I’m collecting data on phrases with two-way prepositions. These are the prepositions that can go with either Dativ or Akkusativ case depending on the usage (an, auf, hinter, in, neben, über, unter, vor, zwischen, and entlang¹).
An initial is to create a list of 2-grams consisting of preposition and article, e.g., über die, which can be either feminine or plural Akkusativ. The list:
- über die (Akkusative feminine or Akkusative plural)
- über das (Akkusative neutral)
- über der (Dativ feminine)
- über dem (Dativ masculine or Dativ neutral)
- über den (Akkusativ masculine or Dativ plural)
My question: Are there any phrases that contain a member of this list that doesn’t fall in the specified category? Using the Google N-gram viewer, I can only find the 10 most common occurences (see here for an example). Is there ever literary or poetic wording where the word order is atypical and, for example, über der can ever be used such that der is the Nominativ masculine? Punctuation between words matters, so über, der is distinct from über der.
¹ entlang is a postposition when used in the Akkusativ.