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 |