@incollection{AugustinCziczaGunkeletal.2023,
  author    = {Augustin, Hagen and Czicza, D{\´a}niel and Gunkel, Lutz and Schlotthauer, Susan and Schwabe, Kerstin and Trawiński, Beata and W{\"o}llstein, Angelika},
  title     = {Propositional arguments in English, German, Hungarian, Italian and Polish},
  booktitle = {10th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10), 18-21 July, 2023, Mannheim, Germany},
  editor    = {Trawiński, Beata and Kupietz, Marc and Proost, Kristel and Zinken, J{\"o}rg},
  isbn      = {978-3-937241-96-8},
  doi       = {10.14618/f8rt-m155},
  url       = {https://iclc10.ids-mannheim.de},
  pages     = {218 -- 221},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {In many European languages, propositional arguments (PAs) can be realized as different types of structures. Cross-linguistically, complex structures with PAs show a systematic correlation between the strength of the semantic bond and the syntactic union (cf. Giv{\´o}n 2001; Wurmbrand/Lohninger 2023). Also, different languages show similarities with respect to the (lexical) licensing of different PAs (cf. Noonan 1985; Giv{\´o}n 2001; Cristofaro 2003 on different predicate types). However, on a more fine-grained level, a variation across languages can be observed both with respect to the syntactic-semantic properties of PAs as well as to their licensing and usage. This presentation takes a multi-contrastive view of different types of PAs as syntactic subjects and objects by looking at five European languages: EN, DE, IT, PL and HU. Our goal is to identify the parameters of variation in the clausal domain with PAs and by this to contribute to a better understanding of the individual language systems on the one hand and the nature of the linguistic variation in the clausal domain on the other hand. Phenomena and Methodology: We investigate the following types of PAs: direct object (DO) clauses (1), prepositional object (PO) clauses (2), subject clauses (3), and nominalizations (4, 5). Additionally, we discuss clause union phenomena (6, 7). The analyzed parameters include among others finiteness, linear position of the PA, (non) presence of a correlative element, (non) presence of a complementizer, lexical-semantic class of the embedding verb. The phenomena are analyzed based on corpus data (using mono- and multilingual corpora), experimental data (acceptability judgement surveys) or introspective data.},
  subject      = {Deutsch},
  language  = {en}
}