Propositional arguments in English, German, Hungarian, Italian and Polish
- 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. Givón 2001; Wurmbrand/Lohninger 2023). Also, different languages show similarities with respect to the (lexical) licensing of different PAs (cf. Noonan 1985; Givón 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.
Author: | Hagen AugustinGND, Dániel CziczaGND, Lutz GunkelORCiDGND, Susan SchlotthauerGND, Kerstin SchwabeGND, Beata TrawińskiORCiDGND, Angelika WöllsteinORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-122646 |
URL: | https://iclc10.ids-mannheim.de |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.14618/f8rt-m155 |
ISBN: | 978-3-937241-96-8 |
Parent Title (English): | 10th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10), 18-21 July, 2023, Mannheim, Germany |
Publisher: | IDS-Verlag |
Place of publication: | Mannheim |
Editor: | Beata Trawiński, Marc Kupietz, Kristel Proost, Jörg Zinken |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2023 |
Date of Publication (online): | 2023/11/06 |
Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
Tag: | English; German; Hungarian; Italian; Polish; clause union; propositional argument |
GND Keyword: | Deutsch; Englisch; Italienisch; Kontrastive Syntax; Polnisch; Proposition; Ungarisch |
First Page: | 218 |
Last Page: | 221 |
DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
Open Access?: | ja |
Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
Linguistics-Classification: | Kontrastive Linguistik |
Linguistics-Classification: | Korpuslinguistik |
Program areas: | G1: Beschreibung und Erschließung Grammatischen Wissens |
Licence (German): | ![]() |