he paper investigates the meaning variation of the German movement verb steigen ('climb'/'rise'). Three major uses are contrasted within a frame-based analysis: steigen as a verb of manner of motion, as a verb of directed movement and as an intensional verb. The modeling in terms of Barsalou frames, i. e., in terms of functional attributes and their values, allows an explicit account of the correlations that hold among subevents, manner, positions and the overall path traversed by the theme argument, and yields a representation of the event structure and the argument structure with exible granularity. By investigating the variation in the attribute structure of the verb steigen in the extensional and intensional uses we give an analysis that captures the relation between the uses as a transfer of the relevant attributes from verb-frame-internal attributes in the extensional use to verb frame-external attributes which are realized by functional nouns such as Temperatur 'temperature' in the intensional use. Thereby, we o er an account of the polysemy of steigen which goes beyond the usual picture of a metaphor. The research presented in this paper was supported by the CRC 991, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Moreover, we are grateful to three anonymous reviewers for their insightful questions and valuable suggestions.
In this paper we discuss the class of stative dimensional verbs. Stative verbs of this type such as German wiegen 'weigh' and heißen 'be called' encode a dimension such as weight and name and additionally allow for the specification of a value along this dimension. We present frame analyses of posture verbs such as liegen 'lie' and stimulus subject perception verbs such as klingen 'sound', which constitute two prominent subclasses of German SDVs. We argue that a proper account of both types of SDVs requires explicit reference to the encoded dimension. It will be shown that frame representations are especially apt for that purpose since SDVs can easily be translated into attribute-value pairs, which are the building units of frames.
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