Nominalization and argument structure in early new high german
- Recent work on argument selection couched in a lexical decomposition approach (Ehrich & Rapp 2000) postulates different linking properties for verbs and nouns, challenging current views on argument inheritance. In this paper, I show that the different behavior with respect to verbal and nominal linking observed for Present-Day German does not carry over to ung-nominals in Early New High German. Deverbal nouns and corresponding verbs rather behave alike with respect to argument linking. I shall argue that this change is motivated by the growing rift between ung-nominals and their verbal bases both focussing on different parts oftheir lexicosemantic structure in Present-Day German. Evidence for the verb-like behavior of ung-nominals in Early New High German comes from the regular meaning relation between verbs and corresponding derived nouns, the actional properties of event-denoting nouns, and the patterning of ung-nominals with nominalized infinitives. Even their syntactic behavior reflects the verbal character of ung-nominals during that period of the German language. The diachronic facts can be accounted for in a straightforward way once we adopt a lexical decomposition approach to argument selection.
Author: | Ulrike Demske |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-308328 |
URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/fileadmin/material/ZASPiL_Volltexte/zp27/zaspil27-demske.pdf |
ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
Parent Title (English): | Nominalizations / Ed. by Ewald Lang ; Ilse Zimmermann Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2002; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 27 |
Publisher: | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung |
Place of publication: | Berlin |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2013/11/14 |
Year of first Publication: | 2002 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2013/11/14 |
GND Keyword: | Nominalisierung; Semantik; Frühneuhochdeutsch |
Volume: | 27 |
Page Number: | 24 |
First Page: | 67 |
Last Page: | 90 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 381233804 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 43 Deutsch, germanische Sprachen allgemein / 430 Germanische Sprachen; Deutsch |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Semantik / Semantics |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: Grammatikforschung / Grammar research | |
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPIL 27 = Nominalisations |
: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306688 |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |