@article{Fisseni2018, author = {Bernhard Fisseni}, title = {{\"U}berhaupt und sowieso and {\"u}berhaupt en sowieso}, series = {Sprache und Datenverarbeitung}, volume = {33}, number = {1-2}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Rhein-Ruhr OHG}, address = {Duisburg}, issn = {0343-5202}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-81754}, pages = {25 -- 43}, year = {2018}, abstract = {We compare the use of {\"u}berhaupt and sowieso in Dutch and German. We use the world-wide web as the main resource and pursue a zigzag strategy, trying to find usages going back and forth between dictionaries, intuitions and real data obtained through web search. To our surprise, the results more or less confirm the decision of Dutch dictionaries to consider {\"u}berhaupt and sowieso synonymous. In German, we find no synonymy, but only a great overlap of usage conditions in declarative sentences.}, language = {en} }