Kasus im Deutschen und Englischen

Czepluch, Hartmut

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“…The animacy of a noun's referent is a semantic (and possibly conceptual) property that is expressed differently across languages. Animacy is reflected, for example, in the choice of interrogative pronouns (English who or German wer for animates, but English what or German was for inanimates), number marking (Croft 1990;Corbett 2000;Haspelmath 2013) or case marking (in Differential Object Marking languages, in which morphologically overt object marking is obligatory for one semantic class of objects, but not for another one -the semantic property requiring overt marking often being animacy or humanness; see, e.g., Bossong 1985;Naess 2004). Based on observations from corpus linguistics and typology (Silverstein 1976;Bossong 1985;Comrie 1989;Dixon 1994;Aissen 2003;Jäger 2004;Dahl 2008;Malchukov 2008), sentences with an animate subject and an inanimate object are often considered the "most natural" transitive constructions in psycholinguistics.…”

Section: Argument Animacymentioning

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Lexical case marking affects the processing of animacy in simple verbs, but not particle verbs: Evidence from event-related potentials

Czypionka

Eulitz

2018

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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In case-marking languages like German, nonstandard nominative-dative verbs lead to enhanced processing costs. So far, it is unclear if these case-marking effects reflect the special syntax or semantics of nominative-dative verbs. We present the results of two ERP experiments aimed to disentangle semantic and syntactic contributions to lexical case-marking by manipulating object animacy and case-marking for two verb types: simple verbs (nonstandard syntax and semantics for nominative-dative verbs) and particle verbs (nonstandard semantics only). Simple nominative-dative verbs show effects of case-marking, and no animacy effects. Particle verbs show no effects of case-marking, and animacy effects for nominative-accusative and nominative-dative verbs. Our findings suggest that lexical case-marking effects reflect the special syntax, rather than semantics, of simple nominative-dative verbs.

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Section: Argument Animacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Lexical case marking affects the processing of animacy in simple verbs, but not particle verbs: Evidence from event-related potentials

Czypionka

Eulitz

2018

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Being as big as small clauses get: the syntax of participial adjuncts in German and English

Brodahl

2022

J Comp German Linguistics

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This paper presents a comparative syntactic account of participial adjuncts in German and English. While the typological literature describes German participial adjuncts as much more restricted than their English counterparts both syntactically and semantically, this paper presents empirical evidence that these differences have been exaggerated. Based on a corpus of more than 3000 participial adjuncts, it is argued that these adjuncts have a clause-like internal structure in both languages. Participial adjuncts are analysed as small clauses that can project all the way up to CP level, with a subject that is either phonetically null PRO controlled via Agree or an overt DP that is case licensed either by an element outside the participial clause or through default case. At the same time, the corpus data show that these participial constructions constitute a versatile group of adjuncts when it comes to their argument-structural properties and categorial nature. An analysis couched within the framework of Distributed Morphology is presented that can account for this diversity. This empirically based and theoretically founded account of participial adjuncts contributes to our understanding of the structural possibilities of small clauses cross-linguistically.

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Case in Germanic

McFadden¹

2020

The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics

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Kasus im Deutschen und Englischen

Cited by 10 publications

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Lexical case marking affects the processing of animacy in simple verbs, but not particle verbs: Evidence from event-related potentials

Lexical case marking affects the processing of animacy in simple verbs, but not particle verbs: Evidence from event-related potentials

Being as big as small clauses get: the syntax of participial adjuncts in German and English

Case in Germanic

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