TY  - CPAPER
U1  - Konferenzveröffentlichung
A1  - Kretzschmar, Franziska
A1  - Graf, Tim
A1  - Philipp, Markus
A1  - Primus, Beatrice
ED  - Gattnar, Anja
ED  - Hörnig, Robin
ED  - Störzer, Melanie
ED  - Featherston, Sam
T1  - An experimental investigation of agent prototypicality and agent prominence in German
T2  - Proceedings of linguistic evidence 2018: experimental data drives linguistic theory
N2  - We investigate whether prototypicality or prominence of semantic roles can account for role-related effects in sentence interpretation. We present two acceptability-rating experiments testing three different constructions: active, personal passive and DO-clefts involving the same type of transitive verbs that differ with respect to the agentive role features they select. Our results reveal that there is no cross-constructional advantage for prototypical roles (e.g., agents), hence disconfirming a central tenet of role prototypicality. Rather, acceptability clines depend on the construction under investigation, thereby highlighting different role features. This finding is in line with one core assumption of the prominence account stating that role features are flexibly highlighted depending on the discourse function of the respective construction.
KW  - Prototyp <Linguistik>
KW  - Agens
KW  - Thematische Relation
KW  - Transitives Verb
KW  - semantic roles
KW  - agent prototypicality
KW  - agent prominence
KW  - acceptability ratings
Y1  - 2019
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-dspace-912478
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10900/91247
U6  - https://doi.org/10.15496/publikation-32628
DO  - https://doi.org/10.15496/publikation-32628
N1  - Appendix mit Seitenzahlen I-XIII.
SP  - 101
EP  - 123
PB  - University of Tübingen
CY  - Tübingen
ER  -