Überlegungen zu zwei Unterschieden zwischen der Mittelkonstruktion des Deutschen, Englischen und Niederländischen

Oya, Toshiaki

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“…Steinbach (2002: 46 ff. ), for instance, notes that the English reflexive cannot be used as a middle marker at all (on our use of the notion 'middle', see section 3.1), whereas both Dutch and German allow the weak reflexive zich/sich in so-called anticausative constructions, see (4), and only German has reflexive sich in facilitative constructions of the type illustrated in (5) (for similar observations, see also Oya 2002Oya , 2003.…”

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Analogues of the way-construction in German and Dutch: another Germanic sandwich?

Mortelmans¹,

Смирнова²

2020

German and Dutch in Contrast

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This paper addresses the English way-construction [SUBJ i V POSS i way OBL] and its reflexive analogues in German and Dutch. We argue that the different constructions are best compared using conceptual terms describing middle situations in the domain of autocausative motion (Kemmer 1993). Two dimensions are especially important: path traversal and goal-directedness (or telicity). It will be shown that way-constructions and their analogues can be arranged along these dimensions. Moreover, there is a general parallel tendency for newer constructions to occupy the domain of 'path traversal'. In English, this development has resulted in the way-construction being dominant at the cost of the historically prior reflexive resultative construction. In Dutch, the weg-construction, which expresses path-traversal, competes with the more generally established Transitionto-Location Construction, which specialises in the expression of telic transition of location. In German, finally, there is no schematic Weg-construction: the entire conceptual space of autocausative motion is covered by reflexive constructions-either instantiations of a more general reflexive construction [SUBJ V sich OBL] or inherently reflexive verbs. Zusammenfassung: Der vorliegende Beitrag behandelt die englische way-Konstruktion [SUBJ i V POSS i way OBL] und die äquivalenten Reflexivkonstruktionen des Deutschen und des Niederländischen. Es wird gezeigt, dass sich diese unterschiedlichen Konstruktionen am besten mithilfe von Kategorien vergleichen lassen, die für die Beschreibung von Medialsituationen im Bereich der autokausativen Bewegung entwickelt wurden (Kemmer 1993). Vor allem zwei Dimensionen erweisen sich dabei als wichtig: Zurücklegen eines Pfades und Zielgerichtetheit (oder Telizität). Außerdem wird gezeigt, dass die way-Konstruktionen und ihre Äquivalente entlang dieser Dimensionen geordnet werden können und dass jüngere Konstruktionen dazu neigen, zunächst die Domäne des 'Zurücklegens eines Pfades' zu besetzen. Im Englischen hat dies dazu geführt, dass die way-Konstruktion die historisch ältere reflexive Resultativkonstruktion weitgehend verdrängt hat. Im Niederländischen befindet sich die weg-Konstruktion, die das Zurücklegen eines Pfades ausdrückt, in Konkurrenz mit einer bereits etablierten Konstruktion, die auf den Ausdruck eines telischen Ortswechsels spezialisiert ist. Im Deutschen gibt es schließlich keine schematische Weg-Konstruktion: Hier wird Open Access.

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Analogues of the way-construction in German and Dutch: another Germanic sandwich?

Mortelmans¹,

Смирнова²

2020

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“…In German, there is a surprising gap in anticausative marking with the meaning "break." In this case, one can refer to Oya (2003), who observes a general tendency in German for achievements to be expressed by labile verbs. If this is true, then achievements such as (zer)brechen ("break") can never be expected to show anticausative marking, and this situation is independent of the degree of spontaneity of the event that is denoted.…”

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An Alternative Analysis of Marginal Modals

Machová¹

Language Use and Linguistic Structure

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OLOMOUC MODERN LANGUAGE SERIES (OMLS) publishes peer-reviewed proceedings from selected conferences on linguistics, literature, and translation studies held at Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. AcknowledgementsThe editors are indebted to all those who have helped make this monograph possible. First and foremost, we would like to thank all the authors for both their enthusiastic participation in the conference and their cooperation in the editorial process. We would also like to express gratitude to our colleagues and students from the Philosophical Faculty of Palacký University, Olomouc, for their efforts related to the organization of the OLINCO 2013 conference and the subsequent publishing activities. We greatly appreciate the assistance of Simon Gill, Markéta Gregorová, Eva Nováková, and Jeffrey Parrot, without whose tireless devotion to the editing work the monograph would never have come into existence. Apart from the support of the Department of English and American Studies, the Philosophical Faculty and Palacký University, all of which were indispensable, we have also benefited from the generous support of ESF grant CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0061 (Language Diversity and Communication), financed by the European Union and the Czech Republic. This grant was used to cover a substantial part of the financial costs of the conference in situ, as well as the demanding editing and publishing process.And finally we would like to express our immense gratitude to all the reviewers who devotedly participated in the process of accepting and reviewing the papers for the conference and later another round of the peer-reviewing process for the proceedings. Special thanks are also due to Professor Jürgen Weissenborn of Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, for the overall review of the proceedings. Joseph Emonds Markéta Janebová IntroductionThe articles in this volume are based on papers and posters presented at the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (OLINCO) at Palacký University in the Czech Republic in June 2013. This conference welcomed papers that combined analyses of language structure with generalizations about language use. The essays here represent, we think, the best of the conference contributions (together with those selected among them for a separate themed monograph entitled Nominal Structures: All in Complex DPs). All these papers have been doubly reviewed, with one reviewer always external to Palacký University, and revised on the basis of these reviews.The sections of this volume roughly represent the different sections for papers presented at OLINCO, but the groupings in the Table of Contents have been determined, in the final analysis, by their subject matter rather than by a priori "areas." Because the papers on noun phrase structure have been grouped in a separate volume, the grammatical essays appearing here focus on the verb phrase and clausal structure, and have then been divided according to which of these latter two domains figures more prominently in any given paper. Grammar of the Left Peripher...

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On the Cross-Linguistic Predictability of Functionally Equivalent Structures: Decausativization in French and German as a Test Case for Formal and Functional Grammars1

Wagner¹

Language Use and Linguistic Structure

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Überlegungen zu zwei Unterschieden zwischen der Mittelkonstruktion des Deutschen, Englischen und Niederländischen

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Analogues of the way-construction in German and Dutch: another Germanic sandwich?

Analogues of the way-construction in German and Dutch: another Germanic sandwich?

An Alternative Analysis of Marginal Modals

On the Cross-Linguistic Predictability of Functionally Equivalent Structures: Decausativization in French and German as a Test Case for Formal and Functional Grammars1

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