TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rapp, Irene
A1  - Riecker, Susanne
A1  - Brockmann, Saskia
A1  - Fortmann, Christian
A1  - Bozenhard, Jonas
T1  - Bare root infinitives in German: facets of meaning in poetry and non-literary discourse
T2  - International journal of literary linguistics : IJLL
N2  - The aim of this article is to show how linguistic and literary studies can benefit from the joint analysis of linguistic structures in poetry. Firstly, the analysis of poetry has an important impact on linguistic theory as it leads our attention to specific structures and meanings that so far have not been considered. Secondly, a close linguistic analysis can reveal hitherto overlooked facets of meaning which have a great significance for the overall interpretation of a poem. We focus on Bare Root Infinitives (BRIs) in German. As they lack the features for tense, mood, person and number, they are more flexible in meaning than finite forms. When looking at poetry, besides the well-known deontic and bouletic meanings (cf. Reis 1995, 2003; Gärtner 2014) a third meaning that we call reactive meaning stands out. Remarkably, this reactive meaning can also be found in everyday language. Its specific semantic properties show that a semantic analysis of BRIs in the style of Kaufmann (2012) is adequate: modality, but not non-referentiality, is a grammatically given semantic property of BRIs. The specific case study of the poem ‘muster fixieren’ (‘fixing patterns’) by Nico Bleutge reveals how the restricted context of the poem interacts with the different interpretations of BRIs, resulting in a complex interpretation of the text.
KW  - pragmatic enrichment
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/69143
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-691436
UR  - https://journals.linguistik.de/ijll/article/view/133
SN  - 2194-5594
VL  - 10
IS  - 2
SP  - 1
EP  - 24
PB  - Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
CY  - Mainz
ER  -