This repository contains the dataset and R codes for our paper that has been published in NUSA (Linguistic studies of languages in and around Indonesia) special volume (74) on "Applicatives in Austronesian Languages". How to cite the paper Rajeg, Gede Primahadi Wijaya & I Wayan Arka. 2023. Usage-based perspective on argument realisation: A corpus study of Indonesian BUY verbs in applicative construction with -kan. In Jocelyn Aznar, Christian Döhler & Jozina Vander Klok (eds.), NUSA (special issue on "Applicatives in Austronesian Languages"), vol. 74, 83–114. https://tufs.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2000019. Description of the repository The .qmd file contains the R codes used to produce the quantitative analyses in the paper, including the statistical figures. This .qmd file also interweaves some text narratives with the codes. The file is published as a webpage at: https://gederajeg.github.io/applicative-buy/ The raw, annotated concordance data is located in the data directory. The statistical figures can also be accessed individually here.

The earlier version of this paper was presented at the workshop on Austronesian argument alternations in discourse (at the Australian National University [ANU], 28-29 November 2022) as part of the project Where does grammar come from? The cognitive basis of transitivity and grammatical relations. The first author is truly grateful to (i) the workshop organisers, Åshild Næss and Bethwyn Evans, for the fully funded invitation to attend the workshop, and (ii) I Wayan Arka for his recommendation to the organisers to invite me to the workshop. We also appreciate the feedback and comments from the workshop participants, especially Anna Margetts, Sonja Riesberg, Linn Iren Sjånes Rødvand, and Jozina Vander Klok, as well as from the two anonymous reviewers of this paper. Finally, we thank Jozina Vander Klok for inviting us to contribute to this NUSA special issue on the applicative construction.