Pseudo-coordinated sitzen and stehen in spoken German: a case of emergent progressive aspect?
- This paper investigates the aspectual potential of posture verb pseudocoordination in spoken German. In a corpus study of sitzen ‘sit’ and stehen ‘stand’, it is shown that despite a preference for activity verbs, verbs of all aspectual classes occur in the second conjunct. The posture verb imposes its durative meaning component on the second verb, thus making a progressive interpretation of the construction possible. Apart from this emergent aspectual function, German posture verb pseudocoordination has a subjective function (conveying the speaker’s beliefs about the subject referent’s stance), and a discourse pragmatic function (information packaging).
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| Author: | Nadine ProskeORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-124001 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/S1470542722000216 |
| ISSN: | 1475-3014 |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of Germanic Linguistics |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Place of publication: | Cambridge |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2023 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2023/12/15 |
| Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| GND Keyword: | Deutsch; Grammatikalisation; Ortsadverb; Positionsverb; Progressiv; Subjektivierung <Linguistik>; Temporaladverb; Verb; Zustandsverb; sitzen <Wort>; stehen <Wort> |
| Volume: | 35 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| First Page: | 447 |
| Last Page: | 486 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| BDSL-Classification: | Grammatik |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Pragmalinguistik / Kommunikationsforschung |
| Program areas: | P1: Interaktion |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International |