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The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the topics and recent developments in the research on the morphosyntax of proper names. The article reflects on the ways in which and the reasons why proper names may be morphosyntactically different from common nouns. It argues that the distinction between proper names and proper nouns is essentia...
The relation between word-formation and syntax and whether they form distinct domains of grammar or not has been discussed controversially in different theoretical frameworks. The answer to this question is closely connected to the languages under discussion, among other things, because languages seem to differ considerably in this regard. The disc...
The paper discusses how language contact and borrowing can be established as a critical factor of quantitative and/or qualitative changes of abstract grammatical patterns, in particular if languages are genetically and areally closely related and thus structurally similar. More specifically, it deals with the question of whether the word-formation...
Compounding is a frequent and productive word-formation pattern in all Germanic languages. It is a pattern that links an overtly simple grammatical form to a rich semantic-conceptual structure. Overall, there are rather few restrictions on the formation of compounds, and units of various word classes can serve as constituents in compounds. Both det...
Adjectives with the borrowed head constituent like are a previously undescribed phenomenon in German. This corpus-based study shows that they occur frequently in certain text sources and analyses them as a productive word-formation pattern. The article describes the morphological, syntactic, graphemic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of these ad...
Being creative with language means doing something in a new way that has some advantage for conveying socio-pragmatic, contextual, or lexical information. The paper discusses two name-based and name-related lexical patterns in German that exemplify the interplay between creative language use and routine in word formation. Both patterns are instance...
The paper presents a corpus-based comparative study of denominal adjectives in Dutch, German, and English. It aims at clarifying the notion of approximation. More specifically, it focuses on investigating the relation between approximation and comparison as semantic categories in word-formation. Drawing on equivalent patterns, we study both the rel...
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Beiträge zur Namenforschung 57(4): 491-497;
https://bnf.winter-verlag.de/article/BNF/2022/4/9
to appear in: Kürschner, S.; Dammel, A. (eds.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Germanic Languages (Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics). Oxford University Press.
Despite their high frequency in present-day language, German proper name compounds have received little attention in the linguistic literature. It has been assumed that this pattern is rather recent, and possibly a loan from English. Focusing on the period between 1600 and 1900, the paper provides evidence against this claim. More specifically, I a...
The relation between word-formation and syntax and whether they form distinct domains of grammar or not has been discussed controversially in different theoretical frameworks. The answer to this question is closely connected to the languages under discussion, among other things, because languages seem to differ considerably in this regard. The disc...
This volume deals with compounds (e. g., boat house, softball) and multi-word expressions (piece of cake, dry cough) in European languages. Compounds and multi-word expressions (henceforth MWEs) are similar as they are both lexical units and complex, made up of at least two constituents. The most basic difference between compounds and MWEs seems to...
This chapter reviews multi-word expressions, compounds, and their mutual relation regarding their status in grammar and lexicon in contemporary German. Both multi-word expressions and compounds are lexical units and morphosyntactically complex. That is, they are made up of a minimum of two words or stems, which sets them apart both from simplex lex...
Both compounds and multi-word expressions are complex lexical units, made up of at least two constituents. The most basic difference is that the former are morphological objects and the latter result from syntactic processes. However, the exact demarcation between compounds and multi-word expressions differs greatly from language to language and is...
This paper deals with an issue related to the syntax-morphology interface, namely the comparison of proper name compounds and genitives in German. It has been claimed in the literature that proper name compounds have recently increased in use at the expense of the genitive. For this reason, proper name compounds are sometimes considered as competit...
This paper investigates the effect of the mode of reception (listening vs. reading) on the comprehension of literary texts of different degrees of linguistic complexity in German, testing schoolchildren in Grade 8. To this end, two texts were used: the grammatically and lexically comparatively more complex novella Das Erdbeben in Chili by Heinrich...
Der vorliegende Beitrag behandelt substantivische Eigennamenkomposita wie Mozartkugel, Beethovenstraße, Martinsgans, Guttenberg-Affäre, Marc-Jacobs-Kampagne, Riesterrente, Merkel-Besuch und Berlin-Konzert. Als Eigennamenkomposita werden hier, wie die Beispiele zeigen, nominale Komposita bezeichnet, die aus einem einfachen oder komplexen Eigennamen...
Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, ob die Präsentation eines literarischen Textes als Hörbuch gegenüber der zu lesenden Textfassung die Motivation steigert, über den vorliegenden Auszug hinaus weiterzulesen/zu hören. Im Folgenden werden wir, nach einer kurzen Begriffsbestimmung, den Forschungsstand zum Hörbuch darstellen und dabei unser Hauptaugenm...
This chapter discusses the semantics of adjective-noun compounding within the framework of Parallel Architecture as developed in Jackendoff (1997; 2002; 2010a). More specifically, the paper builds on the analysis of English noun-noun compounds proposed in Jackendoff (2009; 2010b). While the issue of adjective-noun compounding relates for the most p...
http://link.springer.com/journal/11525/26/2/
Multi-word expressions (MWEs) are complex lexical units, for example verbal idioms ('bite the bullet') or frozen adverbials ('all at once'). Others, such as particle verbs ('stick out') or complex nominals ('day-care center'), indicate a close relationship between MWEs and word-formation units. Focusing on this relation, the present article discuss...
This work discusses the relationship between word formation, syntax, and lexicon based on an examination of adjective-noun compounds and phrases in German and in German-Dutch comparison. It describes the semantic and morphosyntactic features of such compounds from a construction grammar perspective. The analysis specifically focuses on the ways tha...
This paper explores the semantics of German A+N compounds as opposed to A+N phrases. Taking into account various data, the paper shows that in their semantics, German A+N compounds are far from being simple or consistent. The main claim is that there are systematic meaning differences between lexical and syntactic adjectival modification but that t...
It is widely acknowledged in the literature that the common function of the modifier in nominal compounds is the classifying function. Classifying modifiers specify what kind of entity is being denoted by the head noun, that is, they specify subkinds; e.g. apple juice 'a kind of juice made from apples'. While the classifying function can certainly...
Die Komposition nimmt eine zentrale Position in der Wortbildung (nicht nur) der germanischen Sprachen ein und gilt insbesondere im Deutschen als hochproduktives Wortbildungsmuster. Trotz der Fülle an Literatur zur Komposition im Allgemeinen stellt jedoch eine umfassende Auseinandersetzung und Darstellung der Komposition im Deutschen in der aktuelle...
In German (and other Germanic languages) both phrases and compounds are used as names for concepts (e.g. Rotwein 'red wine', grüner Daumen 'green thumb/green fingers'). This study examines such kind-referring German A+N compounds and phrases. Whereas it is a widely accepted fact that compounds are inherently suitable for kind reference (or " naming...
This paper deals with compounding in Dutch and German. After giving an overview of the forms and subclasses of compounds in present-day Dutch and German, we discuss A+N-compounds and N+past participle-compounds in two case studies in order to explore divergence and convergence in the word formation of both languages. We argue that although Contrast...
In this paper we examine the semantic and pragmatic properties of German A+N compounds and the corresponding phrases (e.g. 'Altpapier' vs. 'altes Papier'). We argue that, although there is a clear and unambiguous formal difference between compounds and phrases in German, no such distinction can be made concerning their semantics and pragmatics. For...
In the closely related languages German and Dutch, the passive is, not surprisingly, realized in a similar way: both German and Dutch use the two passive auxiliaries (German) 'werden', (Dutch) 'worden' (‘become’) and (German) 'sein', (Dutch) 'zijn' (‘be’) in conjunction with the past participle. Despite this striking equivalence, a closer look reve...
This paper addresses the question whether the German copular verbs bleiben (,remain' ) and werden (,become' ) can be adequately described in terms of duality, as proposed by Löbner (1990). It is argued that bleiben and werden contrary to Löbner's proposal are not duals, on the basis of two main arguments: First, apparently equivalent copular constr...
Aus der Gruppe der deutschen Kopulaverben sein, werden und bleiben hat die Kopula bleiben in der Literatur vergleichweise wenig Beachtung erfahren. Der vorliegende Beitrag, der sich mit ihrer Bedeutung auseinandersetzt, will dazu beitragen, diese Lücke zu füllen. Gleichzeitig versteht sich die vorliegende Analyse auch als ein exemplarischer Bei-tra...
In dieser Monographie wird eine semantische Analyse von 'bleiben' entwickelt, die die Wechselwirkung zwischen Lexikon und Diskurs in den Mittelpunkt stellt. Die Untersuchung ist als Fallstudie zu verstehen, bei der exemplarisch anhand von 'bleiben' für eine systematische Berücksichtigung von Kontext- und Diskurswissen im Lexikon argumentiert wird....
In Dutch as well as in German the group of verbs known as copular verbs proper constists of ‘worden’/‘werden’ (‘become’), ‘zijn’/‘sein’ (‘be’) and ‘blijven’/‘bleiben’ (‘remain’). Whereas the former two have been discussed in the literature quite often, ‘blijven’/‘bleiben’ rarely has been subject to lingustic analysis. According to general opinion,...
The claim that the German Zustandspassiv is not a voice-category but should be analyzed as a copular construction raises the question of how to explain the occurence of event-related modifiers within these constructions. It is argued that event-related modifiers should not be analyzed as a uniform group, and that their admissibility (or unadmissibi...
The German copular verb bleiben (" to remain ") is supposed to denote the continuation of a state. In this paper, I will argue that bleiben has next to that reading another reading, too, where it denotes a change of state and which seems to be equivalent to werden (" to become "). The aim of this paper is to present an event structure for bleiben w...
AG-Abstract Die Komposition ist ein hochproduktiver Wortbildungsprozess des Deutschen, zumindest im Be-reich der nominalen Komposition. Weit weniger deutlich ist jedoch, wo die Grenzen zu anderen Wortbildungsmustern zu ziehen sind. Unklar ist außerdem, welche Auswirkungen diese Kompositi-onsfreudigkeit für das gesamte (etwa prosodisch-phonologische...
