Modification versus predication and binding: Prenatal particle verb and prefix verb structures in German
- Before modification of their GOAL prepositional phrase by a directional adverb makes them so, prepositional particle verb structures in German like UMschreiben ‘rewrite’ or DURCHweben ‘weave through’ serve to derive in an applicative diathesis prepositional prefix verb structures like umSCHREIBen ‘circumscribe’ or durchWEBen ‘interweave’ (where capitals signal word accent). The diathesis creates an extra inner predication structure (Basilico 1998), introducing a GOTH subject of predication and grammatical object that binds in a reflexive-like (lambda-)relation the original GOAL and THEME. The predication counters an offending asymmetry in the coupling of semantic roles and grammatical functions. In the particle verb case, the offense is redressed externally, via upcycling of a feature that remains locally uninterpretable due to the violation of harmonic linking.
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| Author: | Patrick BrandtGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-129981 |
| Handle: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14094/0100492864 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.24546/0100492863 |
| Parent Title (English): | Papers from the International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification 2024 |
| Publisher: | Department of Linguistics, Graduate School of Humanities, Kōbe University |
| Place of publication: | Kōbe |
| Editor: | Hideki Kishimoto, Masashi Kawashima, Zicheng Xu |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2024 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2025/01/31 |
| Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| Tag: | Modification; Prepositional particle verbs; Prepositional prefix verbs; Reflexive Binding |
| GND Keyword: | Deutsch; Prädikation; Redress; Änderung |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 20 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 430 Deutsch |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| BDSL-Classification: | Grammatik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Grammatikforschung |
| Program areas: | Grammatik |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |