Causatives in German
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20364930 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lutz Gunkel (0000-0002-0669-300X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theoretical Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0301-4428 • E-ISSN: 1613-4060 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/thli.1999.25.2-3.133 |
| OpenAlex | W2094339252 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
this paper I am going to propose a unified analysis of both types of causative construction. The analysis is couched in the HPSG framework (cf. Pollard & Sag 1987; 1994) and builds in some relevant respects on the paper by Heinz & Matiasek (1994). I will show that the difference between both types of construction can be treated as an instance of optional subcategorization. The basic 65 1 I would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their comments on an earlier draft of this paper. 2 Note that I will call `causee' any subject argument of the embedded verb irrespective of its thematic role. idea is that lassen optionally subcategorizes for an "external" or "designated" argument of the embedded verb which is omitted in causative passives. The analysis therefore contrasts with alternative approaches that postulate a special kind of passive infinitive for causative passives (cf. Reis 1976, Comrie 1976, Kunze 1996, Zifonun/Hoffmann/Strecker et al. 1997). The paper is organized as follows: In section 2 I will discuss and finally dismiss an alternative approach to causative passives in German. Section 3 introduces some basic assumptions regarding the argument structure of finite and infinite verb forms in German. Section 4 deals with the argument structure of causative and causative-passive lassen and presents a single lexical entry that accounts for both construction types. Finally, in section 5 I will show that this analysis is not only compatible with a unified analysis of passive in German as developed in Heinz & Matiasek (1994), but also makes transparent the nature of causative passive as a combination of passive and causative. 2 A previous approach The analysis to be discussed in this section is in fact the most prominent and widely accepted one which has
Biology · Causative · German · Infinitive · Linguistics · Subcategorization · Verb · Computer Science · History · linguistics and terminology studies · Mathematics · Medicine · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |