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Analogues of the way-construction in German and Dutch: another Germanic sandwich?
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Abstract
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| This paper addresses the English way-construction [SUBJi V POSSi way OBL] and its reflexive analogues in German and Dutch. We argue that the different constructions are best compared using conceptual terms describing middle situations in the domain of autocausative motion (Kemmer 1993). Two dimensions are especially important: path traversal and goal-directedness (or telicity). It will be shown that way-constructions and their analogues can be arranged along these dimensions. Moreover, there is a general parallel tendency for newer constructions to occupy the domain of ‘path traversal’. In English, this development has resulted in the way-construction being dominant at the cost of the historically prior reflexive resultative construction. In Dutch, the weg-construction, which expresses path-traversal, competes with the more generally established Transition-to-Location Construction, which specialises in the expression of telic transition of location. In German, finally, there is no schematic Weg-construction: the entire conceptual space of autocausative motion is covered by reflexive constructions – either instantiations of a more general reflexive construction [SUBJ V sich OBL] or inherently reflexive verbs. |
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Language
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English
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Source (book)
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German and Dutch in contrast: synchronic, diachronic and psycholinguistic perspectives / Vogelaer, G. [edit.]; et al.
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Source (series)
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Konvergenz & Divergenz ; 11
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Publication
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Berlin
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de Gruyter
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2020
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ISBN
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978-3-11-066946-6
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DOI
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10.1515/9783110668476-003
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Volume/pages
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p. 47-76
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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Full text (open access)
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