Beers, kaffi, and Schnaps : different grammatical options for 'restaurant talk' coercions in three Germanic languages
- This paper discusses constructions like “We’ll have two beers and a coffee.” that are typically used for beverage orders in restaurant contexts. We compare the behaviour of nouns in these constructions in three Germanic languages, English, Icelandic, and German, and take a closer look at the correlation of the morpho-syntactic and semantic-conceptual changes involved here. We show that even within such a closely related linguistic sample, one finds three different grammatical options for the expression of the same conceptual transition. Our findings suggest an analysis of coercion as a genuinely semantic phenomenon, a phenomenon that is located on a level of semantic representations that serves as an interface between the conceptual and the grammatical system and takes into account inter- and intralinguistic variations.
| Author: | Heike WieseORCiDGND, Joan Maling |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1137067 |
| URL: | http://www.uni-potsdam.de/u/germanistik/fachgebiete/geg-spr/pdfs/WieseMaling2005.pdf |
| Parent Title (German): | Journal of Germanic linguistics |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2009/11/10 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2005 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2009/11/10 |
| GND Keyword: | Lexikologie; Pragmalinguistik |
| Volume: | 17.2005 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 38 |
| Source: | http://www.uni-potsdam.de/u/germanistik/fachgebiete/geg-spr/pdfs/WieseMaling2005.pdf ; (in:) Journal of Germanic linguistics, 2005, 17, 1, S. 1-38 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 220425167 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Germanistik / GiNDok |
| Linguistik | |
| BDSL-Klassifikation: | 02.00.00 Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft (in Auswahl) / BDSL-Klassifikation: 02.00.00 Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft > 02.02.00 Studien |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
