TY - CHAP U1 - Teil eines Buches A1 - Schwabe, Kerstin A1 - Zuchewicz, Karolina ED - Trawiński, Beata ED - Kupietz, Marc ED - Proost, Kristel ED - Zinken, Jörg T1 - NP + infinitival and participial clausal constructions in German, English, Italian, Hungarian, and Polish T2 - 10th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10), 18-21 July, 2023, Mannheim, Germany N2 - In G, E, I, and H there are constructions with accusative NPs being the external argument of an infinitival, (1) to (4). In P these accusative NPs can only co-occur with an adjectival participle, (5), a construction also occurring in E, (6). The talk compares the syntactic and semantic structure of these constructions focussing on the syntactic category of the nonfinite clause, the status of the accusative NP, the status of the infinitive, restructuring effects, and embedding predicates (including aspect). i. As to G, E, I, and H, the infinitival clause is regarded as a TP, i.e., a small clause. Its accusative NP and infinitival predicate form a unit – [4], [12], [8]. The AcI denotes, according to [4], an eventuality, which prevents it from being negated. Its subject is case marked by the matrix predicate, either by ECM or subject-to-object raising – [9] and [10]. AcI-constructions can show clause union effects, (7). H additionally allows Dative subjects in infinitive clauses, the latter only being licensed by impersonal predicates and co-occurring with an agreeing infinitive, (8a), – [3]. In case there is no agreeing infinitive, the Dative NP is the experiencer of the matrix clause, (8b). As for Italian, it allows Nominative subject NPs in the infinitive clause, (9a, b). ii. As to P, small clause constructions differ structurally from E, G, I and H ones – [6], [7]. P small clauses are realizable by copula constructions with verbal być ‘be’ pronominal to ‘it’, (10), or “dual” copula elements, (cooccurrence of a pronominal and a verbal element, [1]), varying with respect to selectional restrictions (part of speech or case within complement phrases, extraction possibilities, [1]). The P counterpart to the AcI-constructions is the secondary predication over an accusative object via an adjectival present participle, (5), (11) and (12). The adjectival participle construction is systematically paraphrasable via clauses introduced by jak ‘how’ (11’) and (12’). In Polish, adjectival phrases like recytującego wiersz ‘reciting’, (11), and wracającego z podróży ‘returning’, (12), clearly function as adjuncts of the accusative object go ‘him’. In our talk, we will compare this P view to languages with typical AcI-constructions, where the AcI-clause is standardly analyzed as a complement of a matrix verb. KW - small clause KW - AcI KW - exceptional case marking KW - subject-to-object-raising KW - Nominalphrase KW - Infinitiv KW - Akkusativ KW - Deutsch KW - Englisch KW - Italienisch KW - Ungarisch KW - Polnisch KW - Kontrastive Grammatik Y1 - 2023 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-122496 UR - https://iclc10.ids-mannheim.de/ SN - 978-3-937241-96-8 SB - 978-3-937241-96-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.14618/f8rt-m155 DO - https://doi.org/10.14618/f8rt-m155 SP - 155 EP - 157 PB - IDS-Verlag CY - Mannheim ER -