Causatives in German
- In this paper I argue for a unified account of causative constructions in German. The approach rests on assumptions for case assignment and subcategorization which will be independently motivated by an analysis of passive constructions. It will be shown that the difference between standard causatives and what I call causative passives should be analyzed as a special case of optional subcategorization: causative lassen optionally subcategorizes for an external argument of the embedded verb, the non-realization of which leads to a causative passive. The adoption of a (synthetic) passive bare infinitive, as advocated for in the literature, can thus be dispensed with. Instead, causative passive can be shown to function like a combination of causative and passive, thereby creating a "passivelike" structural context.
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| Author: | Lutz Gunkel |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-8226 |
| ISSN: | 0301-4428 |
| Parent Title (German): | Theoretical linguistics : an open peer review journal |
| Publisher: | de Gruyter |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | German |
| Year of first Publication: | 1999 |
| Tag: | Kausativa |
| GND Keyword: | Deutsch; Verb |
| Volume: | 25 |
| Page Number: | 27 |
| First Page: | 133 |
| Last Page: | 159 |
| Note: | Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 430 Deutsch |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| BDSL-Classification: | Grammatik |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Grammatikforschung |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0 Deutschland |