TY - JOUR A1 - De Cesare, Ilaria T1 - Quantitative Methoden in diachronen Studien T2 - Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik : ZGL N2 - On the basis of a case study on the linearisation of German infinitival complements, the present paper illustrates the advantages of selected quantitative and statistical methods in diachronic studies. In particular, it first discusses, the problem of the availability of balanced diachronic corpora and how mixed-effects modelling can help make the best of "bad data" and second, it deals with the question of periodisation and shows the advantages of a data-driven method. Y1 - 2023 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/64244 SN - 0301-3294 SN - 1613-0626 VL - 51 IS - 1 SP - 124 EP - 151 PB - de Gruyter CY - Berlin ER -