Why a folder lies in the basket although it is not lying
The semantics and use of German positional verbs with inanimate Figures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10293100 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Silvia Kutscher, Eva Schultze-Berndt (0000-0002-8506-0541) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 5part6 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ling.2007.030 |
| OpenAlex | W2135365427 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 1 |
In this paper we will investigate the meaning and use of positional verbs in colloquial Standard German. Positional verbs are defined as those verbs which may appear in the basic construction that functions as an answer to a “where”-question, the so-called Basic Locative Construction (BLC). Within this class of verbs, we focus on those positionals which are used to describe the configuration of inanimate movable objects. We will demonstrate that German exhibits the characteristics of a positional (or “multiverb”) language, i.e., a language that uses a comparatively large set of verbs in the BLC. The ten positionals used most frequently in our data are stehen ‘stand’, liegen ‘lie’, hängen ‘hang’, lehnen ‘lean’, stecken ‘be in tight fit, be stuck’, klemmen ‘be stuck, be jammed’, kleben ‘stick by means of glue’, haften ‘adhere’, schwimmen ‘be afloat in liquid’, and schweben ‘be afloat’. We will identify the conditions under which the positional verbs are used and provide a semantic characterization for each of them, paying particular attention to alternative categorizations, fuzzy boundaries and prototype effects
Class (philosophy) · Focus (optics) · German · Linguistics · Locative case · Meaning (existential) · Natural language processing · Programming language · Semantics (computer science) · Set (abstract data type) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Linguistic Education and Pedagogy · Linguistic research and analysis · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2023 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |