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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Modality and Diachronic Construction Grammar |
| Editors | Martin Hilpert, Bert Cappelle, Ilse Depraetere |
| Place of Publication | Amsterdam, Philadelphia |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Pages | 81-122 |
| Number of pages | 42 |
| ISBN (electronic) | 9789027259004 |
| ISBN (print) | 9789027209498 |
| Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Publication series
| Name | Constructional Approaches to Language |
|---|---|
| Volume | 32 |
| ISSN (Print) | 1573-594X |
Abstract
This paper investigates synchronic variation in the lexical and grammatical environments of the German lexical verb verdienen 'earn', 'deserve'. In its lexical uses, verdienen co-occurs with an object noun phrase whose head is either concrete (e.g. Geld 'money') or, more commonly, abstract (e.g. Beachtung 'attention'). When it is used more grammatically with deontic modal meaning, verdienen is followed by a passive or active infinitive. This paper uses collostructional analyses to contrast lexical and grammatical uses in terms of the most strongly attracted lexical items, which are grouped into semantic classes. The results reflect different degrees of host-class expansion (cf. Himmelmann 2004), whereby the collexemes of verdienen expand from concrete to abstract and their morpho-syntactic contexts from nominal to infinitival complement and subsequently from passive to active. Synchronic distribution can thus serve as a window on diachronic development (Kuteva 2001), in this case the rise of a deontic modality marker.
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- Language and Linguistics
- Social Sciences(all)
- Linguistics and Language
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Modality and Diachronic Construction Grammar. ed. / Martin Hilpert; Bert Cappelle; Ilse Depraetere. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021. p. 81-122 (Constructional Approaches to Language; Vol. 32).
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T1 - Grammaticalization of verdienen into an auxiliary marker of deontic modality
T2 - An item-driven usage-based approach
AU - Diewald, Gabriele
AU - Dekalo, Volodymyr
AU - Czicza, Dániel
PY - 2021
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N2 - This paper investigates synchronic variation in the lexical and grammatical environments of the German lexical verb verdienen 'earn', 'deserve'. In its lexical uses, verdienen co-occurs with an object noun phrase whose head is either concrete (e.g. Geld 'money') or, more commonly, abstract (e.g. Beachtung 'attention'). When it is used more grammatically with deontic modal meaning, verdienen is followed by a passive or active infinitive. This paper uses collostructional analyses to contrast lexical and grammatical uses in terms of the most strongly attracted lexical items, which are grouped into semantic classes. The results reflect different degrees of host-class expansion (cf. Himmelmann 2004), whereby the collexemes of verdienen expand from concrete to abstract and their morpho-syntactic contexts from nominal to infinitival complement and subsequently from passive to active. Synchronic distribution can thus serve as a window on diachronic development (Kuteva 2001), in this case the rise of a deontic modality marker.
AB - This paper investigates synchronic variation in the lexical and grammatical environments of the German lexical verb verdienen 'earn', 'deserve'. In its lexical uses, verdienen co-occurs with an object noun phrase whose head is either concrete (e.g. Geld 'money') or, more commonly, abstract (e.g. Beachtung 'attention'). When it is used more grammatically with deontic modal meaning, verdienen is followed by a passive or active infinitive. This paper uses collostructional analyses to contrast lexical and grammatical uses in terms of the most strongly attracted lexical items, which are grouped into semantic classes. The results reflect different degrees of host-class expansion (cf. Himmelmann 2004), whereby the collexemes of verdienen expand from concrete to abstract and their morpho-syntactic contexts from nominal to infinitival complement and subsequently from passive to active. Synchronic distribution can thus serve as a window on diachronic development (Kuteva 2001), in this case the rise of a deontic modality marker.
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