The Big Yellow Book of German Verbs (2024)

The labels ‘passive’ and ‘progressive,’ as well as ‘not passive’ and ‘not progressive,’ are those most commonly adopted in English monolingual learners’ dictionaries to indicate the grammatical category of verb headwords. However, it can happen that for specific verbs very different indications are provided from one dictionary to the next, a fact which would appear to derive primarily from diverging interpretations of corpus data on the part of lexicographers, and more specifically, from diverging interpretations of which corpus occurrences qualify as passive and progressive respectively for any given verb. This will lead to the discussion of a suggested conflict of form and function in corpus lexicography. Further, it is striking that the labels passive and progressive are prioritised at the expense of other verb labels such as imperative–used very sparingly in dictionaries–simple present, perfective and first person, which are not used at all. The corpus consulted is primarily the...

Linguistics in the Netherlands, 1994

Baltistica, 2011

The paper reports on a corpus study of German light verb constructions (LVCs). LVCs come in families which exemplify systematic interpretation patterns. The paper’s aim is to account for the properties determining these patterns on the basis of a corpus study on German LVCs of the type ‘stehen unter’ NP’ (‘stand under NP’).

uni-potsdam.de

Corpus interrogation and grammatical patterns., 2014

The use of Light Verb Constructions, such as have a walk or take a decision, has received increasing amounts of attention during the last two decades. So far, corpus based research has focused on uses and frequencies of Light Verbs at various stages in the history of ...

Some aspects of the restructuring of the Germanic verb system The aim of this contribution is a comparison of the ProtoGmc. — or, simply, Germanic (Gmc.) — verbal system with the state of affairs we can reconstruct for the common PIE ancestor, in order to ascertain how conservative or innovative Gmc. has been. I will first deal with some considerations concerning reduplication in the PIE and then I will focus on the Gmc. verb system. More generally: What role does reduplication in its broadest meaning play in the Gmc. languages? Along with reduplication, preverbs are the other elements which can occur in front of the verb. They will be considered firstly from the PIE perspective and then from the Gmc. one, looking for possible differences in their use and function. The aspectual function of preverbs and/or adpositions (i.e. separable preverbs) will be compared with similar syntactic strategies in other ancient IE languages. Finally, the ablauting Gmc. system will be considered and compared with its PIE ancestor. Some general conclusions will be drawn from the comparison with the reconstructed system as well as the verbal systems attested in the ancient IE languages, which sometimes developed different typological strategies. It will be shown that Gmc. offers very conservative as well as very innovative features. The topics I am going to deal with are among the subjects proposed by the organizers of the Montreal workshop. The first topic I want to discuss is the systematization and functionalization of the ablaut in the Germanic (Gmc.) verb system. Connected to this problem are two other points which I will touch upon later, namely the loss of reduplication in the verbal system with the development of a weak preterit and the high number of unetymologized Gmc. lexemes. As a matter of fact, the ablaut also concerns a number of Gmc. verbs lacking a plausible IE etymology, as well as late loanwords such as OE scrīfan, OHG scrīban, OFrs. skrīva, OSwed. skriva " to write ". Thus the overarching problem is: how innovative and/or conservative is the Gmc. verb system?

Athanasios Karasimos

The classificatory scheme one uses and the framework of analysis one applies often skew the identification and interpretation of compounds. Traditionally compounds have been divided into synthetic (also called deverbal) such as horse-riding, house-trained and root (also called primary) compounds such as apple pie, snow ball (ten Hacken 2010; Scalise and Bisetto 2009). This classificatory scheme has influenced the understanding and analysis of compounds. The traditional classification described above has been ...

Complete preface and introduction of this forthcoming volume (Sept, 2017)

In this paper we will present an alternative classification of verbs of communication, as they are discussed in Levin (1993), Baker, C. & J. Ruppenhofer (2002) and Barðdal (2003), a.o.. More specifically, we will use recent research results (Verroens et al. 2008) on the subcategory of Verbs of Instrument of Communication (i.e. (tele)phone, wire, fax, etc.) to tackle the problem of granularity in verb typologies in general and the impact and implications it has for the classification of verbs of communication in particular. In an attempt to group those verbs that show similarities both with respect to types of constructions as well as their attested frequency, a different system of clustering will be presented on the basis of the structure of the matrix event (following Pustejovsky 1988, 1998) and the position that is assumed by the verbs in this constellation. In the first part of the paper we zoom in on the micro-level and discuss the Verbs of Instrument of Communication (VICs) as ...

Texto Livre, 2022

Verb classes are defined in lexical-semantics literature as syntactically coherent groups of verbs that also share meaning components. Thus, the investigation of verb classes leads to important insights into the syntaxsemantics interface. In this perspective, starting from Levin's (1993) foundational work for English, many authors have developed analyses for the syntactic-semantic classification of verbs in different languages. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of such studies, focusing on those that constitute online open access resources for the syntactic-semantic classification of verbs: VerbNet for English, BVI for Basque, AnCoraVerb for Spanish and Catalan, VerboWeb for Brazilian Portuguese, CROVALLEX for Croatian, and VALLEX for Czech. Thus, this paper reviews the general theoretical assumptions on verb classification shared by all the works presented, and shows the specific characteristics of each one, considering the body of data, the specific theoretical perspective, analyses and methodology, and the search engines they provide. Finally, it offers a comparative analysis of two specific verb classes (namely, image creation verbs and verbs of creation and transformation), drawing on data from the studies mentioned above. Although these resources assume a specific lexical-semantic approach for verb classification, they provide valuable data and analyses that can be useful for research in different theoretical perspectives.

John Benjamins, 2021

This is a contribution from Current Issues in Syntactic Cartography. A crosslinguistic perspective. Edited by Fuzhen Si and Luigi Rizzi.

Language Resources and Evaluation, 2008

AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE SERIES 4, 2003

In a previous paper (Zaenen & Kaplan 1995; henceforth ZK) we developed a general LFG account of West Germanic sentence structure, concentrating on the order of nominal arguments in the forefield and the middlefield. The account was based on the interactions between functional uncertainty equations, functional precedence constraints, and phrase structure rules. It proposed general rules for non-extraposed, extraposed and third-construction infinitival complements.