For verbs, these are: -VAFIN: finite auxiliary -VAPP: past participle of an auxiliary -VMFIN: finite modal auxiliary -VMINF: infinite modal auxiliary -VVFIN: finite lexical verb -VVIMP: imperative of a lexical verb -VVINF: infinitive of a lexical verb -VVPP: past participle of a lexical verb As described in the Introduction, finite German verbs can occur in different sentence positions.
we additionally coded the syntactic position of finite verbs as follows: sentence-initial "V1", "V2" and "sentence-final" (or "other" in case the syntactic structure was unclear due to elisions, noise, etc.).