TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Ruppenhofer, Josef
A1  - Michaelis, Laura A.
T1  - Valence Creation and the German Applicative: The Inherent Semantics of Linking Patterns
JF  - Journal of Semantics
N2  - We provide a unified account of semantic effects observable in attested examples of the German applicative (‘be-’) construction, e.g. Rollstuhlfahrer Poul Sehachsen aus Kopenhagen will den 1997 erschienenen Wegweiser Handiguide Europa fortführen und zusammen mit Movado Berlin berollen (‘Wheelchair user Poul Schacksen from Copenhagen wants to continue the guide ‘Handiguide Europe’, which came out in 1997, and roll Berlin together with Movado.’). We argue that these effects do not come from lexico-semantic operations on ‘input’ verbs, but are instead the products of a reconciliation procedure in which the meaning of the verb is integrated into the event-structure schema denoted by the applicative construction. We analyze the applicative pattern as an argument-structure construction, in terms of Goldberg (1995). We contrast this approach with that of Brinkmann (1997), in which properties associated with the applicative pattern (e.g. omissibility of the theme argument, holistic interpretation of the goal argument, and planar construal of the location argument) are attributed to general semantico-pragmatic principles. We undermine the generality of the principles as stated, and assert that these properties are instead construction-particular. We further argue that the constructional account provides an elegant model of the valence-creation and valence-augmentation functions of the prefix. We describe the constructional semantics as prototype-based: diverse implications of fee-predications, including iteration, transfer, affectedness, intensity and saturation, derive via regular patterns of semantic extension from the topological concept of coverage.
KW  - linking patterns
KW  - semantics
KW  - Formale Semantik
KW  - Verb
KW  - Valenz <Linguistik>
Y1  - 2000
U6  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-56078
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-56078
UR  - http://jos.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/4.toc
N1  - Dieser Beitrag ist aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht frei zugänglich.  
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VL  - 17
IS  - 4
SP  - 335
EP  - 395
PB  - Oxford University Press (OUP)
CY  - Oxford
ER  -