TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Graf, Tim
A1  - Philipp, Markus
A1  - Xu, Xiaonan
A1  - Kretzschmar, Franziska
A1  - Primus, Beatrice
T1  - The interaction between telicity and agentivity: Experimental evidence from intransitive verbs in German and Chinese
JF  - Lingua
N2  - Telicity and agentivity are semantic factors that split intransitive verbs into (at least two) different classes. Clear-cut unergative verbs, which select the auxiliary HAVE, are assumed to be atelic and agent-selecting; unequivocally unaccusative verbs, which select the auxiliary BE, are analyzed as telic and patient-selecting. Thus, agentivity and telicity are assumed to be inversely correlated in split intransitivity. We will present semantic and experimental evidence from German and Mandarin Chinese that casts doubts on this widely held assumption. The focus of our experimental investigation lies on variation with respect to agentivity (specifically motion control, manipulated via animacy), telicity (tested via a locative vs. goal adverbial), and BE/HAVE-selection with semantically flexible intransitive verbs of motion. Our experimental methods are acceptability ratings for German and Chinese (Experiments 1 and 2) and event-related potential (ERP) measures for German (Experiment 3). Our findings contradict the above-mentioned assumption that agentivity and telicity are generally inversely correlated and suggest that for the verbs under study, agentivity and telicity harmonize with each other. Furthermore, the ERP measures reveal that the impact of the interaction under discussion is more pronounced on the verb lexeme than on the auxiliary. We also found differences between Chinese and German that relate to the influence of telicity on BE/HAVE-selection. They seem to confirm the claim in previous research that the weight of the telicity factor locomotion (or internal motion) is cross-linguistically variable.
KW  - Psycholinguistik
KW  - Experimentelle Psychologie
KW  - Intransitives Verb
KW  - Hilfsverb
KW  - Chinesisch
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Bewegungsverb
KW  - auxiliary selection
KW  - agentivity
KW  - animacy
KW  - telicity
KW  - motion verbs
KW  - event-related brain potentials
Y1  - 2017
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-102560
SN  - 0024-3841
SS  - 0024-3841
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2017.08.006
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2017.08.006
VL  - 200
SP  - 84
EP  - 106
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -