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Der Beitrag gliedert sich in drei Teile. In Abschnitt 2 führe ich zunächst den Begriff der Phraseoschablone ein und erläutere, inwiefern diese Untergruppe der Phraseologismen Eigenschaften von grammatischen Konstruktionen aufweist, deren konzise Erfassung eine notwendige Voraussetzung dafür ist, Beschränkungen bei der Produktivität und der semantischen Variabilität der Phraseologismen zu erklären. Daran anschließend werden in Abschnitt 3 Ergebnisse einer korpuslinguistischen Fallstudie nominaler Reduplikationen mit den Präpositionen an, in und über dargelegt und erörtert. Abschnitt 4 fasst schließlich die erzielten Ergebnisse im übergeordneten Zusammenhang zusammen und gibt einen Ausblick auf weitere Forschungsfragen.
The paper is concerned with the filling of the right edge of a German clause with different constituents: subconstituents of the clause, arguments and modifiers of the NP, appositions and right-dislocated elements. It is argued that these different ways of filling the right edge come about in quite different ways. Subconstituents of the clause are base generated at the right edge in syntax. Constituents of the NP and appositions get to the right edge postsyntactically, i.e., they are linearised there only in the phonological component. Finally, the appearance of right-dislocated constituents is the result of two well-established deletion processes operating on two adjacent clauses.
The different mechanisms allow us to understand differences these elements show regarding positioning inside the right edge, binding and intonation. An important empirical generalisation put forward in the IDS-grammar can be captured. The grammar's controversial assumption that the right edge comprises a part which is disintegrated in between two syntactically integrated parts can be shown to be superfluous.
In current corpuslinguistic investigations, especially the collection of linguistic data and the frequency of linguistic phenomena (i.e. in the "linguistic matter") is in the center of interest of morphological discussions. This paper argues in favor of taking also morphological "antimatter" in account, i.e. surveying the structure of words containing morphological restrictions which cannot be proven systematically. With recourse to Popper's falsificationism and starting with prominent restrictions in the morphology of German, the article discusses theoretical consequences and chances for morphological theory with special emphasis on morphological change, i.e. when antimatter becomes matter and vice versa.
Constructionist approaches to grammar do not draw a clear distinction between lexicon and grammar, as generative "words and rules" accounts do. Rather, they conceptualize grammar and lexicon as a continuum of constructions of greater or lesser complexity and abstraction. In this paper, i explore the implications of this paradigm shift for the applied discipline of grammaticography. If we abandon the distinction between grammar and lexicon, should we also abandon the distinction between grammar, books and dictionaries? Drawing on a case study on the treatment of verbless constructions in the "IDS-Grammatik", it is argued that constructions should play a greater role in grammar books, but that grammar books still need to provide access to general principles of grammar.
This paper shows how experimental methods can advance syntactic description and syntactic theory. The empirical domain is the order of verbs in German verb clusters containing a modal verb in the perfect. Such clusters are special insofar as prescriptive grammar requires the finite verb to appear in cluster-initial instead of cluster-final position (e.g., hat lesen müssen 'has read must' instead of lesen müssen hat 'read must has'). Contrary to this requirement, experiments show that native speakers accept the auxiliary also in later positions as long as it precedes the modal verb. The acceptability data are corroborated by corpus data and experimental data from language production. The relevance of the experimental data for syntactic theory are discussed.
Codeswitching
(2018)
Funktion
(2018)
Since Lerner coined the notion of delayed completion in 1989, this recurrent social practice of continuing one’s speaking turn while disregarding an intermediate co-participant’s utterance has not been investigated with regard to embodied displays and actions. A sequential approach to videotaped mundane conversations in German will explain the occurrence and use of delayed completions. First, especially in multi-party and multi-activity settings, delayed completions can result from reduced monitoring and coordinating activities. Second, recipients can use intra-turn response slots for more extended responsive actions than the current speaker initially projected, leading to delayed completion sequences. Finally, delayed completions are used for blocking possibly misaligned co-participant actions. The investigation of visible action illustrates that delayed completions are a basic practice for retrospectively managing co-participant response slots.
This paper aims to describe different patterns of syntactic extensions of turns-at-talk in mundane conversations in Czech. Within interactional linguistics, same-speaker continuations of possibly complete syntactic structures have been described for typologically diverse languages, but have not yet been investigated for Slavic languages. Based on previously established descriptions of various types of extensions (Vorreiter 2003; Couper-Kuhlen & Ono 2007), our initial description shall therefore contribute to the cross-linguistic exploration of this phenomenon. While all previously described forms for continuing a turn-constructional unit seem to exist in Czech, some grammatical features of this language (especially free word order and strong case morphology) may lead to problems in distinguishing specific types of syntactic extensions. Consequently, this type of language allows for critically evaluating the cross-linguistic validity of the different categories and underlines the necessity of analysing syntactic phenomena within their specific action contexts.
Die Polysemie satzeinbettender Prädikate spielt eine wichtige Rolle fur deren Einbettungsverhalten. Konkret wird gezeigt, dass Polysemie mit struktureller Ambiguität als Kontroll- vs. Anhebungsverb assoziiert sein kann (Beispiel drohen/versprechen) und dass NEG-Raising auf bestimmte Lesarten eines polysemen Verbs beschränkt sein kann. Des Weiteren wird beleuchtet, welche Faktoren die syntaktische Flexibilität satzeinbettender Prädikate, d.h. das Einbettungspotenzial bzgl. der wichtigsten Satzkomplementtypen des Deutschen, begünstigen und welche Rolle dabei Umdeutungen (z.B. von bedauern zu 'mit Bedauern äußern'), die Polysemie induzieren, spielen. Alle betrachteten Phänomene deuten darauf hin, dass sie S-Selektion (semantische Selektion) eine zentrale Rolle in der Satzeinbettung spielt.
Deutsche Partikelverben repräsentieren eine äußerst produktive Klasse von komplexen Verben im Lexikon, die sich durch idiosynkratische Eigenschaften auf der Syntax-Semantik-Schnittstelle auszeichnet: Zum einen sind die abtrennbaren Partikeln extrem ambig. Zum anderen entstehen durch die Komposition von Partikel und Basisverb in Abhängigkeit von der semantischen Klasse des Basisverbs (reguläre) Verschiebungen bezüglich der Argumentstruktur und des Grades der Kompositionalität des Partikelverbs. In diesem Artikel stelle ich eine breite Auswahl von kognitiven und computerlinguistischen Studien vor, die verschiedene Perspektiven auf das Zusammenspiel von semantischen Verbklassen, Partikel-Bedeutungen sowie Argumentstruktur und Kompositionalität von Partikelverben ermöglichen.
Just like most varieties of West Germanic, virtually all varieties of German use a construction in which a cognate of the English verb 'do' (standard German 'tun') functions as an auxiliary and selects another verb in the bare infinitive, a construction known as 'do'-periphrasis or 'do'-support. The present paper provides an Optimality Theoretic (OT) analysis of this phenomenon. It builds on a previous analysis by Bader and Schmid (An OT-analysis of 'do'-support in Modern German, 2006) but (i) extends it from root clauses to subordinate clauses and (ii) aims to capture all of the major distributional patterns found across (mostly non-standard) varieties of German. In so doing, the data are used as a testing ground for different models of German clause structure. At first sight, the occurrence of 'do' in subordinate clauses, as found in many varieties, appears to support the standard CP-IP-VP analysis of German. In actual fact, however, the full range of data turn out to challenge, rather than support, this model. Instead, I propose an analysis within the IP-less model by Haider (Deutsche Syntax - generativ. Vorstudien zur Theorie einer projektiven Grammatik, Narr, Tübingen, 1993 et seq.). In sum, the 'do'-support data will be shown to have implications not only for the analysis of clause structure but also for the OT constraints commonly assumed to govern the distribution of 'do', for the theory of non-projecting words (Toivonen in Non-projecting words, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2003) as well as research on grammaticalization.
This paper discusses a specific subclass of English it-clefts posited in the theoretical literature, so-called predicational clefts. The main point of the paper is to show that there is no need to postulate such a separate class. Predicational clefts look special because of the narrow focus on the adjective within an indefinite pivot, but their special properties can all be derived from this narrow focus in a focus analysis in which it-clefts express contrasting focus. Contrasting focus means that besides the assertion of the proposition expressed in the cleft, there is one contrasting proposition which is excluded. The focus on the adjective in apparent predicational clefts gives rise to a narrow set of relevant alternatives, all of which differ only in the adjectival property within the pivot. The analysis developed here can account for many of the observations for apparent predicational clefts. Other properties are shown to be not conclusive. Thus, predicational clefts need not be considered a special subclass beyond their special focus characteristics.
We present a study on gaps in spoken language interaction as a potential candidate for syntactic boundaries. On the basis of an online annotation experiment, we can show that there is an effect of gap duration and gap type on its likelihood of being a syntactic boundary. We discuss the potential of these findings for an automation of the segmentation process.
Cet article propose un bref aperçu de l’état de l’art en syntaxe de l’allemand. Pour illustrer les évolutions théoriques et méthodologiques majeures, en rupture avec les approches traditionnelles, l’étude a sélectionné cinq points particuliers : la structure du groupe nominal, la syntaxe du verbe en lien avec la valence et les fonctions syntaxiques, les diathèses, les constructions infinitives et la structure de la phrase sous l’angle de la position du verbe et de ses implications syntaxiques.
The paper describes preliminary studies regarding the usage of Example-Based Querying for specialist corpora. We outline an infrastructure for its application within the linguistic domain. Example-Based Querying deals with retrieval situations where users would like to explore large collections of specialist texts semantically, but are unable to explicitly name the linguistic phenomenon they look for. As a way out, the proposed framework allows them to input prototypical everyday language examples or cases of doubt, which are automatically processed by CRF and linked to appropriate linguistic texts in the corpus.
Inneres Objekt
(2018)