Abstract
This paper is about variation and how to make sense of it. It takes as its material a construction that has been treated as a new part of the system of Danish and Swedish, viz. the plus at ‘plus that’ construction. The corpus I have used to evaluate claims about this construction is the LANCHART corpus of spoken Danish from 1970 to 2010. The data from the LANCHART corpus show that the construction has a specific use (and function), that not very many informants use it and that those who do overwhelmingly use only one instance. Thus, the construction may safely be said to be marginal at least in the corpus data. The issue is how to theorize this. This is the theme of the final section.
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