The Ditransitive Alternation In Present Day German
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The Ditransitive Alternation In Present Day German
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Author : Hilde De Vaere
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2023-06-15
The Ditransitive Alternation In Present Day German written by Hilde De Vaere and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The ditransitive (or “dative”) alternation is a much-studied phenomenon in contemporary linguistics. This monograph is the first to address the alternation in present-day written German from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective. As well as providing a corpus-based analysis of extensively annotated data and detailed statistical information, the book also contributes to the theory of language by developing an alternative framework to existing investigations of the alternation. It is shown that the alternation can be accounted for in a comprehensive way by adopting a three-layer approach to meaning and sense based on the work of E. Coseriu and S. Levinson. In this approach, a construction’s language-specific encoded meaning is distinguished both from its conventional (“normal”) uses and its discourse-specific interpretations in particular contexts. The monograph is likely to attract attention from researchers in the fields of German and English linguistics, general and contrastive linguistics as well as linguistic theory.
The Diachrony Of Ditransitives
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Author : Chiara Fedriani
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-10-26
The Diachrony Of Ditransitives written by Chiara Fedriani and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
While ample studies exist on ditransitives in various languages, notably from a typological perspective, more work needs to be done on identifying the main processes and factors that trigger and constrain the changes they undergo over time. The goal of this volume is to help fill this gap by bringing together data and information on individual languages that have thus far been left out of the discussion and by expanding our knowledge of already studied linguistic traditions so as to achieve a broader diachronic description. Since one of the distinctive features of ditransitives is their synchronic variability in terms of structural alternation and alignment split, diachronic research can throw up new insights into developmental dynamics that are eminently complementary; namely, on the one hand, the emergence, development and loss of construction alternation and, on the other, the acquisition of new functions over time. The analyses offered in the book yield different and interconnected answers to the general question of how ditransitives change by drawing on different functional principles that play a role in the diachronic reorganization of this dynamic domain and by providing a number of original theoretical suggestions.
Ditransitives In Germanic Languages
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Author : Eva Zehentner
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2023-08-15
Ditransitives In Germanic Languages written by Eva Zehentner and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume brings together twelve empirical studies on ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages and their varieties, past and present. Specifically, the volume includes contributions on a wide variety of Germanic languages, including English, Dutch, and German, but also Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian, as well as lesser-studied ones such as Faroese. While the first part of the volume focuses on diachronic aspects, the second part showcases a variety of synchronic aspects relating to ditransitive patterns. Methodologically, the volume covers both experimental and corpus-based studies. Questions addressed by the papers in the volume are, among others, issues like the cross-linguistic pervasiveness and cognitive reality of factors involved in the choice between different ditransitive constructions, or differences and similarities in the diachronic development of ditransitives. The volume’s broad scope and comparative perspective offers comprehensive insights into well-known phenomena and furthers our understanding of variation across languages of the same family.
The Dative Alternation In The Interlanguage Of German Learners Of English
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Author : Miriam Fuehrer
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2009-06-07
The Dative Alternation In The Interlanguage Of German Learners Of English written by Miriam Fuehrer and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-07 with Literary Collections categories.
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1.0, University of Siegen, language: English, abstract: Would you say you ‘...gave a good friend a scarf’ or would you rather say you ‘...gave a scarf to a good friend’? The grammatical phenomenon underlying the two syntactic variants – the double object dative [a good friend] [a scarf] and the prepositional object dative [a scarf] [to a good friend] – is the so-called 'dative alternation' (DA). The latter term captures this general ability in English to express the same event of giving with two distinct syntactic structures. DA has been researched extensively for native speakers of English. Most of the scientific attention was directed at identifying the semantic and informational variables that give rise to the respective variants. Also, a number of corpus studies have revealed an interesting phenomenon commonly referred to as “lexical bias” (e.g. Wasow 2002). More precisely, researchers have found some dative verbs to occur more frequently in a prepositional dative variant (POD), whereas other dative verbs seem to favor the double object variant (DOD) (e.g. Davidse 1996; Stallings et al. 1998; Wasow 2002; Arnoldet al. 2003; Bresnan & Nikitina 2003). For example, Wasow (2002) found 'give' to occur in a DOD shape in 85% of his data, while Davidse (1996) found the verb 'throw' to occur in a POD shape in 90% of her data. While DA has been widely explored for native speakers of English, relatively little is known about it in contexts of SLA. This study investigates how DA is reflected in the IL of German learners of English and, additionally, whether German learners exhibit similar lexical biases in their choice of dative syntax. Raw data of early research on the acquisition of English DA by French native speakers (Mazurkevich 1984; Hawkins 1987) show similar lexical biases as observed for native speakers. This trend suggests that lexical biases are acquired by L2 learners of English. The latter is tested empirically in the present paper by means of a questionnaire study with 33 German-speaking learners of English. 16 American undergraduate students of the University of Montana serve as a control group. The data obtained from the experiment show a significant influence of verbal lexis on dative argument choice (p
Constructional Approaches To Syntactic Structures In German
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Author : Hans C. Boas
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2018-07-09
Constructional Approaches To Syntactic Structures In German written by Hans C. Boas and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book provides a state of the art collection of constructional research on syntactic structures in German. The volume is unique in that it offers an easily accessible, yet comprehensive and sophisticated variety of papers. Moreover, various of the papers make explicit connections between grammatical constructions and the concept of valency which has figured quite prominently in Germanic Linguistics over the past half century.
The Diachrony Of Ditransitives
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Author : Chiara Fedriani
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-10-26
The Diachrony Of Ditransitives written by Chiara Fedriani and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
While ample studies exist on ditransitives in various languages, notably from a typological perspective, more work needs to be done on identifying the main processes and factors that trigger and constrain the changes they undergo over time. The goal of this volume is to help fill this gap by bringing together data and information on individual languages that have thus far been left out of the discussion and by expanding our knowledge of already studied linguistic traditions so as to achieve a broader diachronic description. Since one of the distinctive features of ditransitives is their synchronic variability in terms of structural alternation and alignment split, diachronic research can throw up new insights into developmental dynamics that are eminently complementary; namely, on the one hand, the emergence, development and loss of construction alternation and, on the other, the acquisition of new functions over time. The analyses offered in the book yield different and interconnected answers to the general question of how ditransitives change by drawing on different functional principles that play a role in the diachronic reorganization of this dynamic domain and by providing a number of original theoretical suggestions.
Ditransitives In British English Dialects
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Author : Johanna Gerwin
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2014-06-23
Ditransitives In British English Dialects written by Johanna Gerwin and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
What determines whether we say She gave him a book instead of She gave a book to him? The author views this ‘dative alternation’ as a sociolinguistic variable and explores its distribution across different British English dialects, registers and time frames. It thereby offers a novel, language-external explanation of the choice of one construction over the other and sheds new light on British dialect syntax.
Regelbasierte Konstruktionsgrammatik
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Author : Marc Felfe
language : de
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-12-04
Regelbasierte Konstruktionsgrammatik written by Marc Felfe and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Konstruktionsgrammatik wird zumeist mit Begriffen wie Nichtkompositionalität (Idiomatizität), Lexik-Grammatik-Kontinuum, Netzwerk von Konstruktionen verbunden. Unberücksichtigt bleibt dabei die Musterbasiertheit der Konstruktionen und damit sprachliche Tätigkeit als Operieren über schematischen Konstruktionen (Konstruktionsmustern). Operationen wie Instantiierung und Fusion sind selbstverständlich regelhaft, wenn auch nicht im Sinne des traditionellen Regelbegriffs, in dem Regel an invariante Gültigkeit gebunden wird, sondern von Regelhaftigkeit im prototypentheoretischen Sinne. In den Beiträgen dieses Bandes werden anhand konkreter sprachlicher Phänomene theoretische Fragen der Form-Funktionsbeziehung innerhalb von Konstruktionen und zwischen Konstruktionen sowie empirische Aspekte der Ermittlung, des Erwerbs, der Vermittlung und des zwischensprachlichen Vergleichs von Konstruktionen diskutiert. Die gebrauchsbezogene Musterbasiertheit und Regelhaftigkeit sind ein gemeinsamer Ausgangspunkt der Beiträge. Die jeweilige Gewichtung der Form oder der Bedeutung oder des Verständnisses stehen zur Diskussion.
Whose German
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Author : Orrin W. Robinson
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2001
Whose German written by Orrin W. Robinson and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The author addresses a number of issues in German and general phonology, using a specific problem in German phonology (the ach/ich alternation) as a springboard. These issues include especially the naturalness, or lack thereof, of the prescriptive standard in German, and the importance of colloquial pronunciations, as well as historical and dialect evidence, for phonological analyses of the standard language. Other important topics include the phonetic and phonological status of German /r/, the phonetic and phonological representation of palatals, the status of loanwords in phonological description, and, especially as regards the latter, the usefulness of Optimality Theory in capturing phonological facts.The book addresses itself to scholars from the fields of German and Germanic linguistics, as well as those concerned more generally with theoretical phonology (whether Lexical or Optimal). It may even appeal to the orthoëpists and lexicographers of modern German.
Locative Alternation
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Author : Seizi Iwata
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2008-06-09
Locative Alternation written by Seizi Iwata and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The aim of the present volume is two-fold: to give a coherent account of the locative alternation in English, and to develop a constructional theory that overcomes a number of problems in earlier constructional accounts. The lexical-constructional account proposed here is characterized by two main features. On the one hand, it emphasizes the need for a detailed examination of verb meanings. On the other, it introduces lower-level constructions such as verb-class-specific constructions and verb-specific constructions, and makes full use of these lower-level constructions in accounting for alternation phenomena. Rather than being a completely new version of construction grammar, the proposed lexical-constructional account is an automatic consequence of the basic tenet of constructional approaches as being usage-based.