TY  - CHAP
A1  - Grimm, Scott
T1  - An empirical view on raising to subject
T2  - Papers from the linguistics laboratory / Melanie Weirich & Stefanie Jannedy (ed.), Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, 2010; ZASPil Vol. 52, S. 83-106
N2  - This paper employs empirical methods to examine verbs such as seem, for which the traditional raising to subject analysis relates pairs of sentences which differ by taking an infinitival or sentential complement. A corpus-driven investigation of the verbs seem and appear demonstrates that information structure and evidentiality both play a determinate role in the choice between infinitival or sentential complementation. The second half of the paper builds upon the corpus results and examines the implications for the standard claims concerning these constructions. First, pairs of sentences related by the subject-to-subject raising analysis of verbs are often viewed as equivalent. New evidence from indefinite generic subjects shows that whether an indefinite generic subject occurs in the infinitival or sentential complement construction leads to truth-conditional differences. Further implications are explored for the claim that subjects of the infinitival variant may take narrow-scope: once various confounds are controlled for, the subject of the infinitival construction is shown to most naturally take wide-scope.
KW  - Lexikologie
KW  - Verb
KW  - Referenzsemantik
KW  - Modalität
KW  - Objektsatz
KW  - Informationsstruktur
KW  - Skopus
KW  - Infinitkonstruktion
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/31040
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-310408
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/1036.html
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 52
SP  - 83
EP  - 109
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
CY  - Berlin
ER  -