "Constructional variation in Estonian: demonstrative pronouns and adverbs as determiners in noun phrases" (accepted by Lingua 2021); Piia Taremaa, Helen Hint, Maria Reile, Renate Pajusalu


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DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
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The dataset consists of the following files:

- Documentation: '00_README_constrVarInEst.txt'. This file (= the current document) contains the documentation of the dataset.
- Data: 'CVE.txt'.
- Statistical code: 'R code for 'Constructional variation in Estonian' (Taremaa et al. 2021).txt'.


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DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR 'CVE.txt'
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File: 'CVE.txt'.

This file contains corpus data. Corpus clauses are taken from the Estonian National Corpus 2017. Clauses are manually coded by the authors of the paper.

List of the variables (levels):
* SubConstruction (seal_N_ine, siin_N_ine, selles_N_ine, tolles_N_ine, seal_N_ade, siin_N_ade, 	sellel_N_ade, tollel_N_ade, sealt_N_ela, siit_N_ela, sellest_N_ela, tollest_N_ela, sealt_N_abl, siit_N_abl, sellelt_N_abl, tollelt_N_abl, sinna_N_ill, siia_N_ill, sellesse_N_ill, tollesse_N_ill, sinna_N_all, siia_N_all, sellele_N_all, tollele_N_all)
* Construction	(demPronNP, demAdvNP) 
* DemDistance (proximal, distal) 
* DemSpatRel (Source, Location, Goal) 
* DemCase (innerCase, outerCase) 
* NounAnimacy (animate, inanimate) 
* NounSize (large, small, unclear) 	
* NounConcreteness (abstract, ambiguous, concrete, unknown)	
* NounMobility	(mobile, stative, unclear)
* NounTemporality (temporal, non-temporal)	
* NounLemmaLength (2...5, 6...8, 9...19)	
* NounFrequency	(highly frequent, frequent, infrequent)
* MotionVerb (yes, no)	
* VerbPlacement	(left, right, no (finite) verb)
* TextType (informal, institutional, journalistic, Wikipedia, other)	
* SubCorpus (1990-2008, 2013, 2017)